My humor bone is lacking calcium.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
how we might save ourselves!
Perhaps, only by some form of threat from an extra terrestrial source on all of humanity can finally provoke us to dissolve our differences, religious and otherwise, and come together to fight a common cause with the realization and recognition of the only identity that really matters: being human.
Well, the thing is, during an emergency situation people tend to help each other more readily than otherwise. Like I am told, during 9/11 or during the huge power cut in NY (and at this point I know my Calcutta folks are jaw-dropping surprised to imagine power cut as a "national emergency") random people would give you rides, buy you shoes, food et al because the government made it mandatory to help fellow citizens. And no one really complained about that. People felt they were part of a common (suffering) group: Americans.
In the kind of world we live in today, checkered by religious tensions and wars, when humanity and peace are hanging by the thread, we perhaps need an extra terrestrial distraction (more suitably, an attack) which will force human beings to finally fight for one singular cause, and thus recognize, humanity. We need an apocalyptic episode in our lives that will knock some sense in our heads and force us to gain some perspective.
I wish we were frolicking about naked in Pangea, and that "plate tectonics" was just an ice cream flavor!
Well, the thing is, during an emergency situation people tend to help each other more readily than otherwise. Like I am told, during 9/11 or during the huge power cut in NY (and at this point I know my Calcutta folks are jaw-dropping surprised to imagine power cut as a "national emergency") random people would give you rides, buy you shoes, food et al because the government made it mandatory to help fellow citizens. And no one really complained about that. People felt they were part of a common (suffering) group: Americans.
In the kind of world we live in today, checkered by religious tensions and wars, when humanity and peace are hanging by the thread, we perhaps need an extra terrestrial distraction (more suitably, an attack) which will force human beings to finally fight for one singular cause, and thus recognize, humanity. We need an apocalyptic episode in our lives that will knock some sense in our heads and force us to gain some perspective.
I wish we were frolicking about naked in Pangea, and that "plate tectonics" was just an ice cream flavor!
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