War

John Steinbeck famously said ‘All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal’. It cannot be a more truer time to prove that line than this. We are a failed species. The biggest of human attributes has been left exposed and tittering on the brink of an imminent collapse. At a time when world has advanced leaps and bounds in technologies, from how we work to how we move to how we think (a larger audience), there are parts of the world which is more interested in avenging revenge. The purpose of the war is to stamp authority on the minority of population who did not agree to a certain ideology or a way of governance.

I may not have the detailed account of reasons and on ground reality what I see on TV of what is going in Parts of Syria and Yemen makes my heart cry. I saw a video of a 5 year old boy, in a hospital mask, crying for his mother inside the hospital and Nurse trying to console the inconsolable. I saw a father, who is still waiting for his 2 year old daughter to breathe for life after doctor has pronounced death and his son sitting beside his disbelieving father trying to understand what is happening. Those people are too young to understand the difference between right and wrong. Those people are too young to die. Even those who survive, all they remember would be a childhood of bombs and scare without an iota of their fault. Think about a pregnant mother and a child in her womb, what is the pain of that child who has not yet breathed that he should not be allowed to come to this planet? I am not angry with the happenings around, I am saddened by the utter disdain of the political class to forget the basics of any rule book they follow, the facet of any religion they are subscribed to, the very basic reason we exist-Humanity. It is a cult virtue. And we as a society has lost it and will keep on loosing until we realise that this was not the purpose of existence. This is an end in itself.

Syria and Yemen are in a midst of the biggest humanitarian crisis since the WW II. And I am, with all the responsibility at my command, wish to say that we are tracking back on years of progress with this inclination to finish something what is not responsible for. This is second compared or comparable only to the ‘the final solution’. I am not miffed by it, because I think we, as humans, have only to blame for this. This divide and rule strategy is not new, and we have had this for centuries if not before. This hole is human discourse and disagreements are something which we ourselves have created and we nurture it. It is our way to demonstrate power and authority. Because if you-some feel-do not demonstrate power you are worth not a talk. That’s a way to shout and tell the world to ‘listen I’m the boss’. That is autocracy and dictatorship. I am a firm believer in democratic form of human discourse, because everyone individual has a choice to make of its own preferences. No single human being can be lectured on it because it is not one’s mistake to be born in a certain family with certain values following certain religion hence it is individual’s choice. The idea that ‘i or we are the best clan in the world’ is a sure way to rip the generations apart and so the entire presence. It is the most important time in the human history that values of decency and acceptance of difference is at-least understood and actions taken based on what works for all and not for what works for only a small part.

We are in a very feeble time in human discourse, the anger is at an all-time high, the path towards living in a protected environment rather than an open is on the rise. The use of human force to establish a sense of order over a region one governs are back dated and can push entire human race back. I have been saying we are on the brink of WW III, because all the necessary conditions satisfy it. I think this particular crisis, if averted, would be a post pone an impending war. Human ego is a tricky thing, it can start a war, result in a calamity of epic proportions and may end with generations and societies wiped out for. Plato famously said “Only the dead has seen the end of war’ and that is what it will be reduced down too.