“Most days I just want to step outside of my own heart. Go walk under a
sky full of stars…and hear nothin’ but the wind.”
I feel the same way!!
We are born in the century which had the most technological advancements in the history of the world. Technology is supposed to make life easier. However, if you look at now and a hundred years back, the only real advantage due to technology is the world has become a smaller place but on the other hand, man has become lazy, dependant and machine like. Back then, life was simpler and people were happier.
The world today is in a state of chaos. War, terrorism, hatred, apartheid, domination and exploitation, there is no peace anywhere. Every country is slowly deteriorating into oblivion in one way or another. The haves don't worry about the have nots, the world today runs on money and not on emotion. As per recent statistics 'The world's 3 richest people have wealth greater than the combined Gross Domestic Product (the value of all goods and services) of the world's 48 poorest nations. ' Do the rich care about the poor or do they even think about the poor, nah! They are busy expanding their business and building their wealth, so that they can be even more richer.
Take the case of Zimbabwe, the countrys population is already decimated in the last decade, it would be gone from the face of the world in the years to come and the west is doing nothing about it. Nobody cares about a Zimbabwe or Somalia. As per the Guardian, Zimbabwe's inflation is at 1700% (India's is around 6.5% and the FM and the RBI are screaming), the life expectancy there is just 37. Check this article in the Guardian to see what is happening over in Zimbabwe.
For the common man, life has become so uninteresting and devoid of any happiness. Material needs have taken priority over everything else.
We earn more, we have all the luxury, we have the fancy gadgets, we have everything today but if you ask 'Is man more happy now than 100 years back', the answer is No! Our existence today has become purposeless, we are in a sort of rat race, never satisfied, never contended, always striving for more, when we already have enough!
Day by day we are becoming more mechanical, robotic I would say. In future we might not need the robots at all, we will become them!
We are diseased. What is the cure??
4 comments:
Hey, why so pessimistic? What is wrong with technological advancements and the World becoming a smaller place?! Its not only gotten you a job (and not to mention the 'fat' salary), Its also 'established' India on the World's map as an economy to reckon with. None of us know what happened 2 centuries back..we jus have stories of how peaceful life was. Two centuries down the line even our progenies would be saying the same about this century....dont you think so?! The poverty, apartheid etc has been there ever since humans have evolved!! Hey I am happy to be born in the last century....I might not have witnessed the battle of Spartans or seen the serene beauty of so-called-yesteryears...but I got to work with amazing whizkids..like you....and to me thats good enough. The best time for anything is NOW :-)
Ha ha, if you read the post again, I said the world becoming smaller was the only advantage, so I was not against it.
The real problem with the world now is that we people are doing good but we choose to ignore the vast majority of the people out there, the vast majority in the villages, in the countries at war, in the poorer nations, the people who are suffering.
The current generation are a disillusioned lot, chasing material things and living false lives.
And, the getting fat salary and India becoming an economy to reckon with and all that is just crap. Fat salaries in IT jobs is not stuff to feel proud of, we are still in the IT services industry, India has no significant products in the IT space to boast of. The current IT sector boam will go bust one day and that day might be just years ahead. All our IT jobs might just go to some other 3rd wold country which can provide same or better service at even lesser rates.
And btw, this was the century that witnessed nuclear warfare. A Hiroshima and a Nagasaki can never be forgotten.
Ok dude...so why dont you do some charity with the green currency you would be earning soon?!Instead of 'loosing' money and 'wasting' time in the stock market, why dont you join some 'save-the-world' NGO?! I agree the nuclear war started in the last century....but is that the only thing you can think of?! So IF INDIA is not moving ahead...you as the so called youth...what are you doing about it?! Jus writing blogs and cribbing about rules (that you'll def follow in the country you headed to), pollution (isnt America the greatest contributor to Global warming!!??)bad roads/ driving conditions (how many times have you broken traffic rules), politics (dint the watergate scandal, monica lewinsky happen in the great states)..etc...etc...blah...blah... Like I said before, I am gald to be ...right here, right now!!
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You are not paying enough attention.
Q. Ok dude...so why dont you do some charity with the green currency you would be earning soon?
A. 'I Would', besides what makes you think that I wouldnt.
Q. !Instead of 'loosing' money and 'wasting' time in the stock market, why dont you join some 'save-the-world' NGO?!
A. Not yet, I dont give up so easily. Besides everybody who has been somebody in the stockmarket has taken years if not decades to reach there. Besides, you wouldnt know what it is, to call it wasting time.
q. I agree the nuclear war started in the last century....but is that the only thing you can think of?!
a. Ok, besides the wars & all the bad stuff and technological advancements (the only good stuff), tell me what else has happened in the century?
Your arguements are all flawed (more than mine)
Politics that hurts the people happens in India (watergate or monica scandal didnt do so much harm to the common man).Pollution that is harmful to the people happens in India. If you notice, im not cribbing about the roads, I'm excited about driving here.
A whole lot of people cribb in the blogs, atleast they are making an effort to show some emotion. It is far better than all the people who chose to ignore the fact that problems exist in our society and our world as a whole.
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