This Too Will Fall Apart

Everything falls apart - even concrete.

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The customer asks the contractor about his newly paved concrete driveway, “Is this concrete guaranteed”? The contractor replies, “It’s guaranteed to crack”.

That’s a standard joke amongst contractors. Customers rarely laugh. We’d all prefer that what we wish to last often disappoints. These days, perhaps more than ever.

Here at the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century, Ares seems ascendant. Wars and rumors of war spread across the world. Dark mutterings of WWIII cast shadows on the future. Generation Z fritters away its time because – who knows if tomorrow will dawn as usual or, as thermonuclear apocalypse.

The fear might even be warranted.

I wonder if Generation Z will sign-up for combat. Generation Z seems averse to showing up for work; signing-up for war seems even less likely.

On the other hand, everything eventually falls apart - even concrete.

Will the world end in fire, or rain, or only decomposition? I can imagine inevitable decomposition. When all human aspirations cease, the stillness will be disturbed only by the thump and bump of buildings and machines falling apart.

I suppose when civilization ends, the animals, plants, and protozoa will barely notice. They’ll continue in their usual unconscious cycle of: Birth; Growth; Fullness; Decay; Dissolution. This is the consistent course of all that ever was - or ever will be.

What’s the use of all these temporal creations? Is it pointless fun, or is there a purpose to it all? Only humans are conscious of the pattern. When the sentient world of humans ends, will the pattern end as well?

Does the pattern depend on being noticed - to exist? How would anyone know with no anyone’s around?

Will the world continue to churn along without human consciousness - without eyewitness – endlessly - through the vapid nothingness of everything. Or does it cease to exist when there are no humans to acknowledge or perhaps, to pretend, it’s real.

Many believe God dreamed the world into being - complete with life, death, and an uncountable complexity of star systems. Many also believe God made man in his own image just so someone could admire his handiwork”

Rene Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am”. Maybe consciousness is prima facia evidence of God. Maybe there is no God. Many believe so, however their case against God is not based on evidence. It’s based on lack of evidence.

Evidence is based on conscious knowing.

When the world ends, will we awaken to reality.

Or is there nothing that concrete.

By K. L. Shipley

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