I have to be very careful with this post, because I try to express my opinion on a very delicate issue of our society and I am not exactly sure I will be able to express it in a way that everybody can really understand it. I’ll do my best however and please send comments about your opinion.
The whole idea started swirling in my head after watching the movie Shoot on Sight (Jag Mundhra). It is a pretty good movie, with a storyline discussing the life of Muslims living in Britain in a period when there is a high terrorist alert in the whole country. I am not going to discuss the movie here (I really do not want to spoil it), but as I was watching I think I understood some of the triggers of why we all have this terrorist/racist trouble in our life.
First of all, I think I should point out, that there is no us and them here. If we take ourselves out and look at things from above, there are simply two sides arguing with each other. Both suffer and both make huge mistakes. Those who suffer are generally the ones being less concerned with the ideology of their beliefs. The real masterminds and fanatics are always in the back, controlling the game. Just think about it, has anyone seen a terrorist leader blow himself up? No. He is simply using his gift of being able to influence a few poor bastards to do his dirty job. And this is not just on one side: the great leaders who usually go to press conferences and tell their people that we will respond like this and that, have never actually went to the scene on the heat of battle. The poor soldiers however are being marked for their whole life while doing their duty.
Because of the fighting of the ‘great’ leaders in the back, there is a huge collateral damage: innocent people die in the Middle-East, innocent people die in Europe and America. And there is also the problem of racism. Well, I would not call it that… it is simply: fear. In our mixed world nobody really knows where the problem might come from, so they are afraid of anyone who even remotely resembles their source of fear. We manifest an aggressive reaction to social differences between a human being wearing his clothes in one way and a human being that is wearing it the other way. And yes, that is the terrorists fault: they do not think about their brothers, they just believe blindly their ‘leader’ and cause fear in the ‘enemy’ (well… actually they are not even close to their real enemy). On the other hand, the other side is not without guilt either: it is exactly their stupid actions that have given birth to terrorism, and they refuse to admit it… well, pride is a powerful factor…
The problem here is, I think, that none of the two sides is ready yet, to admit their own failures. It is easier to fall for some fanatic belief and it is also easier to be cautious, rather that try to understand each other.
Words of advice: never follow an extremist and always be understanding. The knowledge of what is good and what is bad has developed in any of us since childhood, we can decide for ourselves. We live in a very nice and colorful world which is being made richer exactly by every difference that we have amongst us. Let us just try to accept that and learn to live in it and preserve it.
My dear Laci Duude,
I’m touched… This is really a moving article.
So the actual problem is that we are not actually seing our own problems, maybe we see them but we are too scared to deal with them… Therefore for each problem pointed out here we need to do something about… is it?
And the BIG question: can we do something/anything about it?
Yes, we can. We only have to TRY to be better. I think it is OK if we fail sometimes, but we try and out of ten times if once we can stand up for ourselves and do good rather that bad, it is better than nothing ;).
I would go far deeper the rabbit hole. All the problems we are talking about are all just consequences and in my opinion it is orchestrated. Somebody owns the league so that whichever team loses, the owner of the game wins all the time. Important is to keep them playing. We are the one to fail recognizing that everything follows an agenda.
Ideology, pride, prejudices and all the things contrary to common sense should not blind you, as you said. But did you ever ask, how these things dig get into your mind?
YES there is a chaos, but … because it is MEANT to be so. It is important to realize that nowadays the greatest war is waging for our very brains, for the ultimate control of our mind.
YES we can do something about it. Free your mind, have your own views, don’t be afraid of beeing different, be creative, follow your own dreams as contrary of those imposed on you (e.g. by society)! If you fail doing that you will get used. The society is engineered so that everybody is acting like an agent following ideas that he thinks to be his own and so the system keeps itself running. Life is getting more and more difficult for the ones who think for theselves and want to follow other ways than the predefined ones. Did you ever ask why in the age of individualism in the western society everybody is thinking and behaving the same way and why they are so ignorant about the rest of the world? You say, because they are too busy with they own stuff? Yes you got it, it is exatly how it works.
To see the bigger picture, one should always step back. If you are too close (i.e. too involved in the mundane shit), you see too many details (i.e. you’re too busy dealing with the things that you are thrown at), so you’ll never get it, you’ll never be able to escape the trap layed out for you. If you don’t STOP and start THINKING freely, than there will be no difference between you and a cheese-chasing labrat running in a labyrinth.
hey tofy… it seems you’ve got much to say…
hint: if the comment is getting bigger than the original article then you should start your own blog. 😉