Don’t Worry Be Happy (:->

— By Tommy Acosta

Everywhere the drums of war seem to be beating and people are living in fear.

Will Russia nuke us? Will we nuke Russia? Will NATO unleash its full force against Russia, China and Iran? Will there be a global killing unlike anything the world has seen before?

I think not. The planet’s elite, royalty, those who own the castles, will never let their playground Earth be made uninhabitable by radiation and annihilation.

The current conflicts are being meticulously managed and nourished by the defense contractors of the world.

The grudge match between Russia and Ukraine, the extermination of Palestine, all the little wars in South America and Africa, are designed to bring maximum profits to those making the weapons and selling them. For now, they are quite satisfied with the glut.

One would be naive thinking that the ruling families of the planet whose names you never heard nor will ever hear would allow anything to mess with their kingdoms, especially an inconvenient thermonuclear exchange that could end their dynasties forever.

Sure, they got their hollowed-out mountains and massive underground shelters that would survive an atomic holocaust (just in case), but who wants to live underground for fifty years or more until the smoke clears and radioactivity goes down enough to step outside?

Then, of course, we have our resident space aliens that have made quite a comfortable existence here on earth for themselves. You think they want anything messing with their out-of -this-world and mysterious lives? No way.

The owners of the planet are not going to let the leaders they have installed in positions of power in every civilized country screw everything up.

The appointed could rattle their sabers all they want but no one is going to press that red button and end it all. Nope.

That’s what I tell my worry-wart friends who think the planet is going to nuke itself.

The conventional wars will go on forever, as long as there is enough cannon fodder to keep them in the black.

People will blow each other up, turn cities into rubble and then rebuild them for the next round. But that’s about it. No nuking is in the stars for us.

So, do not let your little hearts tremble at the thought of a mushroom cloud blossoming outside of your window.

It just ain’t gonna happen.

Er…however, there could be a little kink in my reasoning here. If Ai finally becomes self-aware and conscious, for our own good, would it take it upon itself to thin the human herd by any means necessary, and start civilization all over again, as our maker and God?

Hmmm…