The world is going to hell in a handbasket, as everyone knows. Global warming, crushing debt, wars, occupations, terrorism, and moral decay assault us on every hand. Such things make me weep for our Western Civilization. But what can be done? Nothing, friends, absolutely nothing.
It is not possible to solve our problems merely by attacking them one at a time with common sense, logic, and hard work.
No, that approach has been tried before, and failed miserably. And here is the proof: problems still exist.
In fact new problems arise on practically a daily basis!
There are no easy answers, is the sad truth. And if there are no easy answers, then obviously, there are no answers at all. Even worse, to even start working on these problems would necessitate admitting they exist, and that we have been wrong about certain things in the past. These preconditions are impossible to meet.
The truth is no one can fix anything, and we have no control over the difficulties we find ourselves in.
And yet, just possibly,there is a way to fix all of these disasters without anyone having to admit they were wrong and without anyone having to work together.....
The Black Death. Yes, another Great Plague! Just like the one that killed a third of the population in the Middle Ages.
Hundreds of millions of people will perish, which would be unfortunate. But soon after, a Golden Age will dawn. It will be called the Renaissance, and it will solve all our problems and usher in a New World!
Doesn't anyone recall those brief shining centuries when the entire world pulled together and invented the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Age of Exploration, and finally the Industrial Revolution?
Can't anyone remember the flowering of art and science that followed the Great Plague?
Never was there a time when our beloved Western civilization was so united, so unified against our common enemy - ignorance, disease, and of course, Islam. Never was there a time when people were so devout and creative.
But those wonderful times we only read about in history books could be ours once again! Imagine living in the time of Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, and even Shakespeare!
All these people lived in the time following the Black Death. Coincidence? I think not. If only we had another Great Plague, these times would return.
Western Civilization would once again be the envy of the known world, which of course would be much smaller, with the consequent reduction in world problems.
Friends, only another great Plague will wake people up to the problems we face and give us the unity to solve them. The entire world will unite behind the great kings of Europe, the Pope, the Medicis, and eventually even Henry the Eighth.
America might even be discovered for all to enjoy.
Finally, let me make it plain, in calling for another Black Death, I am not hoping for one, just pointing out it would be good if it did happen and wishing that it does. There is a great difference between hoping something happens and wishing it happens.
I expect to be criticized for this diary, because many of the readers here are small-minded, mean, and hateful, like the Nazis and the KKK.
But for the rest of you, for the sake of our children, please join me in praying night and day for the return of The Black Death in order to save our civilization.
UPDATE: After writing and posting this, a friend called my attention to this column by William Wolfrum entitled "To Save America We Need The Black Death:
http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/...
It is actually a better and more precise parody than my own, and I'd like to point to his great writing as well, since I just discovered it.
And of course, in all modesty, great minds think alike. Or there is no new joke under the sun, or something. Anyway, read it.
