Today, even
as you are reading this, hundreds of people are dying, thousands are already
dead millions are homeless refugees and the countless dead weep for those still
alive in this rotten civilization. It almost seems like a prophecy, what Jesus
said to the weeping women of Jerusalem on the way to the cross, “Weep not for
me but for your children…”
Perhaps he
was referring to these later generations who would fight each other millennia
later, not against an invader but amongst themselves. As it has been, so it
shall be again and again and again till the end of time. Man will continue to
be ambitious, greedy, selfish and hungry for more power than he can possibly
control, just because he can and not because he needs to.
Time and
again has history seen that when a people are bound too tight, they will
attempt to free themselves of their chains in order to claim the one thing that
is theirs by divine right – Freedom. Speaking from the viewpoint of faith, even
God it is said has given Man free will to do with life as He pleases. Then why
do men bind men in the chains of slavery when some higher power thought not to
do so? But mankind has always yearned to bind their brethren and the afflicted
have always sought liberation.
It’s just
not about Gaza, it’s about… everywhere! Ukraine, Central African Republic,
Iraq, Thailand and everywhere else that there is strife among people of the
same family. There may be different reasons and they may be right or wrong but the
part that is beyond comprehension is the need to pick up arms at all.
Central African Republic |
Gaza |
Thailand |
Iraq |
Ukraine |
Some
invaders call themselves liberators and some righteous but what is ultimately
right? It is not what contemporaries believe and it is not what can be seen
from afar or within; history always belongs to the victors and though there may
be parallel histories, the one believed always belongs to those who manage to
survive what holocaust either one managed to conjure up to make life miserable
for the common people upon whose shoulders they balance their ‘Gun of
Liberation’, ‘Tank of Freedom’ or ‘Missile of justice’.
It is just
incredibly sad to think of all those people homeless, wounded and seeking
refuge from foreign governments who would deign to reach out to them, their own
government incapable of providing for its own people.
I believe
that humans want revolution but it is often without evolution which becomes the
greatest hindrance for anything new to take root, but that is something for
another time perhaps…
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