Reflection: #020
My Utopian
Dream of Paradise.
It seems my
dream of a utopian paradise is like wanting to touch the tip of a rainbow. If
you try to get closer to the rainbow, it stops raining—or it starts raining
harder—and the rainbow disappears. The further you try to approach it, the
further away it goes. I was not alone in
my utopian dream. Like me, millions of people dreamed of a world in peace and
full of new technological advances. But all those dreams, like my own, remained
unfulfilled.
Dreamers
with great optimism or pessimistic minds—it was the same for everyone.
Nobody
reached this utopian future of a world in peace, in silence, without the
thunder of bombs and bullets.
All news
companies would go bankrupt because there is nothing to tell—at least nothing
catastrophic. Today, temperatures in
countries that once had definite seasons, such as summer and winter, are so
different that in December, you no longer know whether it is spring or not. In
May, there will be snowfall. Once again,
I have to go back to the 1960s to discuss the scientific opinion on possible
climate change and its consequences. They said then that if the climate were to
change by half a degree Celsius in a century, it would be catastrophic: 0.5ºC
in a century! Today, we are talking about an increase of three to five degrees
more than we have been discussing. In the Kyoto Treaty, the United States did
not sign an agreement to reduce the gases emitted by vehicles—and even less by
factories. They do not want to talk about it again until 2025. The United States goes to war without moral
authority, without financial resources, without having soldiers willing to go
to war. That's what legionnaires are paid for, just like the French once did
with the Foreign Legion. At least they were well-trained.
Today, the
young are being sent from South America.
Each
immigrant from Latin America receives thirty thousand dollars to return after a
year and a half of war.
In the
contrary case, in the event of death in battle, the body is given to relatives
with the same amount of money. The
suicide of veterans—not old, but young (after one year in Iraq, you are already
a veteran)—of the war in Iraq is increasing because of the cruelty experienced.
Thousands are committing suicide, already back in the USA. They cannot bear or
process the injustice and cruelty of this war (for oil). Let us move forward. Today, I read about a new bubble in the stock
market. A bubble is an inflated ball. Artificial. The oil bubble.
A year ago,
there was talk of the profits from real estate in the US. Today, you buy it,
and tomorrow you sell it for almost fifty percent more.
In other
words, in practice, you take a hundred percent loan to buy a property: you buy
something for a hundred thousand dollars, and a few months later, you sell it
for a hundred twenty, thirty, or fifty thousand dollars more. Now you cancel
your bank loan—that is, you pay it back—and open a savings account because you
have earned thirty thousand dollars. Now you play this game again—and not just
you. No. The Canadians bought everything
they could with so much lust.
Latinos,
immigrants without permanent jobs, are encouraged to build or buy their homes.
Investors with significant hedge funds spent their clients' money—they don't
even know where the fund manager is taking it. European banks, the English,
even the Chinese, put their savings or borrowed capital in the hands of these
managers to buy property. It's called a
bubble. It exploded! Investors around the world suffered considerable losses in
value. In some cases, investors' savings dropped by half their actual value.
America may have lost all or most of its middle class. That means whoever was
on the middle-class level is now struggling to survive. Their homes lost value
because there were no more buyers!
Unemployment and inflation in the US, like never before, will be the
future.
Why, in the
middle of the outbreak of this bubble, does the president go worldwide to make
propaganda for biodiesel?
... (To
start another bubble!) Biodiesel is
manufactured from agricultural products used as food for humans and can be
consumed by humans. Mainly corn, soybeans, rape, and sunflowers are used. Does
this deliberately reduce the supply of food to increase the price of
agricultural products?
I think so.
Farmers were almost completely technically bankrupt.
The US has
no money. Yes, it can print money, but money without value. Printed paper,
nothing more. Granting more subsidies to
farmers was already economically impossible and politically prohibited by
international treaties.
Now,
everyone, from everywhere, pays three times as much for every product that
comes from agriculture: flour, meat, milk, oil. The whole world is now paying
the cost of the war in Iraq. More people are dying in Iraq every day than in
decades before.
There is no
drinking water, no medicine, no food for the Iraqi people.
But for two
hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, three packed daily meals have been
transported from the United States to Iraq. Iraqi farmers were forbidden to use
maize seeds and traditional wheat. Genetically modified seeds (which is not bad
in itself) were brought from the United States and sold to farmers at a high
price. At the same time, the sowing of self-produced seeds was made
punishable. What progress! The paradise of my dreams—where did it
disappear to?
And why
didn't it stay in 1980 and wait for me there?
Today, we
were on our way—I and the rest of the people on this Earth—we were so
optimistically heading toward the future, to be happy forever.
Why did the
future not begin in 1980? Twenty years would have been enough to prepare for
the future!
What year
will we choose now to enter the future and live the utopia of the sixties?
2030 or
2050? But in 2050, the oil will run out for good.
Is this the
beginning of the future, or would it be the definite end of this desired
future? But before that comes this
magical year 2012, where the world ends! One more concern.
I do not
fear this as much as I fear entire nations without food. They will create a
tsunami such as we have never seen before. People in need are dangerous.
Man caused
hunger, not nature. If nature joins man to destroy the world, then we are in
big trouble.
Sadly, all
the plagues I have described—and most likely to come—are human-made.
We are
still experiencing disasters not caused by nature.
The wrath
of Mother Earth has been inflamed, but so far, they are only threats, not yet a
massive rebellion. It's just like a sigh
or a little cough.
A tsunami,
sad as it is, is nothing compared to what the Earth can do. The plagues of Revelation are all human-made
and are released one by one. And the limit of what man is capable of enduring
will probably be exceeded.
What do we
tell our young people? That sadly, we are not able to cope with the course of
humanity. Let the young take the helm as soon as they are ready and change the
ship's course. Greetings, and let us
fight together for a better future for our young people!
Don Joseph Bauer
http://marsandufosmysteries.blogspot.com/2010/01/war-had-world-countless.html
http://marsandufosmysteries.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-another-twenty-years-have-passed.html
http://marsandufosmysteries.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-progress-part-1-4.html
