Scents of flowers are the same as before. Color of dusk and dawn, the noise of a nutcracker on duty, the moon's slow, rhythmic dance...the same as before. The way lovers look at each other, taste of tears and sweat, a cat's stretching, peach blossoms, leaves falling, water splashing, a snake undressing...all the same.
Do we, humans change? Yes and no. People commit murder and save lives, they make love and make wars, they steal, oppress and they give presents, help others...the same as before. Yet excuses, motivations, justifications change...
We see modern ideologies evaporating day by day from the world stage. Ideas, human conditions, world views, theories and beliefs are so much circulated, exchanged through the wires, cables, signals that it becomes visible that they are not too different from each other, that whatever the envelops would be, "good" and "bad" are, have always been, the same. Just and unjust, cruelty and grace...simple as that. A Kazakh boy can play chess on the net with a Lithuanian girl, not even seeing each other. A Costarican and an Afghan can vote for a cause against an unjust detention in some country at the very same time without noticing one another.
Of course the residue of once-worshipped ideologies is still there and blurs the reality but at least no mass destruction can try to hide behind the skirts of any single ideology. Does that prevent atrocities, like killing of 80000 people in 2 years? Unfortunately, no.
Do we, humans change? Yes and no. People commit murder and save lives, they make love and make wars, they steal, oppress and they give presents, help others...the same as before. Yet excuses, motivations, justifications change...We see modern ideologies evaporating day by day from the world stage. Ideas, human conditions, world views, theories and beliefs are so much circulated, exchanged through the wires, cables, signals that it becomes visible that they are not too different from each other, that whatever the envelops would be, "good" and "bad" are, have always been, the same. Just and unjust, cruelty and grace...simple as that. A Kazakh boy can play chess on the net with a Lithuanian girl, not even seeing each other. A Costarican and an Afghan can vote for a cause against an unjust detention in some country at the very same time without noticing one another.
Of course the residue of once-worshipped ideologies is still there and blurs the reality but at least no mass destruction can try to hide behind the skirts of any single ideology. Does that prevent atrocities, like killing of 80000 people in 2 years? Unfortunately, no.
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