Rare Earth Bubble of Doom

We live in a world where we can just take everything we want as though it were on a shelf. If you haven't noticed, we no longer have to go to the store to buy things, or go to the library to read things. So in a sense, it appears that we're becoming slightly telepathic. In a way.

And in yet another way, we're becoming completely backward in our methods for dealing with each other. There is no formal standard for bedtime, no sense of a physical community.

But overall, I have hope for the future when it comes to American interaction with the rest of the world. We just have to start remembering that we can't find all of the answers exclusively in the King James Bible or in On the Origin of Species. But as I've seen it, there is no middle ground for bringing other cultures - their ideas and products (artifacts) into the American mainstream.

So it's my sincere hope that the Natural News is just being speculative with their story Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012, because that coupled with the imminent threat to our water supply might be devastating. But then again, maybe I'm giving middle America too much credit, and their love of cheap TVs and cheeseburgers is going to kill us all.