There is a need of escapism, also laziness, it's easier to believe science will create a solution in the nick of time. It was A C Clarke who said there is yet to be proof that intelliegence is a survival trait and also a prevalent thantos desire among people of certain faiths, they want to see the world destroyed as then their deity like a bus comes to get them. The self/mass destruction is not a species thing, it is a programming thing, people are programmed to believe things, and it takes work to break the programming and rewrite it.



So far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which men have passed to supreme power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, freer life, with a broader outlook on the world. This is no small service rendered to humanity. And when we remember further that in another direction magic has paved the way for science, we are forced to admit that if the black arts has done much evil, it has also been the source of much good; that if it is the child of error, it has been the mother of freedom and truth.

Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.

Up at the crack o dawn, see the mirage of morning decend upon a sleepy seaside town, the elementary particles, positive ions haze the oceans calm surface, above a turmulous sky hangs omminously. I drive to babylon, empty roads, sunlight hits in angles, the early bird dog walkers, the healthy, meet with the all nighters, the 24 hour party people all seeking caffine stimulation in the single coffee shop. It's the first day of a new year, its the same day as yesterday, yesterday saddam hanged, today some one else will hang, a war will start but a war won't stop, a child will die and one will be born, a man will be beaten to a pulp becuase he don't follow the rules of another mans invisible friend, a border will change, money exchanges are made, transactions to sell bodies and souls. its not really a new year its the same old one.

what are my plans for the new year. I am going to win some $, and buy a house.