The end...

This movie is long and depressing, but worth watching: Life at the End of Empire

There is more: the What a Way to Go Movie

But, I think, it is already too late. We are Wile E. Coyotee, hovering over the abyss, just beginning to look at our situation. But we have taken our whole world with us and we will all fall together.

There are enough people to whom others and the world are merely resources, with enough power and determination to perpetuate their privilege as long as possible, that there is no hope of a soft landing - the end has come. Yet, for a little longer, I live in interesting times.