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Written by Andre Grant

The End of the World as we know it?

So, its the end of the world as we know it. Yeah, I said it. Look, I'm no apocalypto or anything but I know when something is amiss and all these earthquakes, volcano eruptions, sinkholes in Guatemala and shit can't be normal. A sinkhole?! Did you see that thing? It's like God wanted to nail something to the earth and got carried away! That shit just ain't normal. Justin Beiber is famous, we're still talking about CB < Rihanna, it seems like the whole Kanye, Amber Rose thing was a hoax, I mean you just can't believe anything anymore. It's ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. Everything is all backward. Everything is a competing report.

One guy says that babies born today will have a 70% chance of getting diabetes in their lifetime. 70%? That's insane. That's higher than the chance anyone will have sex in their lifetime right? No, it isn't. It was a bit of an exaggeration but you get the point. Yet, another report claims that babies born today will have the longest life expectancy of anyone in the history of the United States! That's progress right? Everything we read and talk about is an exaggeration of some sort of calamity. Everything is doom and gloom. Ten people killed in a tornado in Montana, 100 people killed in a flood in Tennessee. Yet, the world keeps turning on. Turning and turning without ceasing. And, now, the kicker. British Petro popped open a pipe at the bottom of the god dam Gulf of Mexico and let the shit just spill out for a while. Just release, you know, like 2.5 million gallons of oil a day.

Two months, a couple of commissions and a speech or two later it's the worst ecological disaster in the history of the America's. Yeah, the entire North and South American sub continent. Some people say it'll kill all the life in the Gulf. Others, that nature will find it's way around it. Really? If I lived in the Gulf of Mexico and they spilled oil in my fuckin air you know what would happen? I'd die. That's it. Lights out. There would be no poetry. There would be no don't go gently into the night. You wanna know why? Cause if we lived in the gulf everyone would be dead. The poets, the philosophers, the writers, artists, engineers, office workers and everyone else would be motherfuckin dead! Shit, you can't believe anyone anymore. I might as well go down there and test the waters my self. Run a few experiments. I bet I could figure something out. Well, maybe not just me. I bet if we got some people together who know about this stuff and get them in a room and bounce some ideas around we could get this shit worked out. Instead, it's a silly amusement. A joke so dark and bleak and terrible that we have to laugh. Instead, it's become some sort of pop culture paradigm wherein cracking a joke on BP and the oil spill is a must do. You can't believe the stuff people say anymore.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't believe it before but now there's competing information. Now, you definitely can't believe them. Either of them. You can't believe the theory or the counter theory. You better go down there and have a look for yourself. Turn off the pundits on cable networks and ask your neighbors, your friends. Take all their uninformed opinions and place them under the heel of your shoes. Place them there and go see for yourself whats happening. That's what I'm gonna do cause you can't tell me nothing positive has happened in the world in the last 48 hours. But, that's exactly what CNN is telling me. Not one positive thing has occurred that might make me wanna live on this earth a little while longer has happened yesterday or today. Shit. Instead, your happiness is like those Canaries in the tunnels of coal mining caves. Keep messing with bad news and eventually you won't hear it anymore. And when you don't hear the canary anymore it's already too late right? But, let me not be all bad news. The good news is that if you go out there and look for it you'll find some positive shit going down. Shit they don't talk about on the news. Shit they couldn't care less about informing you about. But, like all good things in life you gotta go out there and look for it.

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Andre Grant is Editor in Chief for 5point Magazine.com