Does the World need to be Saved?

Maybe not, but how about a little contingency planning, for the heavenly entourage? Let's help them figure this out.

Houston, we have a problem. We might be running low on precious resources. We might wake up one day and decide that life was a zero-sum game, that perpetual progress was not so perpetual. We might decide to bury our gold, beggar our neighbors, and buy weapons. The center might not hold. We could stumble in our random-walk to a new world order.

How fragile, complex and interdependent can civilization become? Are there limits to growth? Have we already overshot the mark? Where is our safety-net?

Like I say, a little contingency planning might not be entirely out of order.

It could well be that we are here by accident, and that I'm just whistling in the dark. Yes, that is yet another contingency. It not a contingency that I would like to be in charge of, thank you very much.

So life is an absurdity in a meaningless universe. We are lost in space & time. Our luck is bound to run out. But how many of us actually believe this? How many of us do not harbor just a smidgen of doubt about our puported status as being a collection of atoms swerving in the dark? I don't know about you, but it doesn't quite feel like that, to me.

It is to that smidgen of doubt that I appeal. If you and I are not just those swervy atoms, then every reductionist bet is off. We might then have a Source, and we might not be here entirely by accident.

Will this putative fact prevent our accidental demise by an asteroid from space, from a nuclear armageddon, from a rogue virus, run amok? Yes and no.

If we are not here by accident, then we can only surmise some larger scheme of things with respect to which we are not entirely epiphenomenal.

It is to that putative scheme that I appeal. The Force is with us. Wonderful, but what does it want from us? Hmmm.... how do I put this delicately....... we have been fattened for the harvest. Is it a wonder that I not a popular blogger?

Did I have to wake you up just to tell you this bit of news? Am I going to lead a revolt against fate?

No, I'm only going to attempt, way beyond my pay grade, a little chat about the cosmic birds and bees.......

But, wait, no, this is supposed to be about a cosmic contingency.........

9-15-14