Not the end of the World

Growing up in a big city it was commonplace to see people on street corners proclaiming the end has come.

As a child, I remember the fear it instilled in people and as a young child, the propagandist did not convince me that the world was going to end.

One such religious organizations back in the 60`s declared the world would end in the New Year causing wide spread panic and when the great black out occurred it only reinforced such wide spread beliefs.

Many believe the world would end during the Cuban crisis in 1962

Everyone was waiting for the red button to be pushed and digging backyard bomb shelters was the in thing to do in the event of a nuclear disaster.

It was common to hear air raid sirens go off and drills take place throughout the city and schools.

The Y2K was another popular topic that dominated mainstream media and culture.

A local power outage sent people scrambling thinking the end was upon them…

I cannot understand why religion would use fear and claim to have the ability to predict the end of the world. Religion should not be used to create fear and uncertainty in people but again fear is an age old tactic and a great motivator used to control the followers …politicians and media relations often resort to the same tactics to exploit and control the public at large ..

Humans by their very nature and behaviour are very predictable and easy to manipulate…

To promote an agenda and create a diversion and a stir to refocus just use one sector of society as an example such as the poverty class.

Start pumping the propaganda that the poor are not deserving of social programs they are lazy shiftless creatures.

Sit back as the idea snowballs and it now becomes mainstream thinking as people incorporate such thoughts as their own much like the term viral videos…. anyway off topic again but that`s how easy it is to control people as most are followers and very few leaders ..Actually at the moment there are no real charismatic leaders globally looking to create or foster a better society.

We have renegade bureaucrats running the machine we call civil society corporations that are above the law and lawless politicians …

So will the world end as we know it?

High probability the world will end because as a people we have done nothing to slow down our consumption of fossils fuels, consumerism, and pollution of the air, soil and water….

What happen in Japan with the nuclear meltdown should have been a wake up call…

We allow corporations to modify and genetically alter our environment we continue to buy such products and complain about it we demand electricity but are not willing to make any great sacrifices to change

And that my dear readers will eventually lead to our demise and the end of the planet, as we know it…just not tomorrow

may 21 2011

slatester may 21 2011