Yes, ladies and Gentlemen, I have an Apocalyptic Prediction of my own. I know for certain that the world will not end with a bang. Well to be honest I don't really know that and no-one alive today or even our descendants, depending on how long it takes, will not know either, because the human race will enjoy an Apocalypse of its own long before the world does.
The seeds of this Apocalypse have already been sown. The human race is already stricken with a life threatening affliction for which there is no known cure. The symptoms are being exhibited in all corners of the globe. No race, creed or religion is untouched by this insidious affliction. There is no vaccine. There is nothing one can do to prevent it. We all exhibit signs of it from time to time. No one, yes not even you, is immune. The human race is, unfortunately and tragically, stricken with chronic stupidity.
I am reminded of this on a daily basis. The newspapers are the best place to see where the latest outbreaks are taking place. Our local papers have reported recently on the Taliban in Pakistan having killed at least half a dozen women aid workers who are working for the UN program to eradicate polio. They were instituting a program of inoculation to the local population. The Taliban obviously do not give credence to this "Western" interference in their affairs. Their way of demonstrating their dissent is not by way of debate or logic, but by eradicating those providing the vaccinations. These workers are local women by the way and not foreigners.
How stupid is this? Their good works are condemning their children to the possibilities of contracting a debilitating disease. It is reminiscent of those that are boycotting immunisation for their children because of research which said that there is a link between autism and immunisation. Never mind that this research has been thoroughly debunked. It seems that they are trading a high chance of their children contracting possibly deadly diseases for a minuscule chance that they might become autistic. It seems that a companion affliction of chronic stupidity is incipient selfishness. Do they not see that although their kid will not become autistic he will more likely than not contract some eminently preventable disease and pass it onto others and may even die from one of these preventative diseases.
Chronic stupidity combined with incipient selfishness is often accompanied by an overwhelming belief in conspiracy theories specially if these are circulated on the Internet or via emails. What are the chances that humankind can survive this deadly combination of afflictions? How long have we got? Will it be Global Warming or a combination of many stupidities? Well I will leave you to your own devices on this question, but will provide you with this unalterable fact to ponder on. More and more atomic bombs are falling into the hands of the chronically stupid...
'Til next post...
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