I typically have a positive outlook on life.

Even though I know that the human species is very well do for some rough times, and that a transition in the way we view our planet and each other is inevitable and needed, I still maintain a positive outlook.

But in the past few weeks this has been harder and harder for me to keep up.

Case in point, there is this girl online who I occasionally "get into it" with about the whole 2012 Apocalypse idea. In general I put little faith in conspiracy theories, and even less faith in apocalyptic world views. I don't really believe that the world will end on that day in December on 2012.

But I also think that, while the world might not blow up, what if that were to represent a strange point of no return for humanity? Maybe not even that specific day, but the times we are in now.

I often counter that argument by saying "people have failed at calling "the end times" since people started calling times".

But just as history repeats itself, every point in history is also exactly unique. We have never been so capable of destruction as we are now. The public has never been so informed, yet so confused, as we are now. Popular culture has never been so clever, yet shallow, as it seems now. Tensions linger. Forests burn. Polarities get even further apart.

All of this as Houston continues to endure a drought. I pray for rain soon.