Whenever I see the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in old movies before September 11th 2001, I am filled with such a profound sadness. Not necessarily reflective of that particular terrorist attack, but moreso with the fact that we, as human beings, can hate each other so vehemently that mass killing seems acceptable, and a good idea.
I don't understand the world that we live in, very well. I am on the eve of my embarkment into it, and, as it stands, I do not want to leave the comforts and safety of childhood, bliss and ignorance. I feel much more uneasy knowing all that I know, which sadly is not very much. It seems like the more I learn, the more I am disgusted. I would say that human decency has eroded through the ages. However, from the days of the Bible and beyond, we haven't had any. We're always trying to kill eachother for our cosmetic or internal differences.
With the thesis that human beings weren't born with decency beyond their own needs and wants, it's safe for me to think and believe that we, as a civilization of homosapiens, are doomed to our own fatal humanoid flaw. As the technology of battle grows at an alarmingly fast rate, as angry countries with grudges become armed with nuclear weapons, and as the religious and economic divide of the world becomes marked with red pen, I can only foresee malevolence in our future.
It's nice for me to sit here and listen to my Bob Dylan and believe that maybe my generation will be the one to smarten up, and see past the differences to the similarities, but we will not. I am as bad as my percieved enemy, although maybe I do not think so, maybe you don't either. So long as all the cultures instill hatred, pretention and superiority, whether the message is subtle or obvious, we as the world, do not stand a chance.
And I do not see how it will ever remedy itself. We would have to remedy human nature.
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