Noah's Ark, Epstein, and AI Data Centers
we only have ourselves to blame
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Hello friends.
I’ve been feeling quiet lately. Quiet, reflecting. Pondering life and the world and getting older and … all the things.
I’m reading a new book called “The God of Our Fathers” by Aldo Cazzullo (who will be coming on the podcast soon). The book is my kind of book - a book of stories where Aldo walks us through various stories in the Bible while also walking us through various stories from his life and our world.
A true gem.
The other day I was reading his thoughts about Noah (and I’ll actually share a quote from the book in this week’s “Friday Offerings”) and something struck me.
You remember the story, right?
God created the world and after so much violence and hatred entered the picture and God “saw that human evil was out of control” (Genesis 6:5, MSG), God decided to destroy the earth and start over again. God would spare Noah and his family and 2 of every kind of animal so that they could repopulate the earth and begin again, but everyone else?
Dead.
Sounds dramatic, I know, but it’s not a cute story - other than Noah, his wife, his 3 sons, and some animals … God literally killed every man, woman, child, animal, and living thing by drowning them in a monsoon of sorts that swallowed up the entire earth.
Like I said - dead.
As the story goes, it rained for 40 days and then the winds died down and the rain stopped and eventually the ark that Noah had built came to rest on dry ground. He opened the doors to set the animals free and the earth began to re-populate.
(*SIDE NOTE: lots of people tell me that this is a historical story, which makes me chuckle. I mean, heck - I used to think it was historical too … that is, until someone asked me how Noah’s 3 sons came to have kids of their own if the only woman to survive the flood was their mom. That’s weird, man.)
Fast forward to present day and although God isn’t killing every living thing on earth with a flood of rain, we’re doing a pretty good job of bringing death and destruction to ourselves and the earth as we (humanity) flood it with …
Hatred.
Wars.
Political Stonewalling.
Coverups.
Injustice.
… merged with an overall lack of care for creation so that as temperatures rise - glaciers melt, sea levels rise, and (yes) floods devastate parts of the country and the world on a regular basis.
I mean - have you read through any of the Epstein Files?
Have you read the grotesque things that have been done by Republicans, Democrats, and the rich and powerful that stand on all sides of the political spectrum, doing all sorts of things in the world - in politics, in religion, in the arts, in business? World leaders are implicated as are famous authors, inventors, and even spiritual leaders who have risen to the top of the world of self-help.
And?
In the United States, anyways.
Not a single arrest.
Not a single consequence.
… nothing.
Yes - we are quite literally destroying the world with hatred for one another, irrelevant wars, billions of dollars spent on weapons of mass destruction, political coverups, (what feels like) a free pass to millionairs and billionairs to do whatever they want, no matter how grotesque or unthinkable - to adults, to children, to animals, to the earth.
AND.
So.
Much.
More.
God continues, though, to hang his (rain)bow in the sky after every storm so as to remind us that he has hung up his weapon against humanity, that he will no longer wage war against his creation … that the only ones we have to blame for the devastation around us is ourselves.
What is the answer?
Phew, I don’t know.
I wish I had one.
I found myself swimming through the story of Noah this week, though, as I read about the War in Iran, the Epstein Files, the tearing down of land to build AI Data Centers around the country, the hatred that the Right has for the Left, the hatred that the Left has for the Right, the ways in which World Leaders speak to each other, the way people are struggling to get health care and pay their rent and mortgages and put food on the table even if they work 1, 2, 3, or 4 different jobs, how teachers are making less and less money while given more and more students to teach.
Sigh.
Not much has changed since the days of Noah, has it? Much like God (in Genesis 7), I see “that human evil is out of control. People think evil, imagine evil - evil, evil, evil, day and night … it beaks my heart.”
And yet?
Much like Noah - it only takes a single person to change everything.
That’s a radical thought, I know … but I believe it. I believe that the key to changing the world is for one person to look in the mirror and decide to be different.
And then for another.
And another.
And another.
And another.
One man changed the world in Genesis 6 and (I believe) that 1 person can spark a change in the world in 2026 - no matter how much evil is raining down around us.
And so today, that’s what I do - I choose to look in the mirror and instead of obsessing over everything that’s wrong, I will do my best to do (what I sense is) right - to live a life of love and grace and compassion and kindness; and hope that it might be contagious enough to catch on to one person, and then to another, and another, and another so that humankind will float atop the flood waters, ride out this storm, and re-populate the world with the love that we all have buried deep inside of us.
May it be so.
Much love,
Glenn || SUPPORT / ART STUDIO