BEHOLD THE GLOBAL ROUNDUP

We've come a long way from the hunter-gatherers we used to be—at least that's what we're told. 

We've formed ourselves into groups, and groups of groups, so we live in a complex society now.  We've achieved a sometimes inspiring level of culture in the arts, uncovered some intriguing technologies through science, and are in the process of initiating a spiritual synthesis that may hold great promise, depending on how we handle it. 

That's the good news.

INFOMANIA

We've also collected a mass of externalized information and experience (for what it's worth empirically) particularly over the last century or so and most notably in the past few years.  But with this veritable Everest of data now online and at our fingertips we should pause for a moment to think about what we're going to do with it.  There are repercussions to blindly assimilating raw data. 

HOW TO INVENT OUR OWN WORLD ORDER

Hey, what's really going on?  Who knows.

The system's broke—we know that much—but what can we do about it?  Let's check the general state of things to get a clue or two. 

Aren't you sick of being clueless?

OUR BIG FAT WORLD MESS

Every day more and more ideas, conjecture and downright fantasies about our big fat mess circulate the globe.  We find a plethora of lies, disinformation, misinformation, some few truths great and small, an army of agents at work around the traps—and who knows whose 'side' they're on?—and somewhere in the muddle is a greater truth we can scarcely wrap our heads around.

As soon as we think we've got things worked out something new pops up to change it all again.  And don't you just hate it when that happens?

Because of its sheer magnitude we won't repeat a maudlin list of woes here—let's simply agree we have a mammoth problem.  No, no, not some sort of revived Ice-Age-DNA inundation—at least not that I know of yet—I'm talking about a lot of very dirty laundry on the save-our-sorry-selves list.

In any case, wherever it all came from, whatever form it might take, whatever goals may be mooted, however dastardly or benevolent any individual or group intention appears to be or whoever the key players ultimately are, one thing we can say for sure is, "We have issues."  Control issues—and lots of 'em.