End of the Line

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Stan Bernard

End of the Line
May 6, 2003

Without question the 20th century will be looked back on as a period of unparalleled growth. From a consumers point of view we can now get more computing power in our laptops than placed man on the moon, and sadly NASA can no longer get us there or anywhere else!

We have the ability to store information in such manner that without a functioning technological infrastructure the information is effectively lost. Solar power languishes while hydrogen fuel cells and wind energy make slow inroads on the alternate energy fronts. If a man has a solar powered house... what can you sell him? Sunlight is free..! We are a mixed bag of achievements, no longer content to consume celebrity, under the guise of "reality TV" we consume ourselves.. What are we really creating that’s new? Not just a re worked cheaper faster product? Add a chip to it and its new? We are balanced on the tip of an upside down pyramid.. the tip represents the narrowing of our options for sustainable life and resource use on this planet. Concentrations of wealth and corporate consolidations are forming a so called "well curve" with the extremely poor on one end and the extremely rich on the other, with very little in between.. Extinction of the middle class in America who'da thunk it! We are effectively extinct now we just don't know it yet. Where do we all go from here, what’s the next big leap? It cant be a technological leap... the next big move for mankind is spiritual.. Where that will take us is difficult to say.. I just know that we have to make that transition or the technology itself will overwhelm the planet and us along with it.

A large part of the earth's population faces nothing less than outright extinction, whether through, famine, disease or war, natural or otherwise precipitated. Perhaps that’s the way it has to be every 10,000 years a fall, there’s no one around to point the way, but on the side of the road the signposts are there for all to read.. Coming Soon, the end of the line.

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