Has humanity jumped the shark?
Henry Winkler is blissfully unaware that the massive failure in scriptwriting that led to this moment would forever live in infamy.
I try to be positive, and am a lot more successful at it than I used to be.
But since 2020, it’s just been one bad thing after another on the world stage.
The climate seems to have hit the point-of-no-return, with insane week-long record-breaking heat waves hitting as far north as the North Pole, hurricanes and torrential downpours destroying miles and miles of towns across the world.
Fascists trying to take over the US government — and the party that supports them on the brink of winning the House of Representatives, even after televised hearings showing what these traitors did. Not to mention fascists taking over or making significant in-roads in country after country.
A nuclear power run by a de facto dictator invades a neighboring country and repeatedly threatens to use nuclear weapons, with nuclear-power NATO countries not-so-secretly funneling billions in military aid to stop them.
A global pandemic is still raging, with millions already dead, millions more with life-long health issues resulting from it, but large percentages of the rest of us just pretending that it’s over and running the large risk of another impending deadly winter.
People are dying because large corporations responsible for the failure of water infrastructure refuse to provide people with drinking water, people going hungry because supermarket chains are openly bragging about raising prices to insane levels and blaming it on the pandemic and inflation.
And last but not least: this exists —
I joked about candy corn syrup being proof that humanity has jumped the shark. But as I think about it more, I’m seriously beginning to think it’s all downhill from here for humanity’s so-called civilization. Too many things going wrong at the same time, and little to no way of changing them anytime soon. And we’re going to bring the rest of the planet down with us.
Don’t get me wrong — we can’t give up hope in our very real power to make positive change. But I think it’s short-sighted to not see the signs of massive, catastrophic events happening in the near future that will cause even more harm, death, and destruction than we already have now.
And almost all of it was preventable. Now, the fight I think has to be to save as much as we can locally and across borders with like-minded people before it’s too late. Positive changes, even when they’re small compared to the enormity of the problem, are still positive changes. If there was ever a time for Dr. King’s “fierce urgency of now,” this is the time — for doing our damnedest to leave future generations the best world we can.
