The Changing Face of the World

Globalization is a big thing nowadays, we have a literal deluge of people on this planet. And of course, with people come huuuuge structures and thousands upon thousands of houses. With every new person (in Canada at least) comes a new car and a new group which consumes resources. I ask myself, how long can the abundance of North America last? Nothing lasts forever and I think personally that we're living in the best and last days of this civilization. Times are changing, where once there were only white people and black people in North America, now there are brown people and yellow people, each with their own way of life and their own way of thinking. With resource consumption at an all time high, we are headed for an inevitable downward spiral if you ask me. With all our industry comes the tiny little molecules of literally floating shit that we call pollution. Pollution is heavy, and it touches too many places to count. Air pollution, Light pollution, Food poisoning and vegetable poisoning with pesticides, Water pollution, and of course, the joyfully beaming rays of the sun. Against all this, we have our grand civilization. If you ask me, the times we're living in where similar to the times that the Ancient Romans were living in. Sure we're more advanced, but look at this for a moment: Rome/America, can both be considered the capitals of the world in a sense that they possess the most power, In Ancient Rome, sexual debauchery was just as widespread as it is today, Rome was a cosmopolitan country, as North America is gradually becoming, and of course, Rome collapsed which is what our society will probably do in the end as well. If you ask me, America's bid for the very top is gradually coming to end. Who's going to replace them? I'll tell you: CHINA. The Chinese are coming up in the world and they're begininng to show some muscle. There are so many people in China that once the economy can match the United States, the States wont have a chance. Another thing about our world which has changed, or gone back to the way it was, is the cult of violence. At least in North America, violence, like sex, is a commodity which appears widespread. The more violent society gets and the more violence that is shown, the more our young generation can become de-sensitized by it. If there are people who are campaigning to get rid of the violence, then they are from a generation which was born in a time when violence was nothing of what it is today. My parents always told me that back in their day, you'd never hear of people getting shot so many times. I dont know whether that was because people never really got shot, or because the media couldnt touch down on all corners of the globe yet to report that shooting. In any case, our generation is much more inured to the violence around us. In fact, North America seems to encourage the very traits that some psychopaths possess. Are we in danger of creating a psychopathic civilization? No, because even if everyone was a psychopath, one psychopath can't con another because psychopath's dont trust others. There must always be more victims than psychopaths for them to truly succeed, so I think we're safe...for now. In any case, I think as the racial distinction between people and cultures start to blur, perhaps we'll get a unified human race. The alternative to that is that everyone polarizes into their own factions and destroy eachother in an apocalyptic war which will reduce the world to dust. But that seems like a long way off, so we're all smiles here.