Truthful Humanity today is
reverting. Whatever steps that we take it would again lead us back as how we become human beings.
We live in a world that, although it has boundaries, it is
limitless. People can travel anywhere, see anything, experience every feeling
that ever existed, but we are not satisfied. We try to impose borders on ourselves.
We fight today to be recognized of the “community”, to be
labeled as part of the group. And we fight today to impose limits to a world in
which yesterday people fought.
We live in a world that, finally, recognizes all religions
and beliefs and in which any person can choose his/her religion. People can
worship any God, can praise the energy of nature that inspire them without
feeling threatened or scared. It is the first time in history when people are
not blamed for their beliefs. And we fought for this. But we now try to take
this away from the people. We engage in holy wars or public mockery campaigns
against the religions that we don`t understand. We shut our minds from knowing
more about the people around us, their thoughts and beliefs. And we blame them
for being different.
We live in a world that has invented the telephone,
internet, social media so that people can
communicate easier. But we have never felt so alone and out-of-touch as we do
today. Hidden behind the screens of our computers, tablets, Smartphones, we
feel alienated from what the world has to offer. We have stopped looking at nature
a long time ago and we have started destroying it without thinking about the
consequences.
We live in a world that prides itself through the work of
geniuses. Their work is promoted in order to inspire and enliven us, to guide
and help us realize our full potential. But we ridicule them, treat them as foreigners
in the society. And we let mediocrity rule our lives.
We live in a world that gives birth to great leaders. But we
let ourselves be ruled by a small group of politicians that take the vote of
many and make it insignificant. They have the power to change our lives, but
they don`t. And we continue to support them considering that we have no
alternative.
We live in a world that has created beautiful music,
inspiring literature and breathtaking sceneries. But we continue to spend our
days trapped behind a desk eight hours a day, dreaming of things that we could
do differently in our lives instead of doing those things. We dream of wealth,
we dream of happiness, we dream of conquering the world and changing its
fate. But we never walk out the path that could lead to those dreams becoming
reality.
We live in a world that holds both beauty and ugliness,
both joy and sorrow. We live in a world where not every person thinks alike and
where this freedom of thought makes us happy. We live in a world that shows us
small miracles each day, either through the beauty of nature or through the
beauty of those walking through our lives.
We should stop fighting about democracy in other countries
and start asking if we really have to say in our own country. We should exercise
the right to vote and strengthen the mechanisms of government
as power corrupts even the most strong-minded. We should stop giving the right
to decision to a small group just because they say they know best. We know best
and, even if we don`t, the collective power would decide what is best. Don`t
let them be the new aristocracy.
While technology and democracy has given us the power to
fast forward the world in which we live in, it has also corrupted us. It has
given us the sense of absolute power and knowledge that makes a person feels
like God.
No, we are not gods and we cannot decide on the fate of others. They
only have that right. But we can and we must change ourselves by taking
knowledgeable decisions, making the right choices in life and not letting
others decide for us.
WATCH Charlie Chaplin's inspirational final speech in "The Great Dictator"
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