What If Something Unspeakable Terrible Was Going To Happen..

Suppose something immensely terrible was going to happen in the next 15, 20 years or so, how would you react?

I watched Childhood's End (Arthur C Clarke) today. It was a bit weird, had good and bad points. But what really seemed weird was how certain things "reverberate". Sometimes its as if some things are forecast in advance, premonitions. We say "conspiracy theories don't happen". Or atleast some/most of us say that.

But radical Islam in the West, Nazism, totalitarian Pol Pot style so called "Communism" etc all had specific aims, which decades before would/might have seemed very far fetched. So the question isn't really whether conspiracies happen, its more about how forceful/relevant a conspiracy might be.

Anyway the terrible event I'm talking about would be something like the worst parts of WW2 for your city/country. An extremist government being planned and 20-30% of people in your country being killed.

PS The poll edit has a glitch. I wanted to say
option #11 "It may or may not happen".

 

You mean it's not?

 

WHAT now?

 

I mean suppose steps are being taken by "certain powers that be" today, and it will all be revealed/"too late" in 15, 20, 25 or so years time.

How do you think you'd react over the time from now until then?
Or do you think such an immensely terrible event would never happen?

 

You mean the World is unspeakably terrible now?

Or that Global Tyranny/an "End of Days" type situation is already happening?

 

No one wants to think about that..

i would gather my family..they are quite far apart, but in that time, we could do it

 

But if you knew/accepted it could happen, atleast you would have a chance of preventing it.

I'm interested to see how many people think it COULD happen.
As well as how people would react.

As an aside, Clarke's book was written in 1953, but some parts of it seem eeriely relevant for today...
Which is part of what got me thinking.

 

There's a film of childhood's end? I really dig that book, have to check it out.

I've been reading "Watching the door" by Kevin Myers, an account of a journalist at the height of the troubles in Belfast. One of the things you get a sense of is how insanely quickly these things happen. He says If you told a Catholic in Belfast that one day they'd form death squads and kill or torture their protestant neighbours (and vice versa) they'd have laughed at you, but all it took was a few years in the end.

 

I'm not allowed to say...

 

my attitude..

 

^yep

i think humanity is due for a lesson...a bigtime lesson


like an alien invasion or a meteor strike



or President Trump

 

Same difference...

 

You forgot 'Shit Happens'


Hotwater

 

and the whale was thinking "its big and round, i think i'll call it ground" and the bowl of petunias was thinking "oh no, not again".

well we ARE screwing ourselves, which has nothing to do with big friendly invisible things floating down out of the clouds to make war on everything.

also happy expect everything to be some kind wierd prank that may or may not make any kind of decipherable sense day.

also EVERYTHING 'happens'. sometimes its shit. sometimes its pretty good shit.

 

If we are talking about geocide here, I really can't answear the question because I'm 100% sure I'll be one of the many damned unfit for society. I'm pretty must unfit now, but those mother fuckers can't kill me, by law. However, if there is a falling in our infrastructure, and a new world order is created, I know definately I would be amongst the many killed. So, I'll just let them have me. No use fighting. Just let me tell them one thing, they can sick my dick, 'cause they're doing me a favor.

 

there is nothing "new" about the "world order" of feudalism, with which resource concentrating mechanisms are programed to usurp consent of the governed.
the fate of humanity stubbornly hurls toward another form of collective mass suicide, entirely within the purview of our collective choice, that being the massive and rapid mutation of diseases and increased probability of massive famines by means of global climate change.

neither of these developments are entirely new. and while beyond individual control, neither are beyond the influence of individual choices made conscientiously.
indeed it is the statistical sum of all our choices which together steer this course.

mentioning this, is the very thing, and possibly the one thing, that i can do, beyond my choice of priorities in my own life, i can do about it.

 

Maybe the toxification of the food chain, the water, the soil, the air, the oceans will do it.

 

to me, the dominance of aggressiveness is much more unspeakably terrible thing then any natural reduction in human population levels.
making our world less hospitable to life, including our own, is an unspeakably stupid thing we are doing for the sake of blind greed.