"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall" -Francis Bacon
My goodness has humanity really gone all out lately. We've been pretty consistently doing increasingly gnarly stuff since the Industrial Conversion, but it seems as if the ante has been raised so high that spontaneous combustion is now a real concern. The massive oil slick that is now covering an area 45 miles by 105, an awesome testament to the ravenous appetite of America and its 300 million dependents that constitutes this social experiment we call our country. Meanwhile the cradle of Western Civilization is in a state of complete financial upheaval, which is making the rest of the EU very nervous as there ridiculously high standard of living (achieved through Imperialism and brutally ruthless economic expansionism mind you) looks as though it might float away like a dream when you awake suddenly. Developed countries can't default on their debt, because then people might not lend money to rich countries, then we couldn't have huge ass debts to service the actions of our bloated bullshit governments. The indestructible and willy Hakimullah Mehsud has once again lived through a claim of his death, and thus has the Pakistani Taliban once again proven that the US and our Pakistani proxies are habitually liars pandering to international media and myopic politicians. Speaking of which NATO has been steadily surrounding Kandahar in preparation for a major offensive in an attempt to apparently draw out and engage the Taliban in one of the larger urban centers. The people at the Pentagon who have planned this and General Patreaus, the regional commander, are professionals at warfare, so I'm sure there is some pretty sound logic behind their plan. Patreaus was quoted by reporters as saying that their is a high possibility that the Taliban will carry out "horrific actions" in desperation. Seeing as how they have already engaged in bomb attacks, assassinations and suicide raids in ever increasing numbers in mere response to the build up around the city one can only imagine what will come. Meanwhile, else on planet Earth others persevere through the fear amidst these strange and dangerous times. Bangkok is still a scene of street fighting as the red shirts and the military play chicken in the streets. The Red Shirts have been occupying the heart of the city for 7 weeks now and seem dead set on pushing the issue as far as they have to to get the election overturned. As usual there are hundreds of little events that take place on this day, but to me it seems that the shitstorm is just getting going. The Maoists of Nepal have been making themselves seen once again in the streets of Kathmandu threatening an indefinite general strike if the government isn't dissolved. And of course the World Expo in China opened with 2,300 performers involved in the uber elaborate opening display that also involved mass fireworks and lasers. I'd like to apologize for all the parts of the world deep in our eternal struggle, your are not mentioned but certainly not forgotten, I just have a limited access to accurate information. In our self evident quest to go all out I really hope we don't run all out of time to get our shit together before we've forever fucked ourselves and all out of a way to stay alive any longer as a species.
