The title of this post is a quote from the movie The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!. You may remember that the 1966 comedy starts when a Russian sub gets caught on a sandbar off the New England coast. The captain had always wanted to get a glimpse of the USA and unwisely ordered the crew to steer too close to land. The skipper knows he is in trouble and orders a party of men to see if they can find and "borrow" a motorboat powerful enough to pull the sub free.
The US and Russia consider themselves enemies or at least, competitors. The shore party is partially sighted here and there and instant rumors and surmises and inferences shoot around the island. A civilian finds they have opened up the bar and enters. A few minutes later, having heard scuttlebutt, he comes out in a panic, explaining that "it is all over".
This is a case of need for philosophical and psychological questioning. What is "it" that is all over? Life? The US? I am interested in intuitions and predictions of end times, of me, of my country, of my planet. I see many places where the US flag is flying upside down. The inverted flag has been used as a symbol of distress but it may help us all not to jump to feelings of distress on a hunch or a rumor.
