Doesn’t it strike you sometimes, how we might be living in golden years ? A once-in-a-planet’s-lifetime lifestyle. I’m talking about Europe of course – 9/10 of the world population might disagree on this statement.

But here we are, burning away fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow. The shops are full of items from all over – oranges all year: my mother once told me that when they were small, an orange was an absolute luxury, something you got for christmas and ate religiously, part by part.

And the endless transport possibilities also go for humans: attending a meeting in New York is no problem, and what about a holliday in New Zealand ?

Distances have shrunk, information goes at lightspeed. We buy the latest electronic doodah manufactured in GuangDong. We throw away food without a second thought. Our main issues are emotional or spiritual. Survival is not a problem.

Don’t you wonder sometimes how our children and grand children will look back on us ? How for them, barring a major breakthrough, things might be different ? How we will tell about it ?

This time will seem crazy, wasteful and fantastic at the same time. An era of splendor and decadence.

(and the unavoidable background theme by David Bowie:)

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