Well look where we are now

In yesterday's newspaper:

The question that stumped Prof Hawking

The 64-year-old scientist posed an open question: In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

Some said we should just learn to get along, others predicted technology would see us through and more still invoked the powers of God, love and peace.

But what the world wanted most of all was to hear the great scientist's answer, an intervention that would amount to nothing less than a definitive treatise for human survival.

On Wednesday, he responded in a video-clip saying: "I don't know the answer. That is why I asked the question."

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But isn't it kind of true? The war is raging in Lebanon. Day after day images, reports, pictures and latest news occupy most of the news time in various channels. People are moving out, for their lives, for the hope they'd live to see tomorrow. And mostly, it's all for the political gain America wants. The people are innocent. After years of poverty and misery, they finally get a chance to develop, and at a good speed too. And then comes the war, to ravage the towns and cities, to destroy lives and the hope of a better life.

And why the war? To enable America to sustain their stronghold on being the world's leading powerhouse country, so that they remain superior. Doesn't it bug their conscience to watch TV and see the state Lebanon is in, and that they are sitting comfy in their couches while expats, and citizens alike are escaping their devastated town with luggages and babies in tow?

Why blame all Americans, why stereotype you say. They aren't the ones who made the decision. Hey, then why are all Lebanese and those living in it bearing the brunt huh? Right to live, civil rights.. They are all denied the basic right, the right to live.

The world is in utter chaos, with the ideas that pollute people's mind, with all the injustice and violence around the world. Prof Hawkings says "humans will only survive if they can leave the rock they call home and spread out into space, to transform and occupy planets around our own sun and then around other suns."

Are we, the most intelligent of all living things, not able to even co-exist in this big big world and even having to resort to occupying other planets as well? Are we, always talking about love and peace, unable to practise what we advocate?

It makes me think so differently now this door is unlocked. Why do dreams even matter when there is no way to fufill it because who knows? In 10 years' time we'd be thinking of how to survive, how to find food, every single day, because of the war, because of selfishness, because of humans, our very own species. We kill each other. And by saying we, I'm talking about the human race.

We're mostly appalled at cannibals-- Eating their own species with relish.

But in actual fact, we are no better.