2024

In "A Christmas Carol" the past can't be changed, the present altered, and the future is yet to be written. The future is determined by the present and the past. The Spirit of the Future is pointing down a dark path if we don't overcome our fears and complacency.

We talk a good game, sometimes we believe it, but at the start of a new year we should find a few moments to be honest with ourselves.

?Humans will do almost anything to avoid change. Domestic abuse victims stay in the hell they know rather than take a chance on one they do not. The financial markets, political figures, & business want stability, we like consistent weather and climate...a reason a majority live in the temperate zone.

?The unknown triggers the oldest part of our brain and puts us on alert. Many fear to fly, fast cars, high floors, even swimming can make grownups tremble. So, the more we accumulate, the more we have to lose, the more we want to control the world around us. People who have amassed power, even more so than wealth, hold the most fear and lash out most brutally. They seek to convince the public of their good intentions and righteousness, even as they scapegoat those who are unable to protect themselves.

?It is easy to make others the enemy when protecting your power. Empires, dictatorships, religious hierarchies, and all fashions of dynasties have done this.?

Across the ages control over the sources of energy have led good people to do horrific things. Protecting the wealth of those controlling energy has ended empires, brought down kingdoms, and created new political and economic forces.

?Very simplistically, the Dutch clung to wind and water and were overcome by the British use of coal. When oil and gas surpassed coal the sun set on the British Empire. Now those economies try desperately to hold on to the infrastructure that made them into gods who are richer than Midas. They do so even as the world changes and needs a dramatically different energy source.?Their power is willing to sacrifice democracy itself. They are willing to destroy the nations they built into modern empires to keep their place in the world order.

?Nations, businesses, and powerful loners with no ties to the decaying system are challenging it and winning with new power sources that change lives one city at a time. As they ramp up, oil and gas strike back, clawing and striking fear in the public that their way of life will be a tragic remnant of what it could have been if the current system is lost.?

?Political figures call for more drilling, more degradation, seeking immediate riches as the sunsets on antique energy systems. From manpower to horsepower, to water, wood, and steam, to coal, oil, and gas. Change is fraught with turmoil, not because of the change, but because those who had accumulated wealth had too much invested to make the change. They would tank the economy or the nation itself rather than move on.

?The economic, political, military, and social machine tied into oil is so great, there is nothing the spider web will not do to keep its power and wealth. In a world where change is hard, where people fear it so, we hear the calls for scapegoats, we hear voices calling out those who are not like us as the enemy, as those responsible for the subterfuge, as those destabilizing our schools, communities, businesses, and democracy.?

?The fights going on across the globe over land is paygrades below the heads of those in control. They are pawns in a much bigger war, a war for the energy, water, and power of the next 1,000 years. The power is not interested in trans youth, Gaza or Israel, Ukraine, or Sudan, it seeks a destabilized world where their power and strength can move in as governments teeter and powerbases shift.

?This war that will control human beings, government, and power over 8+ billion humans under its control.

?The people behind this movement know you are focused on survival, the dead and dying will keep you occupied, the destruction of the planet will keep you in the streets, fear of election results if nations, staying afloat as boats sinks will keep you up at night, but it won't matter.

?Change is coming with overwhelming force and consumes all in its wake.