Frozen

What does it take to become an ice cube? Does one go sit in the freezer and watch one's own blood turn a tepid hue and then solidify to a blue of an icicle? What an analogy.

I think the human nature is finding it's darker forces at work, as the time flies and civilization moving forward, is sliding backward into a pit of violent cave man like thinking. Except in the case of the cavemen we could give them the benefit of the doubt. They were allowed to be that aggressive for they had lesser knowledge, lesser empiricism on their side and a need to survive the harshness of an open wilderness. But here in these tall buildings, these granite grandeurs that one passes by every day, the cars whizzing past in lanes so fast you do not even have the time to acknowledge it happened, here in the here and now - why do we see the caveman emerge again?

I think if one gets a chance to read Stephen King's book "Cell", he seems to have grasped the actual horror of what is happening to us. We are becoming animals again. Ugly, violent with no control on our baser instincts. Is this what being civilized has accorded us? When did the self begin to prevail so much that it went beyond the bounds of selfishness to pure hedonism. Each man literally an island unto himself. Humanity as an emotion standing at the edge of an abyss about to fall in. And once humanity the emotion falls into that all pervading dark, then humanity as a species has little or no hope.

Wars over religion, bloodshed over economics, scaled down silent battles on terror whereas the forces of good are themselves the biggest terrorists. A game of greenbacks, oil and absurd wealth that each country is after. And the self same countries then translate the same to their individual citizens. Where is the humaneness of religion, the economics of giving, the simple act of kindness that sets us apart in the species jungle. Nowhere....sad and despondent as this piece may seem there is always light at the end of the tunnel. The Lamech Vavniks may pray us out doomsday, but there are more than them. There are some good people left. But their numbers are in deep reduction, almost like the white Bengal tiger, the good have are becoming an eradicated genus.

God...? Force? When and where did we make Him such a mythical creature that we almost stopped believing as a cumulative mankind, that He exists. It is not enough we worship in our individual hearts. God the myth also has to be translated into more than just an emoticon on our IM's. Wake up people. Somewhere in all of us lies the beauty of creation and if we could see it in ourselves perhaps we will be able to see it and care for it in all other forms.

Ciao.