I think of the dashboard of your car. On the Odometer there is a fortune cookie slogan that says "things could be better but its good enough for now" and I think of the human race and how complacent we all are and yet demanding at the same time. Acceptance is different from surrender. Resilience is different from defeat. The world is ending before us and with that a certain sort of acceptance is necessary. Are the FEMA camps ready?Of course they are. We must first rise up from our ashes like the phoenix foretells and accept this before we can act. But somewhere along the time line of events society intentionally got it backwards. Somewhere between  "social activist" and "pacifist" we got it wrong. 

We acted before we accepted and we did so impulsively. Hence we became impulsive people. We have become impulsive consumers, impulsive friends, lovers, partners you name it. The pretense is inevitable. In many ways I believe that although impulsiveness  has been invented  by the authorities  to destroy our spirit, it has now become the key to our survival as a species both on a spiritual as well as primitive basis. The heartbeat of the earth has now sped up and we are picking up on her frenzied chaotic energy. Impulsiveness will become more pronounced as the quickening quickens. Hopefully our of our impulsive induced stupor  will arise a sliver of consciousness that will manifest into awareness on our karmic journey of self actualization.