Enthralled by the spectacle of decay..

Before he died George Carlin gave some interviews in which he basically said that his perspective changed when he stopped caring about the outcome of events, and just took humor and or pleasure in the grotesque way those events would unfold.

Now it's not clear to me, if you have people or things in this life that you care about, that it is possible to become completely detached from the world, and not be vested to some degree in the world at large (even if it's because you don't want your pet puppy to be mutilated and eaten by bands of rampaging zombies). Now to be fair, he did say that his stance might very well be the result of a brokenhearted idealist turned cynic.

But I have to say, speaking for myself, that viewing the world through such a jaundiced eye makes for a much less stressful life. Things are going to hell in a hand-basket, in a spectacular way, and nobody in charge seems to give a flying rats ass.

The Bible says that "The love of money is the root of all evil", and these greedy bastards are trying to take us all down, rejoicing in the distruction, viewing each and every thing that happens as some kind of business opportunity. Even Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, was never so pernicious.

There is a line in Battlestar Galactica, where Adama says "We never asked ourselves whether we deserve to survive.". I used to think we did, and were worth saving. Now, I'm not so sure, and I'm beginning to think Nero might have had a point. My reason for living is now just to be here to witness it all.

Still if we do deserve redemption, the only way we will achieve it is to act decisively, and to understand that there are some things more important than money.