Adam Hibberd
I live now powerless in the depressing context of a planet occupied by what I once would have called an ‘intelligent race’ and watching helplessly as humanity suffers and slides into an abyss of eternal darkness, never to be remembered, without any lasting legacy, having made little or no enduring impression on the universe.
This despite the likes of incredible superhuman minds through the centuries which seemingly transcended human limitations, Newton, Einstein, da Vinci, and I would include those further afield, Beethoven, van Gogh, Shakespeare, etc. The incredible impact all these geniuses have made will have lasted only fleetingly in this magnificent cosmos, their continuing flame will be snuffed out, unceremoniously extinguished in the face of a new and more powerful force: our huge stupidity.
The human race has elected leaders, and in particular a leader, with an infantile and truly embarrassing ignorance of how to comport themselves, let alone their respective nations. Upon reflection, in the face of this new force of moral emptiness and visionary vapidity, how could these geniuses, and for that matter the whole of humanity, possibly have stood any chance whatsoever?
I do still feel passionately however that there is something really important that I personally could have done to end this debacle, and this is the simple yet obvious notion of formulating a vision for humanity’s future. Not a manifesto full of promises to be approved and held to account on, and not a vision to line my own pockets as quickly as possible, but instead one with real long term foresight for all of us, no matter what our race, beliefs, income. A passage onward through stormy and treacherous waters, a way forward though the largely self-inflicted wounds we have suffered ourselves, as a species, and those inflicted on our only, fragile yet precious life support, the planet Earth.