Warning: This will tend to make you very depressed with the State of the world.
I have come to the conclusion that, my friends, we are doomed. Royally screwing all of our generation. What was the last really good thing that happened to everyone? Because I sure as hell I can't remember anything.
There is so much goes wrong at this time. Global warming, for example, an issue that is fired too often to be taken seriously. But you must take seriously, the consequences are terrible. I was reading an article in the times2 for a while (do not the intellectual?) describes some of them. I now knew that the situation is bad, but it had no idea of the trouble. A temperature rise of a few degrees could turn this planet into perhaps the tenth circle of hell. Even a slight change would be uninhabitable huge sections. Deserts. Failing that, under the water. It is a situation lose - lose.
A few days ago there were reports of a car bomb outside a huge and popular bar in London. This in itself is depressing and, for some, maddening. But the next day, a car bomb was driven at the gates at the airport in Glasgow, setting itself and its occupants in fire. It was intended to promote at the airport until it exploded. Think of the damage that had been caused. A Saturday, at the beginning of the holiday season. Hundreds of deaths or injuries.
And these are not isolated incidents. Around the world, people are blowing themselves up on behalf of a cause. Who could forget 9/11? Muslim radicals, the others are giving a bad name. He was speaking to a Muslim girl the other day who said that almost all Muslims could never dream of committing such an act. The word Islam itself means 'peace' (greetings to my RE teacher to do this). It is true that there is Jihad - but this is only in circumstances only, for example if Islam is attacked, and no civilians are destined to be harmed. So why does this happen?
Is it that they can't get their views heard? Possibly. It is believed that these acts of mass murder will be rewarded? Possibly. It is what they are, in fact, completely crazy? Possibly.
Now then. Generation of our parents - what to get? CND. The end of apartheid. Free love. A small but delicious range of experimental chemicals. What we get? The greenhouse effect, counter-terrorism, chavs and the holes in the ozone layer. That is, of course, a view very white and negro-no forget Thatcher, or the IRA or the iron curtain. But everything in the past a campaign (peace, end of the prejudice, equal rights) has fallen through. There is no peace in the world. A simple look at any newspaper can tell you. Iraq. Iran. Israel and Palestine. These waves of terrorism. Definitely there are still prejudices (a look at page three of some of the cheaper newspapers tell), and the fans are not helping. And there is still no fully equal rights. Recently, a woman lost her job after getting pregnant. How is that fair?
Another example? A few months ago the shootings of school in America. Again, it is not an isolated incident. And the fact that these students can be so completely cluttered and no one realizes it is disconcerting. That someone can go to College and firing his companions in cold blood, and that everyone will be surprised because ' good, he has just always been rare '.
And I'm going to be honest with you - the hell out of it scares me to the way that the world headed seriously. There are global problems, of course. But we are cluttered at the national level, even local. It is something about the way people live today. So inconsiderate. As that could not give a damn about how that feeling of others.
I admit - what they are reading is useless. Completely useless. Unless everyone - everyone - change the way of life, there is nothing we can do. Without a doubt, it can be recycled. Picking up trash. Give an old woman your seat on the bus. Campaign as much as you want, my friends, because no one will give a damn about you. PR politicians trained in their expensive suits, uninterested as they distributed leaflets in the city, bystanders would listen? Like hell they do. It may take into consideration, yes of course, but then get home, crank the heater, give you a dirty look to the next person black see, pollute rivers with their chemicals and fields and skies, inspire hatred, ignore the people that are going to do something crazy because they have always been so. Selfishness and the thoughtlessness is quite ingrained in society today. And our generation who are suffering for it. Do everything leads to is this fatalistic attitude, you know? Such complete apathy that even the thought of acting against it seems strange. And anyone who tries to make a difference gets screwed on. It is the way it is, that is what has always been. And why no one tries to do anything else. Because they know that they have no hope in hell. And in comparison with knowing that, ignorance is bliss. As they say.