On March 8th 2014 at 12.41am Malaysia Airways flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, China with 239 passengers and crew on board. Forty minutes later the pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, transmitted his last message to Malaysia trafiic control as the aircraft left their area and was due to enter Vietnamese air space, “Good night Malaysian three seven zero.”
Then the plane disappeared. It never entered Vietnamese air space. No further word was heard from any of the crew and all communcation systems were shut down.
Based on modern satellite technology, theory says that the aircraft then headed back over Malaysia before turning south, out over the Southern Indian Ocean, where it is assumed it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
Despite many long searches, it has never been found.
It is now eleven years since the aircraft went missing and a new search of the Southern Indian Ocean is about to get underway. There are lots of clues to suggest it is somewhere deep down in that turbulent ocean….
…but suppose…just suppose…. it isn’t there at all….?
“2025 Doomsday Clock Announcement January 28, 2025 In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, the Science and Security Board sends a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.”
Week 3 ofTrump 2 has just ended. Just another 205 to go, assuming he doesn’t wangle a second term. He’s already put an end to any hope of keeping global temperatures within the Paris Agreement of 1.5 degrees.
It’s truly hard to assess potential future scenarios after the chaos of this week. At best, it’s all hot air and ego; at worst, chaos and the possible end of humanity.
The biggest question to be answered right now, is how democratic leaders will react to his intentions. Will they cower and let him walk all over them, scattering Palestinians to the winds, ass-crawling to that latest addition to the gang of dictatorial psychopaths who control so many nations these days?
Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Mohammed bin Salman, Nicolas Maduras, Viktor Orban, and now Trump and Musk to name just a few of the fifty or so dictatorial leaders scattered around the globe.
While Trump plays his silly tariff games with other nations, it will hurt Americans just as much as the Chinese or Canadians. So what if we have to pay a bit more for certain items? Hell, we’ve survived a couple of World Wars, haven’t we? Trump, like all other dictators is a narcissist and a sociopath. He enjoys saying no to people and watching them squirm.
The real danger to the world right now is Elon Musk. His lust for power is evident and Donald Trump is his path to achieve it. He has a warped, evil view of how the world should be and wants it remodelled as he sees it in his head. The idea of one man being able to change the world to suit their individual ideology has been at the forefront of many dictators’ minds since the dawn of time. None has yet succeeded, though many have enforced it in their own countries, to the detriment of its citizens.
Musk’s view that “free speech” leads to freedom, is so unbelievably biased as to be obvious. One only has to look at social media, and Twitter (X) in particular, to realise that free speech, spread like viruses via social media, distorts truth until it is destroyed, replaced by lies and propaganda that produce an unrecognisable form of reality.
I doubt there’s one person alive today who can predict the future with surety. So many lies and deceits have been perpetrated by political influencers. Most of them are via social media and headed by the ultimate influencer, Elon Musk. Musk has over 200 million followers on Twitter(X). Truth is no longer a virtue to seek. Truth has become merely what someone chooses to believe, based on the influencer’s words and the number of followers who hang onto them. It’s important to be part of the crowd, the followers. Human beings need to belong to a community, especially online. If there’s a “woke” crowd to be jeered at and taunted, so much the better. Tribes, whether online or at football matches, need someone to disagree with, enemies from the opposing tribe to make fun of, or in real life to pull faces at, to kick and punch in the pursuit of their own misshapen truths.
With the election of Donald Trump as the latest President of the United States the Doomsday Clock moved one second nearer to midnight . The closest it’s ever been to Doomsday, since it’s inception in 1947.
Perhaps it is time to welcome the cleansing effects of climate breakdown. Neither Trump nor Musk will lift a hand to stop it. Maybe, when it’s too late and the White House is burning, they may be forced to reconsider? One way or another, climate change has seen off many of evolution’s unwanted species, whose continued existence would eventually damage the planet. Surely, there is no more prime candidate for extinction than the ravaging, greed-driven brutality of Homo sapiens.
“A move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.”
I wonder if there’s a way of measuring the world’s depression scientifically, because after yesterday’s fiasco in Washington I believe depression throughout the planet must be off the charts. It was bad enough before, what with climate change, the wars in Ukraine, the horrors of Sudan and the Middle East. Now, with the bedlam Trump & Co have already started to pump out, one is inclined to ask if the poor camel can bear any more straws on its back.
Trump is such an un-masculine person, which is not to say he has any worthwhile feminine traits. He’s just not a man. He has no dignity, no charm, he lacks any sort of attractive personality. He is the epitome of the traditional schoolyard bully.
It’s not just Trump, of course. On his own Trump is lost. He’s a nobody. Like a vampire he feeds off those around him, sucking the juices of any intellect they may have, to provide his deteriorating brain cells with policies he can use to prop up his insecurities. Because, inside this overly-loud, brash and unpleasant person dwells a little boy, still crying for the love he never received from his father.
Then we have the “Tech” brigade. Zuckerberg, Bezos, and let’s not forget Elon the Muskrat at the inauguration yesterday giving his fascist salute to the world…
…what a pathetic, little boy image. It’s almost sad, but not quite. Cringeworthy? Absolutely. As Rebecca Shaw wrote in her Guardian article recently, they are all cringeworthy:
“Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to invent a new number) like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things lie ahead. But I’m here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the sprinkling of salt in the wound.
Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe.
I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers…”
Yes, Rebecca, you got it in one. These are not men. These are little boys playing men’s games. They think the vast wealth they’ve aggregated makes them something special, above the rest of us, creatures of divinity almost, not realising they’re just victims of their own overblown, out-of-control, egos.
Yesterday marked the beginning of something of which we have yet to know the end. I believe it will not be a fairytale, a world united in benevolence. There are a myriad of possibilities and everyone is a disaster, both for the human race and for the planet.
And all because of little boys so desperate to be men.
