The year 2100

 The year 2100

  1. In 76 years time what will be left of the world and its peoples?
  2. The good news is that the world will have survived, yet again, despite mankind’s best efforts. History teaches us the world is indestructible. While we worry about the planet we should be more concerned with its creatures, human and otherwise. 
  3. Mankind will have survived albeit in much smaller numbers. Inhabiting a smaller area that a three degree increase in temperature allows. 
  4. I shall not dwell on the misfortunes of mankind because even now it’s not clear which of his many efforts to destroy will succeed in reducing entire populations. 
  5. A chastened mankind will trace an ark towards what might described as good or God because it is no longer a moral preference but an existential necessity. 
  6. Teilhard de Chardin will be proved right but not in the way he had imagined. 
  7. Capitalism will have devoured its own. All possessions are lent to the inhabitants. Virtue is no longer a preference but a necessity. 
  8. The animal kingdom will start recovering especially in areas abandoned by man. 
  9. Music has become mandatory for four hours every day. 
  10. There will be no prisons and no palaces. 
  11. There are no borders because there is only one country. 
  12. There are no locks or safes because there are no personal possessions. 
  13. This reformation comes not out of virtue but out of necessity and from the development of the human spirit in the final ages. 
  14. Armageddon will not see the end of times but the start of a final time welcoming centuries of peace without possessions. 
  15. Before that there will be decades of death and destruction. There can be no avoiding man’s current course. 
  16. But ultimately there will be redemption for the few, not for the many. 
  17. Spirituality has taken over from tribal religions. The natural world - what is left of it - has become our Bible. 
  18. Mankind has returned to eating plants and animals are safe again. 
  19. There are no churches for every home has its own tiny temple. 
  20. The prophecies of many religions will be met, but not in the way imagined.  
  21. Peace will fall like rain and will be collected daily. 
  22. What some call God has watched with interest but without interference. Free will is baked into creation’s DNA. 

May thy kingdom come. It cannot but. 

July 2024 

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