I just got home from a relaxed night at Sliema with some friends of mine, and as usual the first thing I did was to turn on my laptop. I still had several tabs on my browser still open from earlier on during the day. Amongst several random tabs, including some really cool music a friend of mine had sent me earlier on and the usual Facebook, Twitter and Gmail tabs, a particular article on the Time Magazine tab still open caught my interest. However, and this might be the half dozen Long Island Iced Tea's talking on my behalf, before I proceed with my usual rant, I feel the need to mention this cool track, The Bay, that my friend Andrew sent me earlier on today (see video below.)
Wasn't that an awesome one?! Anyways, where were we? Ah yes, Time magazine, well this article was just a new update regarding the political crisis going on in Ukraine currently (the link is given right here: Ukraine’s Lawless Warzones Recede as Rebel Fighters Fall Back), however it quickly got me thinking about the current situation in Eastern Europe and how sadly, it is at its worst since the time of the cold war and the Balkan wars of the 90's. For all those who know me, you all know how random my train of thought usually is and I wondered a but about the planet we live in, and even though we might live in the part of the world where the situation is not that bad for the average person, and to which most people from other places try to get to, the brutal truth is that the world is a very very ugly place and many countries are riddled with civil war, poverty, religious oppression, so on and so forth.
A lot of people dream that someday in the future, the world will unite and generations yet to come will live in an idyllic society. However, I do not believe that humanity will ever live in such a utopia. If one took a small look at the world's history, consider Communism, it has failed miserably both as a social and also as an economic experiment. And what about the American Dream? If one took a small look at the current situation of the United States, 49% of the American wealth is held by only 1% of the population, and as time goes by, the gap between the rich and the poor keeps becoming wider and wider.
People can call me a pessimist as much as they want, but I think that in the future there will never be any utopias or perfect altruistic societies. I think eventually we'll degrade to a dystopic society which we read about or see in several science fiction books and films, and to quote the great Sheldon Cooper, "society [will break] down into small feral bands of tattooed motorcycle riders fighting to the death over the last few cans of tuna fish". Anyways, I can make several more arguments like the ones of the failed ideologies such as communism or the American Dream, however its 02:03a.m. and I'm really tired. Probably all of this will happen a long time after all those who are reading this article, are dead, myself included, and thus it will definitely not matter. However, if there are any time travellers out there (YES! I'm talking to you doctor!), please do seek me out and answer this one simple question for me: Was I right about all of this? Good night!
