We only know the world we’re born into. Most of us were bored to tears in our history classes in school. At least I was. All that stuff that happened before my life began was like so many fairy tales. How could it apply to me? My concern, like all of us, is the here and now, the immediate present, this is what’s real, that which is happening NOW.

I was born about 3 years before the US got attacked by Japan, so to me, World War II is real and relevant to my life. To everyone born after the war was over, that is the world they were born into, one where there was no World War II. Likewise for those born after JFK was assassinated or after the Viet Nam war. Events that happened prior to our lives might as well never have happened because they never impacted us. Or so we think.

The truth is that everything that ever happened in the past, literally everything, has created this moment. You would probably not have been born if the Romans hadn’t invaded England. Everything would be different. All existence today was created by all the yesterdays.

My point is that we don’t see much beyond ourselves, not in terms of the world around us and not in terms of our very real and solid connection with the flow of events. If we want to know where we’re going, we have to be able to see where we’ve been before we came into being.

This is by way of following up on my immediately previous post. AOW left a comment that it was all doomsday scare talk. Not really. I was just following the flow of time. When I was born there was less than a third of the people on Earth that there are now, and then the War whittled that number down considerably. We humans have certainly made up for lost time though.

I’ve watched our own population become nearly overwhelming and all the destruction to our society that it’s brought, and seeing where that’s going is simplicity itself. The prediction by our government that Mexico will soon become a failed state is a likely one, and the cause of Mexico’s problems is overpopulation. That’s why over 30 million Mexicans have already flooded into the US. Their own country can’t support that many.

But that’s not just happening here, it’s happening everywhere. In fact, Americans are bailing out of the US, moving to Canada and anywhere else they can find more room. If we weren’t suffering from overpopulation we wouldn’t have had another 500,000 people line up this month alone for unemployment benefits. It won’t be long before our Employment Insurance systems collapses.

Just because something didn’t happen within your own personal span of years doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect you. It does. Everything that ever happened does, and the events of a 1000 years ago and more will continue to affect you and your children and their children for 1000s of years yet to come, and you’d be wise to take a good long look at the path that time has laid out for us all.

I learned as a boy that knowledge is survival. At one time you could go through your life from one end to the other, blithely unaware of what we like to call History, and probably do about as well as the next guy. That’s all coming to an end. How it’s going to end, I really don’t know, but I can see the flow of time, and the way our world is now is not the way it’s going to be, and soon. Look at it. Do yourself a favor.

In the guardian.co.uk today comes the most two sided story I ever read in my life.

American teenagers are increasingly facing prosecution as sex offenders as a result of the rapidly spreading practice of sending explicit photos of themselves by mobile phone — a trend known as “sexting”. In the latest case, three teenage girls in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, who sent nude self portraits, and the three male classmates who received the images, have all been served with child pornography charges. The girls have been charged with manufacturing and disseminating child pornography while the boys are accused of possessing it. In Rochester, New York, a boy aged 16 faces seven years in jail for circulating an image of a girlfriend to friends.

First, this sort of open and explicit sexual behavior among children never used to happen and was never a problem. Kids kept their bodies to themselves and certainly never paraded their nakedness in front of the opposite sex. So the fact that they are now, and increasingly so, speaks directly to the pressures on them to seek gratification, to assert their sexuality, to reach for independence, to emulate their Hollywood idols, to rebel against their elders… the list goes on.

When sexuality is pumped at all of us continually in our media, especially television, through blatant ads for Viagra to have sex longer and more often, ads for pills that make penises larger and make a point about how happy the users are for getting greater sexual pleasure, with Levis ads showing a young couple yanking off their clothes to have sex…

How do we then expect our kids to react? Puberty brings on a heavy hormone rush as bodies fill out and urges mount in intensity. So are we adults helping them learn to cope with this until their brains catch up with their bodies? Hell no, we’re exploiting their sexuality to sell them stuff, we’re encouraging exactly the kind of behavior, for profit, that we should be doing our best to discourage with wise counsel.

Then, secondly, after they do what we have pushed them into doing, we call them Sex Offenders and put them in prison and destroy their lives forever.

Taking away their cell phone cameras isn’t the answer but it would be a good start. They don’t need cameras in their cell phones and expecting them to always behave responsibly is silly.

However.

