HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD (67): ON LOSING

We are losing. We are losing big time and nobody seems to care.

We are losing our freedom. More and more our civil freedoms are taken away from us. You can be body-searched anytime and any place, because we are fighting a war against terrorism. At the same time we are losing our safety. Despite the enormous number of police-officers, life is getting dangerous. Getting into a life-threatening situation is possible at any time. The media are pumping this like a mantra into your brain.

We are losing our purity. Air, water and soil are getting polluted all the time. Reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses seems to be impossible, cities are overheated places filled with toxic gasses and dubious particles circling around. We are losing the purity of our food. Vegetables are grown not for their taste or their vitamines, but for their durability. In this way Thai salad is for sale in your local grocery. The purity of our waters is damaged every minute. The latest reports state that a mass extinction is emminent. The oceans are dying and plastic waste gathers everywhere, forming deadzones for sealife. We are losing the purity of our soil. Earth is dotted with no-go areas, where human interference led to local disasters. The eternal fires in China's coal-mines, Tsjernobyl or Fukushima. Radiation does not decay and it has a tendency to accumulate and will find it's way into the foodchain.

We are losing our forests, the lungs of our planet. The destruction and plunder is going on on a gigantic scale. Canada is bulldozering its permafrost to obtain some oil. Just for profit, an enormous area is turned into a desert.

We are losing our solidarity. Being an wealthy country, we lose the feeling to share. Europe and the Netherlands are closing the borders and bordercontrol is reinstated.

We are losing connection. Connection with your loved ones, your neighbours and fellow-citizens. We are losing our connection with nature and the environment. We are losing our connection with our history and local culture. Being disconnected this way makes people easy to manipulate and kept in a state of apathy.

We are losing our money and our property. Despite pep-talks and info-mercials the economy, the banks and individual countries will crash. The money used for saving banks and countries, will be flushed down the drain; into the abyss; the black hole of debt.

We are not free, we are owned.

And we don't seem to care.

SiTU