>>> Frank Masingill on Reflections on modernity 
 FM> "Old" myths can become untrue as literal or historical but I see no
 FM> reason to allegorize them and usually that is a distortion for no good
 FM> reason.  
What looks like a fairy tale, is often expression of psychology, sociology, 
or even technology.
 FM> To say that the world is headed for trouble and that you know
 FM> why is tantalizing. Why now SAY why and how you are able to prophesy
 FM> this?  What are these events that will "get worse?"
Green house.  The polar ice cap is poised to slip into the ocean.  Warming 
trends, dry out forests, causing uncontrolled fires to rage unabated for long 
periods of time, in addition to the usual burning of forests.  So green house 
drying in accelerating release of CO2.  Additionally, there is little hope of 
thwarting the logging companies greed.  They are just too politically strong, 
even here in the US.  Green house excesses will continue to acerbate erratic 
weather.  This year of storms and floods is part of the battering that we are 
creating for ourselves.
Overpopulation and decline of world food reserves.  World wide depletion of 
fish stocks.  Accelerating soil erosion from man made activities.  Increasing 
difficulty of expanding populations to obtain sufficient amounts of potable 
water.  This is not prophesy, this is common sense extrapolation of existing 
trends, some irreversible, others requiring decades or more for recovery even 
assuming that human activity is properly curtailed.  Here's a prophesy:  we 
will be old and gone when it gets ugly.  I sure hope so, pity our youngsters.
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