09-23-2017, 12:12 PM
(09-22-2017, 11:42 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: > Honestly, I hope Kim does something that can outrage people so we
> can take care of him.
(09-22-2017, 12:33 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > Famous last words.
(09-22-2017, 04:16 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > What are you hoping? That the crisis war can be put off forever?
> You must know that's impossible.
I'm an extremely fatalistic person. So when I wrote "famous last
words," I was saying that the outcome is going to be far worse than
either of us is hoping, and therefore there isn't much point in hoping
for anything. What's going to happen is going to happen, and hoping
for something else is just going to lead to disappointment.
Almost every day for 15 years, I've been writing about some of the
most horrific human behavior -- not something in a fictional novel or
in an episode of the gruesome tv show Criminal Minds -- but things
that are actually happening to millions of people every day. And
things aren't getting better. They get worse and worse very day.
Doing this for 15 years has had an enormous effect on me. Writing
about Generational Dynamics has brought me nothing but grief and
unhappiness, but also a dark, obsessive fascination from watching all
the predictions come true, and also an almost incomprehensible
uncontrollable compulsion to keep doing it. In fact, as I think back
over my life, dating back to my college days, I can see that
everything that I've done in my life has been leading me inexorably to
this role of a prophet. I no longer believe in free will, certainly
not for populations or generations, but also even for individuals.
It's as if someone else wrote out a script for my life that I'm forced
to follow, and it's now nearly the end of Act III and the final
dénouement, whatever that may be.
I'm a person who fits into an ancient template. It's quite possible
that I know more about what's going on in the world than almost anyone
else in the world. But that's not a blessing or a gift. It's always
been a curse to everyone it's happened to. I'm following a tragic
script, just like the mythical Cassadra or the biblical Jeremiah, or
even Winston Churchill -- though Churchill did well because of people
skills that I don't have.
So what am I hoping for? I know what's going to happen to the world,
so I have no hopes for the world. My only hopes are for myself. As
events unfold, I'm hoping that I'll be killed quickly and painlessly.
