People don't see the fragility of the machine because they don't even see the machine. Our lives are functioning in the machine but our culture lags our reality and we still think we function in the BIOS... which is incredible when you realize that most of us know nothing of farming or how to milk a cow or own the land to turn into when the cogs fall down.

Then you have the engineers at the top who want to constantly fudge things, mess with the money, mess with the weather, mess with the atom, mess with biology, mess with DNA, mess with the water shed, mess with our minds, mess with taxes, mess with world trade, mess with outer space, mess with climate change, and you really wonder if they know what they are doing or if the next program is the one that starts a domino effect and brings industrialization to its knees.

post-industrial barbarism is no different than the great tribulation Jesus spoke of.