Empire

Juxtaposed side by side, the two Charles Ferguson documentaries paint a disturbing picture: our civilization is a tower of wealth that has derived its height from the misery of surrounding kingdoms. Our riches have been accumulated after repressing other peoples to the point of madness, and here our tower sways as it grows topheavy...possessed with a madness of its own.

I find it frightening to be stuck inside this system as it deteriorates. But I can't imagine what a perceptive soldier overseas must feel as he or she watches the news, seeing his or her country unravel, pondering the complete obliviousness of his or her military leaders while surrounded by widespread suffering and insanity, feeling progressively more alone in an alien desert, away from a home that is slowly disintegrating somewhere beyond the darkening mountains.

But despite the horrors of this point in history, I can't understand some of the Christians in this country, referring to their Revelations, beginning to accept from the writings of people who were probably around for the fall of some ancient empire that we are in fact experiencing the end times. I say with some reservation, since I do find it disturbing as well, that I am excited for whatever the next age brings. Plenty of ideas to be explored, and this calcified culture is stifling any hope of a new idea coming to fruition. It is time for something else.