One October morning when I went to the local ATM to withdraw some cash I realized that the so called 'Global Recession' has effected me too! Just a common man earning his living month by month and spending it month by month with no savings. I had to fetch out 10k to 'bail-out' a close relative out of his share of the "global financial mess" of today. I earn around 20+k. Now half of it is gone and I'm in the process of moving to a better(read cheaper) location. So, my very intention of moving to a new location is associated with my financial standings. Who knows that it is also not associated with this recession? Is the world really becoming smaller day by day that a financial wave in America could blow me off sitting here in Bangalore? Will we every see the real picture? Are we capable of looking at the big picture? Are ants capable of pondering about how we humans build ships and planes? Maybe they are? Maybe they are not? But who will decide? The ants off-course! But what if the ant does not want to decide or even bother about the whole crap that we men do? Then they just got Chance to act upon itself and topple Man's regime to save the ants from human tyranny. Lol!
Some of us think that we are the 'higher' beings. But what if we are not? We think that animals may never have the knowledge that we possess. But what if they possess a better knowledge then us? I am sure that they would never have become the cause of 'global warming' or environmental pollution or any other kind of man-created havocs existing today. Or am I? Just as we think that we are the masters of this world, we would also like to think that there is a superior-supernatural master over us overlooking us! Just like the first one the second one may as well be fake perception generated over thousands of years or may be even passed on to generation thru 'gene-mutation' or something. First of all the very idea of 'heaven' & 'hell' seem so 'ungodly' but would seem like an alien oppression if not something more 'natural'. And also the idea that we have an identity that is much higher in nature against other animals like assuming a 1st class priority in Nature. Everything we do has a benefit 'for Man' attached to it. I don't think we have the capability to see the big picture.
Maybe. May be we are just a fluke of Nature; a wrong adventure that Nature is trying to make right. Hence whats happening around the world today. The lives of all of us are becoming more interconnected and hence inter-dependent with each other;More comfort means more laziness; more advancement and sophisticated machine means more free time and that means more people have time to 'ponder on how to make life more comfortable and have more diversity in what we do and have' and that in turn means faster pace of development which leads to more plundering; plundering leads to more scarcity of resources which will give rise to a chain of events and consequences. All these are going to hit equally to everybody. Unless we have something like a 'Global Enlightenment' or something like a collective realization.
