signs the end is near

No, not the war in Israel or the latest story about fundamentalists saying the end is near.

But the secular press is noting the corruption of society by narcissitic baby boomers, who started out saving the world but who in reality destroyed society because it was all about MeMeME.

so MSNBC/Newsweek asks: Did Baby Boomers sell their soul to the Devil?

and the Daily Mail commentator laments she hates her children...they bore her and therefore laments that raising a human being and training him is a waste of women's talents...(but if you bother to read, it's the Nanny who does all the work)...
Hmmm...used to be that people recognized a lot of stuff in life was not only boring but difficult and hard, but never mind...

Then you have VDHanson points out that most Americans (read elites) think that prosperity, safety, and peace is their birthright...and points to the similarities of this time to the time preceeding the collapse of Roman society...

Most Catholic prophets (e.g. John Paul II) don't think this is the end of the world, but the end of an age...and they base the reading not on a mystical reading of the Apocolypse but from 2000 years of experience of societal change and collapse. And, like Hanson--- or like anyone reading the history series of the Durants--note, there are phases in civilization that ebb and flow, and the signs of collapse are similar: Loss of belief, loss of the work ethic, denial of responsibility, failure to have children...

Hanson elsewhere points out that those who in the US who still work with their hands and face the realities of life have so far escaped this malaise, whereas Europe, with their welfare system, has accelerated the demise...

As the song says: Country boys will survive.

And here in the Philippines, my husband points out that I will always have rice to eat. Of course, as a spoiled American, I also want meat and electricity and airconditioning, but my husband, who has lived thru the depression and the Japanese occupation, is probably wiser in all this than I am.