As I read and wrote about the Draft (or daft?) Environmental Impact Report for our General Plan, its underlying principle of the official belief in global warming/climate change kept repeating itself as the guiding light for the way we have to change our entire way of life. This belief was packaged, endorsed and sold to the public successfully enough to become law in California. Because of this we are to leave the land and live in dense settlements since energy consuming travel must be severely minimized. This accomplishes the environmental goal of returning much of the earth to wild animals and obscure plants, a goal to extreme for public approval without the fear of burning alive on a parched earth.
Bursting forth in the 1960’s was the women’s liberation movement. It said that women should have the same traditional workplace roles as men. The two paycheck household became the norm. Today, a family can’t survive without two incomes. Is this, looking at it from another perspective, merely an accommodation to the permanent inflation policy in effect since the Federal Reserve Bank became activated under President Woodrow Wilson? A dollar back then is worth less that a cent today. Is this all a coincidence, or is something more at work?
The world’s population has grown exponentially, and many fear over population and the myriad problems it may cause. Suddenly, it’s OK to be gay or lesbian, or have abortion on demand. Some will even argue that these new acceptances are simply an instinctual response to overcrowding. And while I don’t have an explanation, I do observe and marvel at the timing of the events of social change.
In the Middle Ages, church and state were synonymous. Later, people found it freeing to separate church and state as in our Constitution. Then the state began to attack religion, first in Communist countries and currently in the Western world with secular humanism. Now, nanny state edicts attempt to replace our lost moral compass.
Some mystics go as far as to say that the instant information we have with the now portable internet simply replace a connected-ness and access to knowledge we had as a so called primitive people. I have more questions than answers.
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