FEAR: Futurist Existential Anxiety Reflexes

As the world slides ever so predictably into a recession cycle, what with superpowers swapping thrones (the US will probably have to concede to China fairly soon, most factors considered, especially with all the war-mongering and military involvement in the Middle East not looking at all optimistic, i.e. no end in sight, they cannot exterminate the terrorist pest infestations, have to keep babysitting immature unstable newborn democratic governments, despair despair); the questions raised based on sex and race on the political front reflect true chaos occurring in this post-postmodern era. Even as perceptions are deeply challenged by the possibility of either America's first black president or first female vice-president, so are well-hidden (as in classic unspoken truths - "you just can't handle the truth if it came straight out") racial and sexist prejudices brought to the surface, making one wonder if either option would make the world any better a place. The most powerful person in the world has become quite ridiculed and powerless within this last decade, and beyond the year-end elections there is a disturbing blank - how is the world going to survive with so much chaos at play? Even if there are patterns in place, no solutions can be found within them...can we as a human race even see how we are going to survive the next decade?

Pessimists can fear for real now, as our existence is so severely challenged in the beginning of this monster of a century. The world is at war with itself, both on a nation-to-nation level and on a planetary level. We have to fight terrorism, global warming, genocide, political dictators/tyrants, drugs, alcoholism, obesity, an aging population, poverty, epidemics, natural disasters...and the list continues. The longer this list grows, the more doomed we seem to be. When does it all come to an end? Should we be expecting the Apocalypse much sooner than what we can ever hope for? Should we forget about making any plans for a happy long-term, long-lived future, and simply try to live the best we can within the foreseeable future, while also preparing to die possibly tragic and horrifc deaths? Do we have a future at all?

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Yes, it is frightening, all this mumbo-jumbo, all this fear. Do we seek refuge in faith, hide behind the invisible protection offered by God? What alternatives are there to protect the sanity of the few who have no power against the insanity of the powers that be, and other menacing forces at play in this world of horrors and suffering?