Sentient Beings, Part II

I think we are getting close to the end of the story. Here is a response to the statement that I published in my last post. You know, all my life I've been digging for answers, and now I feel my shovel has hit an iron wall. I'm not sure what is beyond this level, if anything. There is probably nothing ahead but a lot of extreme violence and cannibalism. We will go back to a warlord-type government. Young men will be forced to fight, and old men will be forced to till. And the fate of the women will be determined by the overseers. We will have at least, finally, resorted back to an efficient hierarchical structure.

From Bob in Tampa, FL:

In a nutshell, you got it. Because we understand the dilemma we are the outsiders with numbers too few to be effective even if they did try to hear us. Plus we are strange, we think differently in an age where belief equals mental virture and thinking is suspect. Where did the 60's go? "Don't trust anyone over 30." "Resist authority" "Make love, not war." The only real hope is that things will get so bad so quickly that people rise up and slaughter TPTB right down to their great grandchildren to thin out that evil gene pool and those of us commoners that survive can try to start anew. Any way it goes, the result will be turmoil and great loss of life. Cannot see it working out gradually and peacefully. We passed that window years ago. Peak Oil, Climate Change, Greenland/Antartic Melting, Ocean Warming, Methane Burp, Crop Failures, Nuclear Proliferation, are the headlines of tomorow and all we can do is relocate and make preparations. Einstein had it right. The universe MIGHT be limitless but stupidity is DEFINITELY limitless.