Do I care what happens next? Immensely.
But in the last year or so my eagerness and anticipation of the future has been affected by recent world events, adding fears that weren't there before. Though there were hints, the years leading up to World War II provided no indications of the depth and magnitude of the upcoming tragedy. Our present contains even stronger hints of upcoming troubles, and there seem few indications of the world shifting to a more positive course. One very troubling parallel is that as Jews tried to flee the growing Nazi threat doors slammed around the world, the same as today for Middle Eastern refugees.
Part of me is wrestling with the notion that the violence we are seeing is nothing new and, in a lot of ways, it's even less frequent than it has ever been historically. But there is a caveat, and that caveat lies with technology. If a group like ISIS were to get ahold of a nuclear device, it's game over. They would absolutely detonate it because they live under the delusion that they have 72 virgins waiting for them in Paradise.
The recent revelations between NATO and what they would call the Axis of Evil is ramping up. I'm not sure we can avoid the next World War. It's a terrible thought only because its possibility seems so plausible and almost inevitable.
Philosophically one could say that because we care may be evidence of something beyond ourselves. On the other hand, scientifically we could look at the progression of mammals. The higher the level of intelligence, the more likely they are to express something reminiscent of love, even if primitive by human standards.
I guess being human is paradoxically both a blessing and a curse.
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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