After The Fall

I don't know about you - how could I? - but it seems baked into my head that the future = progress. That we as a species, as a people, and/or as a country are always moving upwards and onwards. And that was probably true for some time.

But no longer, at least in large parts of the world (Asia excepted). For instance, in New England, whenever you see a stone wall in the middle of the forest or some other strange place, what you are actually seeing is the rollback of society - the wall represented the border of a farmer's field. The farmer is long gone, and his fields have returned to the Woods.

Same with all the factory towns in New England/Midwest - they're hollowed out, dead, husks of their former glories. Look at the roads and trains and schools and libraries all across America and you will see the story of decay - we hit our peak in the US sometime in 1963, I calculate, and we've been spiraling down since. Co-incidentally this is the same timeline as the rise of the modern Repuglican Party, which is killing the country.

But it's not just America - the picture above is from Kabul, Afghanistan, which once was a fairly modern, cosmopolitan (in context) city, but after decades of war, is now mostly rubble. Same for much of Africa - large portions of African cities were fairly modern in the 1960's, and have since regressed.

Such that we are, in many areas, already living a psuedo-apocalyptic life: The Fall has already happened, it's just a slow unwinding from that point.

But fret not! Our good friends the Repuglicans will ensure this destruction picks up. For all of us, praise Jesus.