By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, October 15, 2023 All Rights Reserved. Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word defined as a life of moral corruption and turmoil, a world out of balance; a world gone insane. It seems that the human race has been racing toward chaos since our earliest beginnings. The history of all our civilizations are punctuated by failure. According to recorded history supported by archeological evidence, our most recent digital age of the Electromonkey was preceded by the ages of industry, steel, iron, bronze and copper. Oral traditions speak of even earlier Antediluvian ages of silver and gold, which trace human roots to the Cretaceous Ice Age and prior; and the civilizations of Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu and Hyborea. The common denominator of all failed civilizations is that they vanish without a trace; with the exception of a faint whisper of myth. We are in the midst of yet another collapse. The human race has once again gone insane. Lao Tsu, the legendary Chinese progenitor of Taoism once wrote of mankind racing their chariots beyond rein. In modern parlance this is hopping into a car with the pedal to the metal without hands on the steering wheel. There is a fatal flaw in our typical “Normal” human minds. As is the case of other herd animals, humans not only perceive safety in numbers; but also believe that this normal behavior of the larger group equates to sane and rational behavior. As long as we conform to this norm, then we will be safe from the predations that challenge our survival. Yet, what happens when an entire society, culture or civilization goes bat-shit crazy insane? We are now inextricably marching into World War III. This war will most likely develop into a thermonuclear war; with sabotage, cyber attacks, EMP electrical grid attacks and economic warfare thrown into the mix. Add a bit of contrived anarchy, and suicidal destruction of energy and agricultural systems; and we have the blueprint for yet another failed civilization. According to the playwright Jerome Lawrence, “A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” Recently we released the inmates of our mental hospitals and prisons onto our streets. The rest of our society have been tranquilized by television and social media programming, or antidepressant medications, in order to accept the resulting chaos to be normal. What will happen when our electrical grids go down and psychotropic drugs manufactured by our enemies disappear from the supply lines? If you think the world is crazy now, you haven’t seen anything yet. Makes me wonder what the remnants of our species will make of all the cellular phones and flat-screen TVs when they are uncovered from the dust of time. Perhaps they will be fashioned into tools and arrowheads. TV screens might be used for kneading bread. Maybe the jumbo ones will serve as altars for human sacrifices. Can’t expect much; after all we are only human.