" No Passion's Slave"

In recent years, I hardly read about achieving equality and equity as an aspiration. It appears that practical concerns have triumphed over that of goals and visions much further away. Most are concerned with cutting budget deficit or reducing reliance on credit- which is really a worthy cause. But have we forgot that there is also a human character in the numbers?

The market has won, no one is talking about shared community but rather lifting the middle class and reducing income inequality. Politics is almost swallowed up by the economics of our times. The opposition and alternatives have found a space and a niche in every corner of society- which is sad really- which means that they have given up changing things but rather accept their limited lot in their fate. They have been circumscribed.

Ideals have been lost, visions have been compromised and dreams has been traded. I almost missed terrorism because at least they have something to fight for- but now, it appears that every body's reaction is really tepid in most times and dramatic for a fleeting moment only at best. The most exciting thing that happened last year was really a blind man and an almost non-existent skirmish somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

I read somewhere that we are only peaceful when we are the same which means that the preconditions to non-violence is well being homogeneous. This is the opposite of essential behaviour- which means that everything is meaningless and flat- this is skepticism gone ideological. It's like we do not care therefore we do not fight you.

The walking dead attempts to eat all healthy human beings and turned them to zombies- where they do not eat other. The zombies walk among the zombies not recognizing one from the other,isn't that the end of the world coming.

Today is a trend of cool skepticism where it is no longer trendy to hold a banner and fight for your "rights"- whatever that maybe. It no longer is political correct to fight for "freedom" or "oppression", and it is also not politically correct to criticize authoritarian regimes because simply because of "cultural" context. It is as if, one single word can explain away all the "wrongs" in the world.

When Myanmar release it's political prisoners, it was almost an non-event, where a few years ago, it would be lauded as a triumph for "democracy". Now it is like, "oh well, the world has moved on, so should Myanmar. And when North Korea had a failed rocket launch, no one chided them or try rubbed salt into the wounds- everyone kept quiet, almost of an disquieting civility.

Cold War has ended, Russia no longer even tries to be communist and no one even attempts to be anything now. Are we going to save the dolphins now and see no light, no end and no passions to improve the human condition?

How do you want the world to be- think hard, work smart and play even harder.