Bearing Witness

It appears that it is our lot to witness the death throes of the hegemony of North Atlantic civilization. The center of gravity is shifting back towards Central Asia. The attempt by the U.S. to control the world (and, especially, the so-called Middle East) through brute force is proving to be a dismal failure and its Gospel of Consumerism holds sway only over the pathologically shallow. As weapons suppliers to the world, the U.S. and Europe have insured that a culture of violence will continue to spread its tentacles, but that, too, will burn itself out in time—hopefully while there are still some people left who have refused that and every other zero-sum game offered by a bankrupt civilization…

Meanwhile, as Voltaire wisely advised, let us tend our gardens.