Warnings confirmed! Again. Our Mental map is failing us.

 

Today’s two newspapers I’ve monitored daily for decades are ladened with stories and opinions confirming my warnings that things are going to get a lot worse before we wake up to our delusions that hope, elections, and charity will turn things around.  I decided to blog about today’s tsunami of evidence even before reading the Post’s “Today’s World View” article by Ishaan Tharoor titled “From Climate Change to civil wars, global crisis are not slowing down in 2024”.  Tharoor calls himself “your humble harbinger of bad tidings” then goes on to apologize “There’s lots that can go wrong in 2024, and many crisis that will get worse.” 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/22/global-crises-humanitarian-war-2034-year-sudan-palestine-myanmar-burkina-faso/

And after you reading it you might notice half a dozen (or more) other trends he didn’t mention.  Pandemics, the evolution of weaponry with AI, the new human induced mass extinction of species, accumulating toxic waste, relentless micro plastics, growing volume of space junk, or the five other sources of massive harm to our vital national or global electrical grids.  Any of which will likely contribute to a cascade of chaos given that each is linked to other problems for which viable and affordable solutions have been ignored for decades.  Just as we have ignored the irrefutable assertion that “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly, Director of Cyber & Infrastructure Security Agency, Oct. 29, 2021. (FYI: CISA is our nation’s newest US federal agency created during the middle of the Trump Administration).

As time allows me this morning, I will continue to add specific news stories from both papers to this blog post.  Normally these would be clippings that would be inserted into one of hundreds of specific “issues” files I’ve maintained for nearly 40 years.  But today these collected stories will all be put in a special file labeled “Dec 17, 2023 – two days after ‘Joy to the World”.  Then put into a bookshelf nookie titled “warnings Ignored”, along with a few other special books and articles.

[Jan 5 update.  I've been so overwhelmed and distracted by other undesirable trends that I didn't list any from Dec. 17...or even file them properly.  And today's two newspapers have multiple articles regarding the trends pointing to another world war.  Both stories of the expansions of conflict in Middle East and Ukraine...with Russia using N. Korean missiles - and China making moves to gain support in the Pacific.]

Unlikely to have grandchildren of my own this special collection of issues and their history will hopefully excuse me from being blamed for not trying to stop the catastrophic future consequences that are coming.  Inevitable consequences!  Consequences because of my generation’s delusional ‘Mind map’ that believed our US Constitution could be the savior of our American freedoms and security.  This and each political party’s fatal ‘hope’ that elections would finally enable our elected officials to achieve the desired seven intentions in its Preamble.  So much for a “woke” people.

My very first hit of morning news actually came from listening to another C-span interview with another book author in C-span’s series of ‘books that have influenced’ our nation’s readers.  DECEMBER 27, 2023 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 12/27/2023   Washington Journal.  Michael Barone on His Book Mental Maps of the Founders.  Washington Examiner senior political analyst Michael Barone talked about his book, Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders.    After hearing only the last five minutes of this interview and his reference to the prophetic phrase regrading “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” he offered his limited historic history of where this phrase originated, and why.  This may spur me to write a future blog using what I’ve already collected researching it.  So much to do....so little time!