The state of rotteness.

Reading that poem reminds me that there is a very good case for the world being rotten. The sad news is that this is not news... we all know it already and yet no-one does anything about it... least of all the people who have actually taken it upon themselves within the game of "political power" to actually have some "power".

People are not waiting for conclusive evidence, or good arguments - all these exist. The problems lie in the very state of rotteness.

The rotteness is just this, that people don't do what they should whether in power or not, whether responsible or not.

It's a dream then to think that if we provided evidence or good argument we could change anything. Nuclear power, perfectly calculated and researched as well as anything ever could be, was used to kill and create a state of global insecurity and unease. Was all this what was argued?

The cult of Diana on a small Aegean island during the days of Antiquity illustrates an important logic of those hellbent on surmounting their opponents. So desirable was the position of Guardian of the temple of Diana that young men were always battling for the post. Few realised however that the day they won they took over a life of terror, for each day and each night for the rest of their short lives they would have to hide with sword drawn to defend themselves from the next suitor. Thus if we ever take up arms to win a position over someone else, then it follows that when we take up that position we will need to defend forever from those same arms and so ensure our demise by their very hand. So it is true that "he who lives by the sword, so shall he die by the sword."

So stupid are men that we get caught by our own aspirations and drives in such dead ends, unable to see as we are the mirror that stands before all our actions. They call it karma in the East as though it was a Law which had to be applied, when it is present in our very actions themselves if only we had the eyes to see it.

How futile then that we seek this position, over that position. Hope that our well fashioned arguments are swords that will win. Designate this as rotten and that as healthy.

After many millenia doesn't History tell us but one thing that the book of History will never be finished and that the writers spend their time on an endless wheel. The foolishness of even our contemporaries who claimed that "boom and bust" were finised, or Fukayama who claimed even that "History was finished". Whatever is finised is just the next page of History (and there surfaces the self-reference argument again).

So are we doomed to try and try-not and achieve just the same nothing in the long run? That what is this, is really that, and it is only our ignorance that sees them as two. That the labours that gave us Rome are the labours that gave us equally the Dark-Ages? And who would work to create a Dark-Age? but only a horse blinded by the arrival at Rome who failed to look where the Northern roads out of the city do run.

I lack the energy and the inspiration at the moment to complete the gargantuan task of asssempling all the information required to show that Mankind has gone the wrong way of the past 1000 years. And in any case Mankind will find out what the future holds with or without prophets.

And all those who would listen to evidence and argument already know that we have made a gigantic mistake. And all those who can't see because Rome is so close wouldn't listen anyway.

Again my roads seem to point upwards to transcendence and I'm beginning to realise all other roads are futile and endless, going here and then there, but never arriving anywhere.