Imagine...A new age!

This is a picture of a large 4 segment painting I exhibited in 1988 (it currently resides in California) called SIGN OF THE TIMES and it is one of a series of works that grew out of observations made whilst walking Durban's docklands looking for subject matter. What I saw were indicators of a potential mass exodus by a significant section of the South African middle class (perhaps for valid, perhaps racist reasons, I choose not to argue the rights and wrongs of motivation, merely to observe the phenomena).
The period was just post-PW Botha's 'Rubicon' speech and during the peak of the 'state of emergency'.
As it turned out the signs proved prophetic, and large portions of the South African middle-class (white, brown & mixed) are now a new diaspora.

There appears to be another set of 'signs' converging, a 'perfect storm' perhaps and to mention just a small cross section of issues, they include:

• The fundamentalist environmentalists and their desire to 'save' the planet by manipulating the population and embracing an essentially misanthropic agenda. Top of their hate list appears to be the Judeo-Christian worldview.
• The fanatical Islamist tide which has metamorphosed from a mere 'stateless terror threat' into the 'Arab Spring'; that is a capturing of Nationhood entities, including the many national armoury's (some 50,000 missing ground to air missiles from Libya alone). The fact that the world is awash with unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction is a troubling development that potentially sets the stage for significant escalations in 'terrorist' atrocities.
• A concerted left-wing attack on freedom of speech, particularly on that which challenges or contradicts 'political correctness'. The desire to 'suspend the democratic process' in order to push through unpopular legislation and the merciless ridiculing and  litigating of opponents makes speaking out a dangerous and expensive decision.
• In Australia the current government is undermining the economy for reasons as yet unclear but control via dependence on  government largess is steadily increasing.
• There is a systematic and concerted attack on what constitutes a family and the very concept of the family unit.
• There is a push by elites for a one world government and financial system even as the Western society's are under attack from within their own borders to recognise 'tribal' rather than national agendas.
• There is a sustained and radical attack on authority in any traditional Judeo-Christian form.
• In Australia the latest attack is coming via a move on 'Cults', and in place of 'cults' read organised religion in any form coming down the road.
• Professional fear-mongers are making billions of dollars and spreading psychoses by sprouting misleading information about over-population, food and essential resources shortages etc, etc. 

All in all I do not have the faintest idea of what the 'signs' portend other making a few observations.

• A common denominator appears to be the embracing of a Utopian worldview, i.e. that man alone (as the measure of all things) is capable, skilled and clever enough to usher in world harmony if only the right conditions can be arrived at. Even the Islamic idea of a world-wide caliphate speaks of mens manipulating the conditions to suit Allah.
• There appears to be a singular agreement on a rejection of the Judeo-Christian worldview and all that it stands for, even (and including) science; because without a rational Being creating the world how could there be rational laws to discover? Rationality does not 'evolve' by chance, the proposition is self-defeating.
• Given that our educational, political, journalistic and social castes have essentially undermined the worldview that speaks of life and judgement after death, and that the Nietzschean impulse to eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow-we-die fatalism has grabbed the popular imagination, fear of what happens here on earth has become a principle motivating factor for political manipulators, 'snake-oil salesmen' and mass soothsayers.

We are being primed to worship at the altar of the elites, the 'experts' who are the sages with the wisdom, knowledge and ability to usher in the new world order sufficient for a thousand years of peace, harmony and love.
Just think John Lennon's 'Imagine'.