The Year Ahead: 2010
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I believe the data presented above (and much other available data) support such unsettling predictions all too well. Hard times are coming – and that's if things go as well as possible from here. Much worse is coming – much worse than another Great Depression – unless major, positive change begins soon, and so far I do not see that happening.
I hope I'm wrong, but I fear that I am not.
Conclusion
2010 and the years beyond look to be harsh times for love and freedom, as well as for the more tangible elements discussed in this column. That is especially troubling because, as I have written before (for instance in The Two Great Evils and the Hammer of Infinite Power), today may be the last chance for us to prevent a disaster that cannot be undone, such as a long-term or even permanent destruction of modern civilization, a hypertech-enabled tyranny, or even an extinction event for the human race. Rapidly-advancing twenty-first century technology, combined with environmental and other challenges, make such dangers all-too-real, as many scientists and others have pointed out.
It may not be too late, but it is certainly late in the game. If we are to salvage not only America as a reasonably free society but finally realize the idea of America – the idea of a civil and compassionate society where people are truly free from tyranny and from systematic injustice – then we must use the chaos that is coming to our advantage. We must find ways to replace the pro-tyranny "government is compassion" and "coercive government is necessary" memes with the truth: that love and freedom require each other, and that civil society requires especially that the young (pregnant mothers, newborns, infants, and children) be treated with compassion and respect.
Love and freedom are the cure – the only cure – for what ails us. We either begin to understand that and to apply it, or we, and our children and grandchildren, will suffer the consequences.
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