Thursday, April 30, 2009
The end is nigh.
I've never been a big fan of keeping up to date with the news, especially now, more than ever. Whenever you switch on the television or flip through the papers, the first thing that greets you is disasters. It seems like the world is currently being bombarded with problems from all sides, be it political, environmental, health and even finance. I'm particularly concerned with problems regarding the environment and health (global warming and swine flu, people) I was just researching the swine flu (I'm seriously concerned) and like the other strains of flu, it is airborne.
That's the horrifying part, knowing that no matter what precautions you take, you have the potential to catch it, and die as a result. The World Health Organization have declared a Phase 5, sort of like that Code Black you see in movies when they have a serious bomb threat. Phase 5 is the second highest level of emergencies under the WHO regulation, which is a non-ambiguous indication that the swine flu is gravely serious.
There's also that huge concern of global warming and the fact that it could very well be the human race's undoing. The Doomsday Clock, while theoretical, shows that the time left till it is midnight (or ultimate destruction) is only five minutes. It's like a horrible movie, like 28 Days Later. You watch all these gruesome things and you think, 'this can never happen in the real world. The human race can't end like that. We can't go out without a bang." But that is what is happening right now and it isn't even registering in our heads just how grievous and precarious the current global condition is, because we still think that the end of the world is preposterous and is only plausible in films, but not in the real world.
Our minds are wrapped in this compact cocoon where we only ponder on inconsequential things; we're ignoring what is really happening, either because we really do not care or because we just can't accept it. I'll go with the latter. The human race by nature, loves to bury their heads in the sand and act like that particularly disagreeable something is not there. In the words of Hugh Jackman from the Prestige, "We want to be fooled."
The end is not near, people. It's already here.
So, how are you?
Guess who.
I've never been a big fan of keeping up to date with the news, especially now, more than ever. Whenever you switch on the television or flip through the papers, the first thing that greets you is disasters. It seems like the world is currently being bombarded with problems from all sides, be it political, environmental, health and even finance. I'm particularly concerned with problems regarding the environment and health (global warming and swine flu, people) I was just researching the swine flu (I'm seriously concerned) and like the other strains of flu, it is airborne.
That's the horrifying part, knowing that no matter what precautions you take, you have the potential to catch it, and die as a result. The World Health Organization have declared a Phase 5, sort of like that Code Black you see in movies when they have a serious bomb threat. Phase 5 is the second highest level of emergencies under the WHO regulation, which is a non-ambiguous indication that the swine flu is gravely serious.
There's also that huge concern of global warming and the fact that it could very well be the human race's undoing. The Doomsday Clock, while theoretical, shows that the time left till it is midnight (or ultimate destruction) is only five minutes. It's like a horrible movie, like 28 Days Later. You watch all these gruesome things and you think, 'this can never happen in the real world. The human race can't end like that. We can't go out without a bang." But that is what is happening right now and it isn't even registering in our heads just how grievous and precarious the current global condition is, because we still think that the end of the world is preposterous and is only plausible in films, but not in the real world.
Our minds are wrapped in this compact cocoon where we only ponder on inconsequential things; we're ignoring what is really happening, either because we really do not care or because we just can't accept it. I'll go with the latter. The human race by nature, loves to bury their heads in the sand and act like that particularly disagreeable something is not there. In the words of Hugh Jackman from the Prestige, "We want to be fooled."
The end is not near, people. It's already here.
So, how are you?
Guess who.
what we could have been, 12:17 AM.