Safe haven

I very much like my office today. Feels like a safe haven from the chaos of the world, though of course it isn't. But there are times when self-hallucination is acceptable. This is one of those times.

I have this sick feeling that the Egyptian "rebellion" is going to go the way of the Chinese and Iranian rebellions, put down with military might. By the gods, I hope I'm wrong.

The thing is, when you live long enough, and see this pattern repeated and repeated again and again, it gets very old. It's appalling how little we learn from history.

It's appalling how little we even own up to our own actual history.

Irony upon irony, none of this matters much in the long run if Nature decides to do what Nature does and has us reap what we've sown. I don't know much but I do know this: Nature wins. And she's getting pissed at our betrayal of her.

Maybe it's a horse race: will we destroy ourselves before Nature gets around to it? I'm not taking any bets.

I'm just glad I'm old. Man, I'm glad I'm old -- both for what I was fortunate enough to experience in the past and what I will be fortunate enough to miss in the future.

But, in a shorter less morbid view, this IS a zero-sum universe, after all, which means there is a lot of positive energy around to balance out all the negatives, and at times like these wallowing in positive energy is not the worst response. It's like those musicians playing as they went down with the Titanic. Good choice.