The wonderfully tragic movie "On the Beach" starring Gregory Peck was an excellent example of how man-kind will eventually destroy itself. I'm not suggesting that we will be slowly poisoned by radioactivity... although that is certainly a possibility. The feeling of the ultimate resignation hangs over the movie like a smokey pall. The attempts at trying to fix the unfix-able make the helplessness seem all the more real. Permeating the gloom is the song Waltzing Matilda. It's use in the movie stitches the common end of all things together.
This type of gloom seems to be hanging over mankind right now. It's like we've gone as far as we can and now all the destructive, negative, venal and selfish tendencies have percolated to the surface to start the final march. Has evolution given way to devolution? Was the little attempt with the 2008 election a final attempt to fix the unfix-able? We've laid waste to our home planet and are incapable of finding another. The rich will probably be the last to go, partying as the inevitable happens. I wonder what their song will be.
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