NATION IN DECLINE
Exclusive: Craige McMillan examines consequences of human genome deterioration
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Craige McMillan Dr. John Sanford, a retired plant geneticist who turned his
attention to human genetics after retirement, has said the human genome
is deteriorating at one or two percent per generation. The real question
is, how many more generational cycles before collapse?
Certainly baby boomers are not getting any smarter. I learn technical stuff, but only because I have to. A tech-savvy society demands tech-savvy employees to pull the levers, stoke the knowledge burners and ring the caution bells when the high-tech pressure cooker over-inflates and takes off in whatever direction it was already going.
Maybe that is part of the problem. Is being tech-savvy the same as being educated? Do we actually educate anyone anymore? While there are a lot of definitions of stupidity, most of them indicate that the exercise of stupidity leads to a poor outcome – both for ourselves and others.
Well, how might we apply that to history? We might decide that becoming a dictatorship instead of a republic is bad for personal freedom. But then we would have to know what a dictatorship looks like, and how it takes hold. If we don’t have that information, we are forced to rely on the truthfulness of Hollywood in telling the story over two hours in a movie theater, or a few half-hour segments on TV. If you are good with those options … well I’m sorry, but you’re tottering toward stupidity.
History is the big backdrop in the theater of our lives that each of us struts back and forth upon during our brief stay here. The backdrop sets the mood and tone, we add the events of our time. The fabric that we weave becomes the future.
This big backdrop allows us to see patterns in current events that look the same as those we see in the backdrop. Certain events, repeated over, lead to disease, starvation and death. Other events lead to vibrancy and life. Spotting these early on can make all our lives better – or much, much worse.
Not spotting these patterns for what they are leaves us not at the mercy of random events, but at the mercy of others who do see the patterns and are using them to drive us down a road we would not otherwise willingly travel.
God tells us that the last road humanity takes will lead to a place so terrible that our extraction will require divine intervention, “or no flesh will survive.” The world leader we find at the end of that long road is not going to be our friend. The tapestry of history makes this quite clear. But it does require “eyes to see.” Do you have them?
Craige McMillan Dr. John Sanford, a retired plant geneticist who turned his
attention to human genetics after retirement, has said the human genome
is deteriorating at one or two percent per generation. The real question
is, how many more generational cycles before collapse?Certainly baby boomers are not getting any smarter. I learn technical stuff, but only because I have to. A tech-savvy society demands tech-savvy employees to pull the levers, stoke the knowledge burners and ring the caution bells when the high-tech pressure cooker over-inflates and takes off in whatever direction it was already going.
Maybe that is part of the problem. Is being tech-savvy the same as being educated? Do we actually educate anyone anymore? While there are a lot of definitions of stupidity, most of them indicate that the exercise of stupidity leads to a poor outcome – both for ourselves and others.
Well, how might we apply that to history? We might decide that becoming a dictatorship instead of a republic is bad for personal freedom. But then we would have to know what a dictatorship looks like, and how it takes hold. If we don’t have that information, we are forced to rely on the truthfulness of Hollywood in telling the story over two hours in a movie theater, or a few half-hour segments on TV. If you are good with those options … well I’m sorry, but you’re tottering toward stupidity.
History is the big backdrop in the theater of our lives that each of us struts back and forth upon during our brief stay here. The backdrop sets the mood and tone, we add the events of our time. The fabric that we weave becomes the future.
This big backdrop allows us to see patterns in current events that look the same as those we see in the backdrop. Certain events, repeated over, lead to disease, starvation and death. Other events lead to vibrancy and life. Spotting these early on can make all our lives better – or much, much worse.
Not spotting these patterns for what they are leaves us not at the mercy of random events, but at the mercy of others who do see the patterns and are using them to drive us down a road we would not otherwise willingly travel.
God tells us that the last road humanity takes will lead to a place so terrible that our extraction will require divine intervention, “or no flesh will survive.” The world leader we find at the end of that long road is not going to be our friend. The tapestry of history makes this quite clear. But it does require “eyes to see.” Do you have them?
Now that is a good read!
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