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The Titanic has hit the iceberg. A group of white men up in the wheelhouse are looking over reports on the last year distribution of ice at the North Pole. Down below people are in their cabins wondering if their credit cards will work and the word has gone down to the lower levels where dark-skinned men are told to repair the hole before lunch. In the first-class restaurant over breakfast of bacon, sausage and pheasant, business people a discussing investment in merging monopolies.
Food rationing coming quickly.
What is happening, history suggests, is a normal way empires collapse. Musical chairs, Let's take stoic resignation and figure out ok, given this, what is worth doing?
Art, care for those we see who are hurting, be open to emerging trends.
In many sports, people are taught how to fall. Go limp. Maybe good advice.
Titanic has hit the iceberg
Moscow today, people reacting over much of the world.as temperatures his physically they are rising psychologically and politically.
You're on a runaway train (called "civilization").
The track ahead is unfinished. It ends at a cliff. The cliff is drawing near.
Staying in the train means certain death. But jumping out the window doesn't look much better.
What to do? "Go limp"? I used to think this was practically our only option. That or crossing our fingers and jumping out the window.
But there is of course a third option. Fight our way to the engine room and throw a wrench in it.