And there are many who are beginning to prepare for survival during the expected upheavals. And yes, they are wise. God sent a relatively mild scourge to get us into line. There are social disasters like ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and the absence of moral leadership. But Barukh Hashem we did not have a nuclear winter.
Shortsightedness is the malaise of governments and business.
The higher powers are available to help - providing we act on behalf of the many. The pollution of time has caused a speeding up and an increase in pressure that is unprecedented. Behind the scenes of our awareness there are millions of computer clocks racing, some of them at speeds over 400 megahertz, relentlessly pushing the flywheel of time which we, in search of ever greater speed, have loosened without examining the shadow costs to our lives. By and large we have no heaters, or refrigeration that can do without electricity. We have abandoned the necessary redundant fallback options of wood stoves, wells, and vegetable gardens.