The burden really is on our legal system to back off and take a deep breath. We just can’t go and put kids in prisons for years for sharing nude pictures of each other and then make them register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives for showing off their private parts to each other. We have taught our children to be openly sexual, like it or not. Now we can’t stand back all self-righteous and aghast and condemn them for doing what comes naturally. Either we change our laws to reflect reality, and I mean Right Now, or we might as well just put a razor wire fence clear around the U.S. and all of us wear orange jump suits with Federal Prisoner stenciled in black on the back, because we’re all going to end up in prison anyway if we don’t get a grip on ourselves.

We shoved Sexual Freedom down our kids throats. They took it and ran with it. What else did we expect?

Now. I know how to solve this. Reverse history. The reason this was never a problem before is because there were never so many people as there are now. The more of us there are crammed together the more aberrant, hostile and anti-social we become. Back in the 60′s someone did a study on rats, allowing their population to increase unchecked, in a limited amount of living space. The more they got jammed together, the more they acted like humans. Homosexuality and violence became commonplace.

The fix for the problem is to eliminate the excess population over 35,000 in every large city in the world, and reduce the population of every average city to no more than 5000. No community allowed of over 5000 people other than cities like Los Angeles, New Delhi and so forth. This is an achievable goal, and this is why:

Once every century, at the turn of each century, stories of apocalypse and prophets of Armageddon would be all the rage, and quickly pass as the century mark passed. 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, all had their religious nuts who would prophecy the collapse of humanity. But once the fateful date passed and nothing happened, it was forgotten for another century. Now it’s different.

Now, and since before the year 2000, the prophecies of doom, Armageddon, global disaster, have gone on and on. We see them nearly nightly on our TV, hear them on the radio, people are writing books left and right about the way they think we’re all going to die, by a comet strike, a cosmic ray or neutron pulse from a distant star, an ice age, nuclear war………

This is because we’re overpopulated and instinctually, we know that being so will doom us. Our population is growing unchecked. The planet is maxxing out on how many humans it can feed, the oceans are dying – they have been for years now, as Jacques Cousteau kept telling us back in the 1960s. If our ocean actually died, and all the organisms in it began decaying, the oxygen the process would consume would asphyxiate the planet. Everything would die. Everything. If we heat the planet up too much and melt all the ice, the actual dry land mass of the planet would be reduced by over a third, and that’s the part that most of us live on and grow our food on.

We have a death wish as a species. We know, down inside, that we can’t control our own numbers and that to live we have to die, by the billions, and pretty soon, too. The only way the human race can survive is for most of us to die. It’s also the only way for everything else on the planet to have a chance of survival, because if we don’t endure a massive extermiination of ourselves pretty soon, we’ll take the whole thing down with us.

This is why we’re going to do it. We just keep hoping an asteroid will do it for us first. We’d much rather have a big chunk of rock hit somewhere and plunge us into darkness for a year or two and kill most of us off that way, than have to do the job ourselves, which is why the asteroid doomsday scenario is so popular. We don’t want a nuclear war, we just want most of us to die, and this way we could blame it on God instead of us having to carry the shame for millennia of having poisoned the Earth with fallout. But nuke we will, when our population reaches critical mass, and it soon will.

The hottest prediction going is for Nov. 23, 2012, you’ve probably heard all about that one, how the Aztec calendar ends on that day because the world does, and there are other corroborating prophecies from such as Nostradamus and Mother Shipman, and Bible and other prophecies. Seems like as good a date as any to me, that’s nearly 5 years away from now and really, it’s a toss-up whether we make it that long or not.

Excerpts from an article by Jon Nadler:

July 17, 2008 “Chaos and fear never sleep. This morning the first news story I read was a piece from the Los Angeles Daily News about police threatening to beat down and arrest any “disorderlies” trying to get their money out of a failed IndyMac bank branch in Pasadena, CA. Apparently, after being turned away Monday, customers began lining up at 1:30 a.m. the next morning to take out any cash they had in excess of the $100,000 maximum insured by the FDIC. The scene was reportedly emotional and tense. At another IndyMac branch in Encino, the police were called in after line jumpers threatened to turn an ordinary bank run into a full-on riot.

Yes, it’s here. Welcome to the Depression. No, don’t drop whatever it is you’re doing. Don’t get up. It’s not going anywhere. It will wait. It’s just going to sit over here in the corner and read a magazine while you do whatever it is you need to do.

Despite the seeming enormity of it in retrospect, the stock market crash of 1929 barely even registered for most Americans. The day before the crash, Time Magazine’s Oct. 28, 1929 issue was business as usual; national stories, Washington stories, a review of the newest plays opening in Manhattan, a piece on a cat washing contest in Kingston, NC.

