if you haven’t noticed, we’re living in the age of catastrophe. the grim truth that many of us are not facing is that our civilization is now beginning to collapse in very real and serious ways. the freedom we’ve known as american freedom has evolved into a cancerous disease that has poisoned the world and morphed it into “american freedom to get ahead at all cost”. capitalism doesn’t work the way they designed it and there is nothing we can do about it. we’re blinded by the condition called humanity and have edaciously ended up back to the future just stronger, bigger and faster than societies of the past. some of history's largest dynasties (before the western looting formally began) were powerful dynasties as the persian empire also known as the achaemenian empire, the kingdom created under cyrus the great stretched from iran into central asia and egypt. Then you have the han dynasty established in 206 bce, china’s han dynasty lasted more than 400 years and expanded from china into vietnam and korea or the umayyad caliphate established following the death of muhammad in 632 ce, the vast umayyad dynasty comprised over 4 million square miles, making its empire one of the largest in history. at the height of the russian empire in 1895 reached 8.9 million square miles and because of its size and influence the empire had played an integral role in halting napoleon’s conquest of europe. british empire early in the 20th century made up nearly a quarter of the planet. it’s may be my ignorant nostalgia but i can't help but questions why those dynasties turned countries and territories are the bain of many of our global conflicts. i won't go into war, climate, hunger, inequality, human rights (to name a few). some have evolved differently than others, the one consistency is we have royally failed at them all yet we go about our business of devouring each other as we’ve been trained to do. it’s a wonderful time to be alive when you can watch history repeating itself without paying for a subscription. we’ve lost sight of our beautifully flawed similarities. we lost sight of what matters and estranged the only thing that can change everything, love but are we too late to reverse the contamination by the moneyed? can we still trust institutions designed for the safety, stability and betterment of we the people? i hope that during this age of catastrophe we may experience meaningful connections, powerful energy to wake up the other side of the human condition called, love.