Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The end is nearing - II

We’ve been hearing it throughout history, that the world will soon end. The world never ended. But in this age, almost everyone seems to have figured out that the end is actually nearing.

Why do you think the world will soon end? I made my point in this re:, couple months ago. If you are too lazy to check Part I, I’d point some popular guesses. Nuclear war, environmental disease or catastrophes, but I think these are all quite unlikely. Nuclear war, for instance, relies on the actions of a notoriously unreliable group. Chances are that when its time for turning the nuclear launch keys on, at least one soldier will realize that he's forgotten his keys home. By the time he gets home, digging for them, the world's composures will be cooled, and the war will be called off. I suppose this must have already happened a few times.

Likewise, global warming seems unrealistic. With the increase of oil and gas usage, pollution will increase too, thus destroying the atmosphere, causing global warming, which will melt the polar ice caps, and raise the sea levels, which then.... Heck, this scenario is ridiculously complicated :P End of the world due to plague? That’s quite simple as to be incomprehensively obvious it hasn't accomplished much besides making people hate rats, once the most beloved of domestic pets. The bird flu will probably just repeat the same pattern, turning people against chickens, replacing their place on plate with porcupines.

So these aren't viable means for ending the world, but we know the world will end soon. How, you ask? Simple. Boredom and lack of interest. Most people, including you and I, have become bored with life and its mundanity (adventure, love, mcDonalds). Eventually, we'll get so bored that we'll simply decide to do something besides living. Only the most enthusiastic people will stick around, like the cult members and folks who paint their faces at football games. But such people are not enough to keep the world going. The world will become so dull and dispirited that it will finally just stop rotating and fall out of space.

This is a highly distressing vision of the future, but don't forsake your hopes yet. Excitement may still be revived in humanity, only if some genius somewhere would invent something so amazing, that it would re-energize the entire universe. Something which would bring pleasure in all mankind denied us by the smothers of the modern world, and remind us what makes the strife for our existence truly worthy. Any guesses? How about a 'glowing coke' ? Wouldnt that be a coolest invention? :D
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