October 8 2018
So Yeats observed. But, what things? Is it the civility that allows a society to function in a coherent and productive way? Is it the political process that fosters cooperation in the governing of a nation? Is it the tolerance and understanding that allows you to have your beliefs and opinions, and at the same time for me to have mine? The land of the free? Liberty and justice for all?
What falls apart? Perhaps it is the infrastructure built by the lowest bidder. Or maybe it is cities that crumble and rot. Perhaps it is natural processes subverted by out of control growth and rapacious greed. The astonishingly beautiful natural world ruined with plastic and carbon emissions, or sold out to destruction.
What? An aging body that once not so long ago was sturdy and energetic. A mind once teeming with a rich assortment of images, now struggling to bring anything to awareness.
Here is an abundant fecund planet housing a species intent on destruction and chaos. It illustrates the tragedy of the commons. The sooner we are gone the better. In the aftermath of the Anthropocine, in a hot world of water and jungle, very little of what we know will have survived. Crocodiles and cockroaches, if anything.
BB Blog 