In the wake of the London bombings I've been asking myself a scary question, What next.
It seems that in this sensational media based age, we need more and more to really shock us and, in that respect, September 11th will set the bar for a while yet. But surely the terrorists are anticipating this, planning bigger and more shocking attacks to assault our numbed senses. In many ways the london and Madrid bombings could have been a lot more horrific than they actually were.
My girlfriend made a stunning observation;
"there's no going back, there will never be a time when these sorts of things dont happen"
So are we doomed to a life of ever escalating disasters, the ultimate arms race, will this just naturally end up being an ongoing war of terror? I don't think we can answer that, but I like to think not. I think we need to grow up, as a race. We're stuck here, on this tiny planet, billions of us struggling to survive, and it always amazes me to think what we could achieve if we worked together.
There you go... sorted...
heh, if only. But seriously, the more of us who make ourselves aware, who talk and reason, who live life with passion, and purpose. The more of us who question, communicate, who love, we can have an impact. Over 400 people have read my blog, 400 that's the beginings of an army, we need to start to move, I have no idea where, or how, but the Internet is opening up channels of communication that never existed 20 years ago. we must use them.
All of us, we need to grow up...
2 comments:
At one point it will end. When the people with their finger on the buttons get trigger happy and launch the missiles. But I do agree with what you are saying, the only way to prevent the world from self devastation is to focus on one thing (where's an alien attack when you need one). But if you look, most of the "terrorists" apparently come from rural areas and so know not of the true world, only what they have been brainwashed into. So this throws the whole the Internet united out the window as many have barely seen a computer let alone the Internet. Anyway so long as there are countries, there will be conflicts. So long as they are differences there will be conflicts. Human nature in general has been on long conflict. So there is only way, it will stop and that is if we all conform to a singular way of life or something similar.
P.S was it really necessary to link to wiki about the Internet?
Hi Chris, thanks for the comments :)
But if you look, most of the "terrorists" apparently come from rural areas and so know not of the true world
Unfortunately, as we've just seen, often this isn't the case and they are young, impressionable people. The key is to get the right impression across to them before they are brainwashed.
P.S
re: the wiki link to the internet
I personally find it a fascinating page, and feel that far more people use the internet than understand what it is...
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