The End of 'is'

'Is' is over. We are now in the age of 'about to be'.

Of course 'is' never really existed: we have always been in a state of change. Until now, however, not all change was perceptible: it came slowly, gradually.It slid by us, visible, as with with changes in the mirror--understood, but nothing to panic over.

That was then.Now change is sweeping solid ground from beneath our feet, leaving us us all with a a deep feeling of unease for which we seek,and cannot find, sufficient justification. Change charges forward through the internet, instant and with huge areas of impact. And it is ongoing. At speed and, at least to our senses, beyond our control.

There was a huge earthquake in Japan today, the largest in their centuries of recorded history. How fitting! An earthquake is a climactic event generally, but not today. With the seas rising,the climate changing(man-made or not),it simply illustrates our ever more visible inability to stop the the real force at work in--and on--the world. The force of nature.

An unnerving confluence. Nature's power,and man's new power to both change what is in the affairs of men, and to see, record, and convey to the bulk of the planet riders, that 'is' simply isn't any more. Not in the physical world, nor in the affairs of men.

We are, after all,on a small ball spinning in a vast,unfathomed void called Space.
We live trusting that that ball will go on spinning.Trusting in the permanence of anything is getting harder every day, and rightly so, because everything is about to be.