And again there is bloodshed in the name of religion. How
wrong, how sad, how insane? I have seen this, read about this and felt sorry
for this, almost all my life. Which Country am I from and what religion I
follow that is irrelevant. What matters is that I was created as the highest of
all the creation; I was created a human being.
I was reading news about the recent incidents and also
the comments, individual responses to the incidents as cited in the news. Sadly
a huge majority of the people posting those comments are angry. Irrespective of
the faith they follow or nationality they belong to. Anger seems to be the most
predominant emotion these days along with intolerance. What happened to the love
and the peace and harmony? What happened to the principles that were taught as
a basic learning by any religion of the world?
Honest opinion, the only religion prevalent these days
seems to be hatred. Any country one is from, any popular religion one follows,
any holy book one may read any place of worship one may visit, but most seem to
be following one religion, the religion of HATE. It is like a virus, it spreads
itself. Born out of ignorance and intolerance. It is truly mediaborne, very
infectious and very dangerous.
I have seen movies about dooms day and also seen shows on
discovery and National geographic talking about the end of the world. They talk
about the ultimate storms and tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions,
super bug epidemics and so many other possibilities of this world coming to an
end. And seeing the news these days I feel the dooms day prophecies are not
wrong and thinking that we are close to that day is not incorrect. But the
source of that destruction is not going to be any of the natural calamities or
storms. We, the people will destroy the whole World very soon with always spreading;
media and social media fed super ignorant hate.
“With great power comes great responsibility” so I heard
being said in the Spiderman movie. Social media and easy, open, unstoppable, recent
(to the last second) access to information from all over the globe is a great
power. We can use it to help and heal and build and grow and develop and
strengthen the globe. Not only for us humans but for all what Mother Nature has
given us. Thankfully a few of us, who understand the great responsibility that
this great power has put on our shoulders, are doing exactly that. But a vast
majority just got this power and got it for so cheap, almost free that they
would not learn the responsibility that it brings. Sadly most news channels, newspapers
other media providers are no exception to ignoring the responsibility that the
power of global reach has put on their shoulders.
Hope it is not too late before people realize that
responsibility.
Hope none of us has to see the times that Pulitzer Prize winner writer Cormac McCarthy has
mentioned in his book “The Road.”
Epilogue: Looking for a savior for all and
sincerely I will not even ask which popular religion figure he or she would
resemble. But until that savior comes (or may never come), the
responsibility is on us. With Great Power comes great responsibility and
history can tell that the power current generation has is way too great than
any generation in the past had held.
