The world
has always been a mixed place, full of conflict and competing ideas. Of
course we now have it all thrust in our faces each hour, every hour as
the program directors on the TV channel sort
out what they decide is the juiciest news. The agenda is usually dramatic topped with disaster and a touch of carnage.
Is
this a true picture of our planet and the people living on it, or is
this a complete distortion of the reality which faces the billions who live
here. Are we kept in an unnatural state of perpetual tension because we now know what is
happening in
specific corners of the world as if these problems were in our own back
yard. Even the misery caused by these upheavals have an effect on us, magnified by the natural concern we have for the
poverty and distress of people caught up in the disaster.
So the world is a mess. The man made struggles and conflict add to the natural problems which starvation and lack
of sanitation bring, often also brought on by man's inability to act in terms of the needs of others.
Boil
all this down into a national multicultural soup where culture and
tradition clash, where the failings across the world are seen by some segments
in the soup as somehow the result of Colonial and Post Colonial excess. Where
religious tension is
blamed on anything other than the inherent tensions built up by religion
itself. Where colour seems to signify an inherent fault line as seen in
countries who in the past we knew so little
about but who are now on our screens in such bloody gore.
As
one of the worlds melting pots we are faced in this country with a
clamour, well away from the actuality of their natural home (home is now claimed
as here), for equal recognition in all kinds of things which are seen as pretty
alien to the indigenous
population. Is it any wonder we are faced with terrorism and bombs left
unattended to blow anyone in this multicultural exercise up, since one of the last things a terrorist would wish
is for there to be harmony.
Of course this harmony comes at a price. We have to put the past behind us for an uncertain future. A future in
which we recognise
that what we do and approve of is a manufactured thing suggested as
necessary to accommodate the equally manufactured world around us.
Normal evolutionary biology has been supplanted
by a subset of the human mind, a set of criteria to fit the master plan of global activity and planning.
The plans and their effects on the human race has moved away from being beneficial to humans to being beneficial to the corporate. On the eve of robotic
artificial intelligence we are becoming redundant and with it, the protection
of an ethical morality.
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