A week later, in the wake of the stock plunge, the cover story was as far from a piece on crashing share prices as you could get – a profile of a man named Samuel Insull, the “financial father of the Chicago opera.”

It took a little more than two full years, Dec. 11, 1931, before the New York Bank of the United States would collapse, and the cover of Time was reserved for Dr. James Henry Breasted, “foremost Egyptologist of the U. S.”

On January 22, 1932 things turned desperate. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was formed to dole out government aid to banks, railroads, farm mortgage associations and all manner of failed business enterprises. Time’s cover story for this day was on playwright Philip Barry’s 11th play, “The Animal Kingdom.”

By the end of the following year, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had squeezed the Emergency Banking Act through Congress, signed the Economy Act, the Credit Act, the Reforestation Relief Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Farm Act, the Federal Securities Act, the National Cooperative Employment Service Act, the Home Owner’s Loan Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, created the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Civil Works Administration.”

This time around, there’s no sudden stock market collapse and instead of wild inflation such as we’ve been seeing, the value of a dollar actually increased, simply because no one had any. Now, it’s about oil, overpopulation and inflation, outsourcing and moving our jobs and factories overseas. Unemployment, just as in the Great Depression, is causing massive mortgage failures nationally, which is forcing the closure of our two largest banking and lending institutions.

 Now we have an oil-based global economy instead of a dollar-based national one, and the rising demand for oil can only drive down the comparative value of the dollar. So far, our answer to that has been to print more dollars, making each one worth less than before.

Everything cycles, and prosperity will eventually come again. Right now, however, our economy is about to take an even bigger hit than it has already, as prices continue to soar at the same time that wages remain static and joblessness increases.

A depression isn’t a possibility, or pending, or will happen soon if we don’t act. It’s here.

Blue-suited Chinese thugs in downtown London.

Well, They Are Famous For Their Terrible Cuisine so it should come as no surprise that the UK is serving up a lot of Fresh Hot Crow to their oppressed citizens. The latest meal is the presence of 30 Chinese paramilitary elite thugs who made sure no one got near the Olympic torch as it was carried through London, and they did so by brutally attacking anyone who came too close.

This obscene degrading of British national sovereignty was apparently set up by Scotland Yard, with the Chinese thugs having been allowed into the UK under “tourist” visas.

Kudos to the British people though: The Daily Telegraph has learnt that organisers, including Chinese officials, discussed “pulling out” of the day-long relay after just a few hours, as police fought running battles with wave after wave of anti-China protesters.

Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, warned Beijing yesterday that he would not allow the Chinese thugs to guard the Olympic torch when it is carried through Canberra this month. He said that their behavior would not be repeated in his capital.

“All security, repeat all security, is provided by Australians,” he told The Times during a visit to London. The Olympic torch is due to be carried through Canberra on April 24 and is likely to attract anti-Chinese demonstrations similar to those seen in London, Paris and this morning in San Francisco.

The beginning of the relay in San Francisco is hours away as I write this, and I can find no mention of the possible participation of the Chinese thugs. There will be a two-and-a-half-hour relay along this city’s waterfront, involving six miles of pavement, 79 runners and untold scores of law enforcement officials.

Major protests by those upset with China’s human rights record and recent crackdown in Tibet are expected and even supported by the city’s Board of Supervisors, which voted on April 1 to condemn China’s human rights record. Chris Daly, the supervisor who wrote the resolution, went further on Monday, posting a blog entry calling on followers to “build on the message that’s been delivered” in Paris and London. That’s pretty straightforward and has upset the Chinese no end.

The San Francisco Police Department canceled days off for patrol officers and called in state and federal agencies and officers from nearby cities to help patrol the relay route. A no-fly zone was established overhead, the Coast Guard beefed up its fleet and Bay Area police planned on a pair of motorized water scooters patrolling the waterways. It’s going to look like a war zone instead of the celebration it’s always been before.

“I can only confirm that the route is dynamic,” said Nathan Ballard, a city spokesman. “We got monks tomorrow, Desmond Tutu and Richard Gere here today, and a nude torch relay in the works,” he said, “And I have no hope of leaving here without tripping over hundreds of members of the foreign media. I’ll tell you one thing: it won’t be boring.”

Yep. A nude torch relay. Only in San Francisco would you expect to see some of the torch bearers running NAKED! Wah hah hah, I wonder how China will like that?

Well, unlike England, San Francisco is famous for its fine cuisine. It’s going to be fascinating as all Hell to watch what they dish up today.