FOREWARNED

America has turned its course away from glorious civilization and toward the ancient twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The evidence:

* political deception and secrecy is not only flaunted but sought to be deemed moral on the basis of tradition, "the other side did it, too", and the ends "justify" the means

* the government fails to do its main job...protecting us from force...by plea bargaining and early prison releases of hard core criminals, policies defended in the name of expediency

* the use of mind-bending drugs are at new highs, and new lows, reaching into elementary schools

* logic, rationality and morality remain absentee subjects in our public schools

* sitting staring at a box is now America's #1 activity replacing social exchanges, personal explorations and discovery, and contemplation...watching has replaced thinking and doing

* wanton physicality is preeminent and revered in our public language, dress, and the arts

* an inch long shrimp-like creature found hundreds of feet below an Antarctic ice sheet is gleefully hailed as expanding our knowledge of life and where it can survive, while developed, sensing fetuses by the millions are expunged from one inch below the human epidermis as if they were feces

* technology, not spirituality and respect for humankind, is now worshipped as the Almighty

* our Constitution with its magnificent principles is now characterized as a "living document"...which is another way of saying, "we can interpret it any goddamned way we want"

* there is not one globally respected voice that has risen to counter the raging and rampaging moral decadence.

Is it nuclear fire and brimstone that shall bring our civilization to its end...or shall it gorge on itself and devour itself from within?

Or can we and shall we, in time, learn from the past?