I give myself up

to whatever the moment brings.

I know I am going to die,

The Roman Empire ended.  Today the US Empire is ending.  The Chinese Empire is ending.  What is left of the Russian Empire is ending.  Likewise ending is what is left of the British Empire, the French Empire, The Dutch Empire, the German Empire.  Indeed, our era of ending is more extreme than the Roman demise. This time civilization itself is ending.  The top-down, hierarchical, patron, patriarchal mode of social organization is ending in the minds and actions of individual persons.  It is also coming unglued in the social practices of communities and nations. It is being replaced with various forms of more democratic and ecologically sane practices.  Civilization as a mode of social organization is unsustainable on planet Earth in the 21st Century.  Civilization is dying, and there is nothing that can to done to save it.  The defenders of civilization (including its gross inequalities and ecological foolishness) are strong and passionate, but they are on the losing side of a viable future for humanity.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down in my skull. Out of one of my temples the sun rises, and into the other the sun sets. The stars shine in my brain; ideas, people, animals browse in my temporal head; songs and weeping fill the twisted shells of my ears and storm the air for a moment. My brain blots out, and all, the heavens and the earth, vanish.