The torturous act of thinking and loving

The supposed end of the world is coming. In about three weeks, there will be a true deluge of shared crap images on Facebook. There will be a deluge of worthless and sensationalist news reports establishing terror seeking for high TV ratings. And there will be religious bigots selling plots on Heaven, self-flagellating or even committing suicide. And in this atmosphere of chaos and bizarreness we could reflect a little about the human race.

What today's man changed faced to those from the Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Age or Modern Age? Except for the development of the sciences and technology, maybe just a little in what concerns to civility. It may sound an exaggeration, but are we really more civilized, more critical, more intelligent?

Let's look around us. Is slavery really over or does it only changed the name to wage labor? Did we really acquired more political powers or are we being modeled by a culture that dictates how we should think and express ourselves? Does democracy really exist or is it just a fallacy because the population doesn't take part of politics and their single effective political power is voting? If we are rational, why do we consume by the necessity of having a succeed life instead of a good life? Why do we destroy the nature? Why do we see people starving, murdering, suffering and our maximum gesture is disguising pity and crying tears of vapor?

We are getting stupid, we are decaying, we are boiling down to and treating people as things, objects. The word “humanity” should be banned of the dictionaries by the group of the language control: it has a pejorative connotation due to its association to a specie that destroys nature, the other animals and themselves.

It lacks love to the world. It lacks courage to the world. It lacks respect to the world. It lacks the minimum of intelligent to feel besides their bellies to the world. I just would like to live in a world that worked properly and not where even the most basic thing – thinking and loving – the man haven't learned yet.