A New Atlantis

     I apologize for not writing in here for a longer than usual while.  I've been active, breathing, eating, sleeping, making a movie, working my regular job, conversing with friends and acquaintances.  I've been waiting for the weather to improve.  Gray skies, occasional direct sunlight.  I wake up every morning, lift the shade by my bed and see grayness far beyond the bare maple tree that grows by my house.  This time of year tends towards this weather, I'm not surprised.  It's normal weather for Wisconsin in March and April.  In future seasons, climate change will give us a different program, I'm sure of it.
     I read some information on world population trends.  By 2050, it's estimated that there will be nine billion, seven hundred million people on this planet.  Populations in Africa and Asia will continue to rise sharply, while Europe, for instance, will stay pretty much steady.  The United States of America will rise in population quite a bit, and Nigeria will become the third most populous nation on Earth, after India and the People's Republic of China.
     The current ruling class (Baby Boomers), will, by 2050, be very old or dead.  Their policies and worldwide mismanagement (motivated by their greed and irrepressible, pathological need for control over others, i.e. the masses) will continue to shape world societies even after Trump and Hillary Clinton have turned into skeletons.  Millennials and those coming after them will have to work with and adapt to new conditions never encountered before by humanity: risen sea levels inundating heavily populated coastlines, fresh water scarcity, air quality severely compromised in cities, massive losses of animals, including bees, frogs and toads, endangered mammals, sea life including coral reefs.
     If war-making continues to be as popular and lucrative a practice for the ruling classes as it is now, developments in technological warfare, with new and newer weaponry, will make the remainder of this century worse than the twentieth in terms of atrocities and daily violence committed against innocents.  The old playbook, since it tends to work, will probably be used: create enemies using propaganda, manufacture crises, tax for militaries and screw the poor.  The nature of the evil of the current plutocratic system with its bought and controlled political parties (I speak of America, but this arrangement exists in many nations because it works, for the rulers) is obvious to comprehend, yet I don't encounter many "Average Joes and Josephines" who give me the impression they think much about the true nature of the evil policies that fuck them.
     We're told, for instance, by no less a personage than Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations, that there's something wrong about the world's moral positions on the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.  In American political circles, it's hard to ever hear a politician condemn the Netanyahu government's murderous policies toward Palestinians.  This concern for the plight of the Palestinians, a feeling shared by most of the peoples of the world (including many Americans, including myself) is completely ignored by Washington politicians and corporate news media.  It extends to the lack of interest in the U.S. military machine's tendency to slaughter civilians, to bomb indiscriminately, even while claiming purity by using such misleading terms as "precision bombing," which is like saying, "precision explosion."
     The violent and coercive behavior of a large powerful nation towards less powerful nations has a negative effect, ultimately, on the large powerful nation.  I've noticed that since 9/11 my fellow Americans have become sickeningly uninterested in the world outside their borders.  Trump's anti-immigration and anti-Muslim policies, forewarned by him during his campaign, settled on willing minds and hearts--ordinary people who have seen their country fucked over by plutocrats and the donor class ever since people like Ronald Reagan enacted his vicious class war against the middle class and poor.
     The war that began on 9/11, still with us as then Vice President Dick Cheney hoped all along, has been "a war on terror," a "war against violent extremism," a "global war on terror."  Now, urged by Democrats and the intelligence community, the war appears to be morphing into a new cold war against Russia.  Still, countries bombed by Bush and Obama continue to be bombed by Trump, as they would've been by Hillary Clinton.  The ruling class in America wants this war to go on forever, much as Orwell postulated in Nineteen Eighty-Four, wherein the nation of Oceania is always at war, a macro-pathological condition that provides employment, purpose, profits for the ruling class and arms manufacturers.  It's something to do, like building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border--it's pointless and a horrible thing to do, but it means jobs.  It harms the environment, abuses Latinos caught in a terrible system subject to the whims of a distant government run by an unstable power-monger named Donald Trump.
     I for one don't believe all the anti-Russia hype, especially as it's obsessively focused upon by MSNBC, CNN, and the Washington Post.  It's propaganda based on few facts.  Russian agents and assets tried to fuck with the U.S. 2016 election.  I accept that, but no credible evidence exists, yet, that their meddling did anything to guarantee Trump's victory.  Hillary Clinton royally fucked herself up, even though she got more votes than her main opponent.  She and her supporters in television punditry won't admit, whether they know it or not, that the American people and a majority of the electoral college read her as an establishment figure with no new ideas, no willingness to appeal to the needs of the majority of voters, all of whom are poor or in the middle class.  Our politicians don't represent us.  It's like having a parent who doesn't morally support or offer encouragement for your dreams of success in some profession.  Paul Ryan, Hillary Clinton, corporation-bought politicians, are in it for themselves.  There is no possible positive outcome with these motherfuckers.
     Sane ways of dealing with the world must be found.  Necessity, I think, will make bloom some solutions to some of humanity's terrible problems in 2050 and later on.  By then, as I mentioned, the disgusting pieces of shit who help create our problems now and do nothing positive to help, will be decrepit or dead, or maybe fresh as daisies due to longevity drug treatments.  If I were a powerful and evil fuckbag like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump I'd want to live for a long fucking time, so I could put off the trip to Hell for as long as possible.

                                                                                 Vic Neptune