CHAPTER 2 THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Please allow me to draw a very negative image of our world's state this time. For sure, it's not as bad as I will point it out, or is it? Anyway, even talking negatively can be an act of love. Like a mother sometimes yells at her child with a threatening voice to stop it from doing something which will save its life. However, that mother will suffer with all her heart, when she sees her child cry because of her firm discipline. But sometimes love requires such acts. I love our earth, therefore I yell.

 As always, I can’t resist, but to point out how irresponsible we human beings currently behave to mother earth and of course to each other following the logic conclusions from chapter 1. Through endless power and profit-mania, through senseless greed and egoism, we have treated mother earth really badly in the past century (and each other as long as the human being has probably existed). Our Earth behaves like any other living being. It transforms its face and grows naturally through the elements of fire, wind, water and earth. It reproduces itself like the cells in our human body so it can grow or survive. Planet earth can get sick like any other organism and needs treatment, too. It can have the galaxy-flu and in turn take in a small tsunami for its cure. But what happens when our earth gets sick really really bad? When it gets cancer because of the way we human beings treat it? What if we were healthy cells in the beginning and have now transformed into cancer cells? So I feel empathy then, if Earth has to get more intense and frequent treatments through stronger hurricanes, stronger earthquakes, stronger tsunamis and stronger eruptions. Also, it will happen more often. It’ll have to fight back and kill the disease. It’s a live or die game for our earth. Unfortunate for us, we will die along with it as we are the cells within that body. Well, let’s face it, we are the disease.

Once a body dies so will everything else contained in it. Now, let’s look at the current news and historic statistics what’s going on all around our planet. To be honest, I see cancer, but I’m not sure in which stadium mother earth currently finds herself. I hope, it’s not terminal yet and a cure will be found. In my opinion, there are 2 options: either earth takes strong antibiotics and erases the human race from its body. Or the cancer cells transform back into healthy cells by getting rid of its very own diseases: Greed and egoism. I hope for the 2^nd option. But that would mean that we’d have to find the roots of the disease, and get rid of them who corrupt other cells. We’d have to start with the greedy dictators of the world who act in public but also those who act behind the curtains.

But more importantly, we’d have to change the supercapitalistic system that we currently live in and transform it into a healthy social democratic system. Let’s be honest, we still have nuclear energy, because it is cheaper (and industry dictators make us think we need them and block alternative inventions). We still use cars with gas, because they are faster (and industry dictators make us think we need them and block alternative inventions). We still build more and more concrete commercial shopping centers because we need to consume more in order to distract our minds of our misery (and industry dictators make us think we need it, use media to stimulate that thought and therefore block human creativeness and connection with each other, with spirituality, with philosophy, with politics with love, with education, with everything of real value etc.). When have we started living in a world, when all that matters is how much money you have or earn and that based on that money (which is by the way the creation of the human being) we make decisions that we think are efficient, but in reality are catastrophic for our earth and for all human beings.