All our lives we've heard that humans would continue to evolve and improve as time went on...we'd live longer, get smarter and figure things out. We were told that our parents worked hard so that we could have a better life (which was true back in the day), and their parents had worked hard so they could have a better life and so on.
I remember reading an article that said that if present trends continued, we'd begin to look like the Greys, with large heads to accommodate our bigger brains, and spindly limbs because robots did our work for us because we'd become too intelligent to have to work. Crazy.
When I was briefly going to Auburn, Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, gave a talk. It was a pretty big deal. He screened the pilot episode of Star Trek with a different Kirk, and then showed a reel of bloopers. That was a treat, and it was before bloopers were a thing.
I have to mention this: there was a scene where the Enterprise was under attack and was being tossed about. For those scenes they had a set that would tilt, and a bunch of guys would move it around. In this scene they tilted it too far and everybody started to fall.
They were grabbing the console and trying not to fall down. Spock grabbed Nurse Chapel from behind, and his hands landed naturally on her breasts. As long as they were there he decided to give them a good squeeze. Everyone lost it laughing. I'll never forget that.
Anyway Mr. Roddenberry talked about the future of humanity in the most glowing terms. He said that by the year 2000, which seemed like an eternity away at the time, we'd have gotten our collective shit together. We'd have solved hunger, ended wars and such and everybody would be holding hands and singing Kumbaya. Did we make it? Sorry Gene.
Almost a decade ago I was talking to a friend about the future of humanity and where he thought it was going. He was optimistic, pointing out the fact that lifespans were increasing and such. It fit right along with what we've been told.
My view was a bit more pessimistic. It didn't please me to feel that way but I was being real, based on my looking into things over the past two decades-plus. I'd read things and even talked to two doctors who thought that lifespans were about to start getting shorter. I and others predicted that years ago, and it's come true.
What about our mental state? If you ask me it's getting bleak. Not only are people losing the ability to speak and write correctly, they're also losing their minds over nothing. Nobody has to tell us that.
Think back to the "Kol-emm-bine" bang-bang. Remember how shocked the whole world was? It was almost unimaginable back then. These days we have, what, about one a week? It's like, "Oh, another skule shuuting. It's a shame. What's for dinner?" It's empathy burnout.
These days we accept the most vile, dark, sick and Satanic movies, music videos and award shows as "just entertainment." People are getting away with things that a scant decade ago they'd have been strung up for. Think about it.
And don't get me started on how people think we can change our entire physiology by how we "identify," and how formerly rational people go along with it. Have Biology books been rewritten to include this new information? I guess so, since they're teaching it in schools, and even in preschool, where kids shouldn't be exposed to ANY of that blasphemy. It's a sin, and the people who perpetuate it know this. If there's an afterlife, good luck.
We truly live in Clown World (insert Calliope music here). "Step right up and see the freak show...oh wait, it's normal now." Carnival barkers will soon be out of work.
Don't get me wrong...I wanted humanity to get better. I desperately wanted it. And there are still lots of beautiful, kind-hearted, loving and intelligent people but they're becoming the minority, and are mostly old-timers. Most young people today...forget it. Again just look around. If these kids are our future, we're scrod. Even drugs are more evil these days. It's incredible.
So what's the deal? Why aren't we getting better as a species, as we were told would happen? I believe it's just a part of the bad guys' plan. Either it's only a series of incredible coincidences, or the Good Book predicted every bit of this.
Is there anything we can do? As unpopular as this will sound these days, my advice would be to get right with God, and I wouldn't dilly-dally. In the end, the good guys win, no matter what our antihero society tells us. Don't be left behind. Have a nice day!
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