And What Rough Beast?

Julian, most people know better than to ask me the time. I'll explain how to build a watch.

Maybe I see conspiracies where none exist or maybe I've read one too many Taylor Caldwell novels. Or Orwell or Huxley?

I do think we could eventually be owned by one huge conglomerate if we don't wake up and pay attention. It's just a feeling, nothing I can prove. I watch the mergers, the hostile takeovers, all that stock market stuff I don't begin to understand. I can also envision one world-wide religion; similar to the religious right in this country and controlled by the state (the huge conglomerate). I can envision being owned by another country because of the enormous amount of borrowing we've done to pay for the boondoggle in Iraq.

I see people going hungry, homeless, and without medical care in this country. Our educational system is failing the children, mortality rates among infants is much too high, our elders are abandoned.

I also think that we'll end up destroying the only world we have if we don't make a turnaround soon. Again, I have no facts to support this except what I read (especially the weather reports).

I don't think the rough beast is religious although some religions are certainly jumping on board. I'm a Christian (of sorts - Dobson, Robertson, and Falwell have consigned me to hell) and this certainly isn't my idea of Christianity. I think it's an evil thing born of greed and nurtured in apathy. I believe divisiveness, bigotry, and hatred are encouraged. Some cliches become cliches for a reason; divide and conquer is one of them.

Maybe I should quote "not with a bang, but a whimper". There is so much evil in the world these days, I don't even know how to begin. The rough beast sums it up as well as anything.

Another blogging friend had quoted Yeats, I came back with "Song of Wandering Angus" which got me to thinking about "The Second Coming", not for the first time.

I can't explain it any better than that and I don't feel like this all the time. I do see glimmers of hope.

I don't always make sense, even to me. It's just a general feeling of depression and an anger at the waste of humanity and resources caused by greed.