Since a while, I have a hard think about this should-be-beautiful world and the should-be-great people in it. With all the hustle and bustle about terrorism and the disastrous effects of poverty, genocide and war of any kind I wonder if human beings and its ancestors who have survived for 10.000 years are really able to learn from their mistakes? Because most of us immodest humans consider themselves as “wise” but isn’t it so that wise men learn from other’s mistake? And should at least learn from their owns…

So why is there still poverty, genocide, war, terrorism and bigotry in general between all those so-called-themselves “wise” people? I seem to remember that after all we already have a very long history with issues like that between countries, between religions, between clans, between tribes, between races, between opinions, between politics, between partners and so much more of between any of a kind. Shouldn’t we already have been that “wise” that all of the afore-mentioned matters don’t exist anymore in our so-called-themselves-amazingly-wise society? So for God’s or non-god’s sake and to put it in the American way: when will we the F-word refuse to learn that history repeats itself?

And I can only observe heart-rending that it is getting worse. This should-be-one world led by so-called-intelligent people is turning into a mess by not-at-all-intelligent and selfish humans. I do hope we are the only aliens in the universe and if not I already excuse ourselves, the so-called-genius-human race, for turning a blind eye and maintain not to say entertain the above-mentioned 10.000 years of disgusting retarded matters.

After all up to now in 2016 politicians and the “not-so-convincing-anymore“ leaders of this supposed-to-be-tolerant world whom are supposed to give the example do not act fully exemplary as if it is a privilege of the themselves baptized elite to debate on an almost insane reproached manner, to devise an unasked war, to retain an old stale “cold war”, to produce an atom bomb, to exploit unasked shale gas and the neighboring people, to close borders when people are in affliction, to exploit the most crucial areas that are the lungs of the world, to still act as dictators –men…we are in living in the 21^st century…hello-o…-, to abuse and exploit their own inhabitants and so much more of similar “model” crab.

Shouldn’t leaders like Obama and even more Poetin give the trustworthy pattern to the rest of the world?

Of course turning this mess into something good, sustainable and effective we must –as we say in Dutch- put our hands into our own “superior” bosom. Because when I observe people within and just outside my circle of life I notice a lot of selfishness, intolerance and anger. To be better than and feeling oneself above the other seems to be warp and weft everywhere, in any occasion and by many people.

Children need to try as hard as they can to be the best -read: superior- in every matter, not only in figures but also in the social sphere. And this to achieve the dreams and aspirations the parents ones had for themselves. The adults have many “projects” –as they call it- and a “busy” as a little bee important existence as if it is the only way to construct a valuable life in order to impress their fellow men and probably themselves. Anything under the guise of the bumptious competition with or without the inner urge and the all-embracing-intellectual life capital and achievement-oriented motive.

Together at work with colleagues is starting to look like “butchering” rather than the assumed and oh-so important competence “cooperation”. Working together it is, but one with the lurking intention to eliminate the “significant” rival in order to leave behind the “average” employee. And when you confront the hard working average Belgian human being with the upper facts: Naturally, I plead not guilty. And luckily, the exception proves the rule!

Bye the way, wasn’t it the intention in Belgium to evolve to a good average balance between the job and the family? Because if the Belgian blighter just stands there and watches how the government decides everything under the pretext of “the crisis”, we may evolve in the opposite direction back into the 19^th century. May be we –but especially our children- will land in a Japanese epoch of “Karoshi” resulting in the abolition of the legal limits concerning the number of working hours and the unmanageability to offer solid contracts. Shouldn’t it be so that our mainsprings and aspirations have to be lived well-balanced between our public and private life and that the anything-should-be-possible government has to put every possible means to cover that balance at the disposal of the working civilians? Because most employers will not bother. If it is up to them we will work with more hours, more days and less money…

Not that I want to be pessimistic, I just wonder if one of the variables that are contributing to the fact that people (or at least some) don’t get along so well nowadays could be the dashing up overpopulation of the world. It reminds me indeed to a previous study with a few mice that were placed in a beforehand planned out glazed cubic meters box. They were happy, they ate well and there were no conflicts until more mice were added to the box that became too crowded. So the mice started to fight; peace was gone as the lack of individual space enhanced.

May be we, as “intelligent” human beings, should be more receptive to the fact that we áre growing fast as a population and that we will in a nearby future experience more and more nuisance. May be we must radically change our parenting model and raise our kids with the notion of “tolerance and solidarity” rather than “overperform and endeavors” so that the future inhabitants of this planet might live without “Karoshi” and “intolerance, racism, hate, selfishness, rags” and war in general.

 

Do we not all have the right, even the duty to strive for an ideal world and to make it come true before we exploit the rest of the universe?