Ship of fools

The following excerpt is, I think, worth translating first into 'Ozperanto' and then philosophically unpacking:

It’s not only that we no longer invent or pursue great dreams. Steyn points out that the progressives we put in charge are waging a war on progress. They oppose air conditioning, the internal combustion engine, oil exploration and almost anything that contributes to prosperity. So, despite what candidate Obama told Joe the Plumber, it’s not about spreading the wealth. It’s about equalizing poverty.

Steyn observes that we already suffer from a poverty of ambition. “We do not save, we do not produce. Instead we seek new, faster ways to live in the eternal present, in an unending whirl of sensory distraction.” We are a cosseted society devoted to frivolousness.

Yes, in Australia the current power elites are most definitely placing every possible block in the path of any development, which though it may sound pleasant and proper (as in preserving the rain forests, the barrier reef, etc), it actually works out to be a sure fire way of destroying all the advances made in middle class existence, and it doesn't even preserve those things it purports to do (consider the destructive capabilities of the Wind farms).

Of course all the elites and the very rich will maintain their lifestyle, it is just that we will go backwards towards the early stages of pre-industrial life where the poor (most of us) live wretched, mean and struggling existences, serving our 'masters' who live lives of extraordinary ease...with the marked difference that this time around there will be significantly reduced and compromised 'religious' impulses to hold back the truly despotic urges of our 'ruler', with the inevitable end result of a bloodbath far exceeding the French revolution.

Is this just fear mongering in the vein of AGW scaremongers?

I think not, just reading the news and following financial, political, and legal developments; the facts are that the you-know-what is truly about to hit the fan. All current mass-escape avenues through sport, drugs, and general excess are not going to stave off the inevitable for much longer, and then it will become every man for himself, and given the example we see in the Italian cruise liner disaster it will not be pretty for women and children.

Perhaps it will be that this is the moment when the church will shine...I hope so. But I truly fear that syncretization has taken such a hold that it will be difficult to tell us apart from the 'world' as so often happens in life today.

May God have mercy on us all.