Movies of our unavoidable end keep filling up the white screen. 12 Monkeys, Children of Men, Instinct, I am Legend, The Day After Tomorrow...A few “best of the best” that come into mind. They all focus on one notion: “We will be the end of us”. Every time I watch a similarly themed movie, I try to put it in context with the realities we face today. The math is so easy, but the explanation is equally harder.
How could we, the most insecure creatures on this Earth, become the most powerful? Our insecurity, which is our biggest weakness is the only driver to all the force we impose on this world. I am a part of the whole scenario and I do nothing to change it. We kill more than we eat and put the extra food in freezers. We cut more than we use and keep the extra on displays so that our eyes could feast upon the wonders we create while we take a stroll around the block. It is sad to think that we will not change a single habit until nature will no longer be able to sustain our greediness.
Until Bear Stearns went bankrupt a few weeks ago, loans flew from money lenders as if there were no tomorrow. Yet now anyone who has enough economic say in the business arena is burning with ideas to limit the amount of lending across the universe. We learn from the papers that this is the way its been done for centuries. Until we are hit on the head with a stick, we don’t look back, we don’t think twice and we enjoy today if there were no tomorrow. Global warming? Who cares! We will ski less and suntan a bit more. Price of rice rising? Didn’t Marie Antoinette say “Let them eat cake”?
the end is near! i agree, it is a strange thing. the lessons from Easter Island have been unlearnt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island