The human condition
I often find myself thinking about the human predicament.
People suffering in loveless relationships on one side of the planet while others pine for a loved one, even waste away in isolation. The financially well-off revelling in the high life, partying, wasting food, abusing women and polluting nature, as opposed to the so-called poor or illiterate, or the aboriginals, who are wealthy in the things that matter, such as their worship of all things natural.
The children who don't get a shot at life because of being diagnosed with cancer at birth, because of malnutrition, because of nuclear war, or rape by a family member. The people who literally live on the streets in contrast to those who charade as being deprived and add to their hoardings back home. The new 'mall culture' which fosters a brand consciousness, radically changing the lifestyle of a simpler people, effectively handing over the reins to faraway corporations, while low-key shopkeepers lose their until-then faithful clientele and are forced to down the shutters to give way for business tycoons who could do without branching out. People buying things they don't need to fill their empty houses while in slums and remote villages, others still live without basic resources, yearning for better facilities and a warmer hearth. A white-skinned boy befriending a boy of a darker skin tone and becoming famous for it because ours is a generation still infected with intolerance.
There are so many dichotomies and hierarchies of human existence which show how far we have distanced ourselves from the possibility of living in equality.
People suffering in loveless relationships on one side of the planet while others pine for a loved one, even waste away in isolation. The financially well-off revelling in the high life, partying, wasting food, abusing women and polluting nature, as opposed to the so-called poor or illiterate, or the aboriginals, who are wealthy in the things that matter, such as their worship of all things natural.
The children who don't get a shot at life because of being diagnosed with cancer at birth, because of malnutrition, because of nuclear war, or rape by a family member. The people who literally live on the streets in contrast to those who charade as being deprived and add to their hoardings back home. The new 'mall culture' which fosters a brand consciousness, radically changing the lifestyle of a simpler people, effectively handing over the reins to faraway corporations, while low-key shopkeepers lose their until-then faithful clientele and are forced to down the shutters to give way for business tycoons who could do without branching out. People buying things they don't need to fill their empty houses while in slums and remote villages, others still live without basic resources, yearning for better facilities and a warmer hearth. A white-skinned boy befriending a boy of a darker skin tone and becoming famous for it because ours is a generation still infected with intolerance.
There are so many dichotomies and hierarchies of human existence which show how far we have distanced ourselves from the possibility of living in equality.
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