Oct 17 2009
The end of the World is nigh!
As a West Yorkshire farmer is prosecuted and fined £150 for failing to satisfy the ‘psycological and ethological’ needs of his cows because he kept them in a barn with the doors shut and with no lighting you can’t help wondering…
Still, just in case, I’ve installed ‘bark-operated’ lights and doors in my house and I’m looking into a psycological assessment before the end of the year 
In another case, a nine year old girl takes her birthday cake to school only to find she is not allowed to share it, only to blow out the candles – healthy eating policy apparently.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda and the Taliban rule Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan. Anybody know what they want, apart from lots of dead infidels (that’s us by the way)? Well, the only good terrorist is dead one and at the rate the World population is growing the sooner they get dead the better.
In my lifetime, I was born in 1954, World population has more than doubled to around 6.5 billion! How are we going to feed them all? Well, according to New Scientist, Africa could feed the World almost on its own! Read the article here. That could make Africa more valuable as a World resource than the Middle East given that oil production will likely peak about now (some would argue that it already has). Read one view here.
It would be nice to think that millions of Africans will benefit from working for the World’s largest food producer but I suspect that they will probably not, given the ever-widening gulf between rich and poor. Now, there lots of theories about why this is but the bottom line is that there is a relatively fixed amount of money in the World. If you print more money inflation goes up as the value of the money drops so that’s bad, obviously. In my cynical view then, if you control the economy on unemployment you keep wages down, the rest of us pay (through taxes) for the benefit paid out, inflation remains low and rich bastards keep more of their cash.
In effect, there’s a war going on at the bottom of the heap and those at the top couldn’t give a toss. Given the apathy of most of the population this is unlikely to change.
So what’s that got to do with the end of the World? Well, it’s pretty clear we care little about our fellow citizens. We’ll shaft them for a few quid or an hour of fame. Instead of doing things, we have more people inspecting people doing things such that soon you won’t be able to do anything at all – it’ll be too hard to pass the inspections. That probably won’t matter too much as everyone will be an inspector!
If you don’t freeze to death when the oil runs out or boil in global warming, the terrorists don’t kill you and you can find a place away from prying inspectors and everyone else with stupid ideas you might just be able survive.
Otherwise, unless common-sense returns in spadefuls pretty damn quick, then we’re all bolloxed 
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