Life and Death

There is individual death and collective death. Millennialism poses that the world will end. After 2000, some people expected a big debacle. There was this incident on 9/11. After that, some things do not seem to work. James Lovelock expects collective death by global warming. But then again Thomas L. Friedman, from the NYT, expects great opportunities to save ourselves and enter into the new millennium with a lot of promise. Who is right?

There are more public figures on each side of this dichotomy, of course. Utopia or Oblivion, like Buckminster Fuller put it many years ago.

I know enough not to say the last word on this, I write here my current take on the matter.

I believe that when the end approaches, all of us will know. Therefore we need a realistic and hopeful alternative to doomsday. Maybe Michael Albert, has the solution, with participatory economics.

In issues of life and death, no stone should be left unturned.

And then there is Cho Seung-Hui.