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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Put your wallet, keys and passport in a plastic bag, and you can board the plane.
If you have no idea what I'mtalking about now, go watch BBC.
Perhaps I really should have started with this.
'What the fuck is going on in this world???'
If you are currently still befuddled by what I am talking about, allow me to let you in.
Terrorism, this rising threat that the world faces now. The new and supposedly hopeful twenty-first century, brimming with the new concept of the world as a Global Village, loaded with the current advances of technology, and the knowledge dug out deep from centuries ago, has fallen flat with an embarressing 'plop', right back into the sinkholes that it belongs.
One often expects, that when a new century rises from the shrouds of the old one, in this case the twentieth century, that the next hundred years would see an improvement from the previous one. Even more so for the millenium, of which humans have only, to date, witnessed three. The next thousand years, would be the band aid, the medicine, to forget all that had happened in the last violent millenium, and especially the horrors of the past hundred years.
Such hopes were dashed nine months and eleven days from the day the new millenium was born. With the violent and shocking 911 attacks on America (I hardly need remind you), one could safely say that this new millenium has charted its course for being a dismal flop.
In the past five years, roughly the same timespan as the world wars that we were assaulted with in the last hundred years (less even), we have faced numerous terrorist attacks, and the rise of several prominent groups that threaten the very foundations of human morality.
And once you think it has stopped, that they have slowed down, especially with the death of Al Zarqawi, we have once more been proven wrong. This goes to show, that they will never stop going. In fact the deaths of Saddam's sons and the capture of this illustrious demon have fueled their desire and passion to, simply put, kill more people.
If you think they're done, think again.
A massive scale attack, larger so than the 911 attacks (how could one even think it possible!), terrorism has once more reared its ugly face. Today, it has been announced that there have been plans to bomb nine US planes leaving UK, through some sort of liquid bombs. All over the UK airports, there have been great delays, and passengers are only allowed to take on board as hand luggage, their keys, wallets and passports in plastic bags given to them. 21 arrests have been made so far, but how exactly does one know whether all have been caught.
They're like ants, these terrorists. Kill one, and another one comes in to take its place.
Really though, the blame falls on Hitler, our dear fuhrer.
Truly, it was he who brought out the worst of mankind. What truly disinguishes the World War II as the most horrific war, is not only the fact that total extermination of a single race was begun, but that mankind failed its test in humanity.
Yes, there was the significant but small number of people who retained that morality of human beings that seperates us from non-living things, those who resisted. But the fact of the matter remains that most of the people in this world were completely ignorant, no, indifferent of the annihilation of 6 million people.
Such powers like the US, Britain and the Pope (the Pope!) ignored the pleas of those dying and burning alive in the crematoriums of the cruely constructed concentration camps.
Why does everyone hate Hitler? Asides from the obvious obvious reasons, there is another obvious reason. It was he who was the lock to the drawer that kept shut the devil. It was he who showed that human beings are cruel. It was he, but really, through us, that killed humanity.
Adele said that World War 3 would be the last war on Earth. We would annihilate ourselves with nuclear bombs.
I do agree, and add on to that fact that it would probably, sadly, horribly, with a twisted fate, be between religions.
Another ironic fact, in the way that it will be technology, that was our blessing, that will probably be our undoing.
Or who knows, truly, perhaps with a vicious and merciless hand we would continue to erase little snippets of human life here and there, and when world war 3 finally comes, it would finally annihilate the tiny, pathetic, countable human beings that remain.
Goodbye, cruel cruel world.
[ T-ray* ] blogged @ 4:09 AM
