Posted 04 December 2005 - 09:36 PM
Sorry if I hit a nerve. Frankly I had hoped that this post would draw a blank. I would like to know what a vision is like for others, to compare notes so to speak. My PhD is in Political Science, and I can think up many scenarios ending in worldwide poverty. Following WWII, the U.S. decided to take its' money overseas following cheap labor in Germany and Japan. As those economies developed, the pattern was continued in the third world. This did three things: 1.) reduced the standard of living in the USA for most Americans, 2.) percipatated the ecological crisis by exporting industrial processes, and 3.) introduced the third world to economic ambitions that the world cannot afford. To run the world to an American or European standard of living is not only unsustainable, but would take the resources of three earth like planets to achieve RIGHT NOW.
The only solutions known are huge depopulations, (human die-off), huge reductions in the standard of living for most people, and or new vast energy sources like ZPE, or low tech fusion. These things, or a combination will come within the next 40 years. Indeed, they are happening as I write. With every American job going overseas, the countrys' ability to purchase Chinese products, or Indian products is reduced. Anyone who has tracked opposing graph curves can appreciate what I'm saying.
I had hoped that this knowledge was coloring my feelings. After the last election I felt like R.E. Lee riding home from Appomatox. What does a vision FEEL like? For me, it's when I'm tired or going to sleep, that, if I'm not careful, I see these horrors. Is that typical? Am I just subconsciously externalizing what I consciously know to be true? I am just a dim bulb in the psychic world; an 8 Watt guy. Some of you shine like the sun. I am not alone in my curiousity, and this is serious. What is having a vision like. I need to know.
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
This much let me avow---
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream:
Yet if hope has flown away In a night,
Or in a day, In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.