A random thought
Days of geographically well spread sporadic cases of fatal terrorism are seeing no end. Is civilization being gradually overrun by terrorism? Pak government is befriending them on papers now. US government is hinting at leaving NWFP and Afghan extremists in peace, due to shortage of funds. Africa has still not stopped being a mockery to democracy. There are separatist movements throughout the length and breadth of third world and communist dictatorship is yet to be eradicated. Are we living in perfectly normal times or are we already in the middle of the third world war, a war against civilization. We should better be pondering now.
Attempts to relate all the violence news in your newspaper can be mentally disastrous
If we consider the entire span of human civilization right from the iron age, men have been looking for excuses to hate others. We have always been most interested in dividing ourselves up into fragments on the basis of race, nationality, religion, community, region and what not. These are intertwined. A man today has so many unique identities to defend, and so many to look down upon. Distinction is good, for governance, for cultural preservation and richness. But there should be a lower limit to the basic unit of this distinction. That’s where we have all messed up. But we are learning and may be in near future we would be genuinely trying too. As of now we sure can dream of a day when all governments would co-exist in peace and there would be a greater morality and consciousness among people. Human life and rights would be universally respected. People would stop hating others who are different from them. But then again, this would happen only when the humanity would have a common object to loathe and fear. Something deadly and totally alien challenging and threatning the entire humanity.
people find reason(s) to hate each other… agree totally
dreaming is not bad… not much can be done… other than keeping the hate at bay and dream that others will improve some day…
we don’t seem to do anything unless we “loathe and fear”… sad… we need to be insecure to make us realise that we must be good!!!
@ronsin
Yeah . Actually that’s what even ragging was initially intended for, until things started going horribly wrong.
Its a social process and has evolved with time. That’s embedded in our biology and we can’t change it. But, again as you pointed out, dreaming is not bad….