Signs of the Times

                            

 Signs of the Times 

I do feel strongly that humankind is fast heading towards its own doom. Have a look at inter personal relationships. Societies, communities & civilizations at large are fast getting vanished due to various identity crises. Universal citizenship and similar ideas sound well when heard superficially. The energy exchange taking place within the human brain overflows in the form of positive transactions of greater intensity than ever before and often times in the negative as well. Hyperactive kids and other forms of prodigies are more than common in recent years. Aren't the kids of the times super-emotional in its extremes?

Prominent scientist Stephen Hawking says, developing artificial intelligence will erase human race in the course of time, as the speed of human evolution is slower when compared to the speed of destabilization of artificial intelligence. Once unleashed, the man made intelligence goes out of human control and the degeneration and destabilization of this intelligence becomes more than impossible. Terminator series of movies will no more remain science fiction but a reality.

The signs of the times are witness to this. Human relations have degenerated to use and throw levels. Selfish motives rule the world. Living within the four walls of a cut-off flat and accessing the outer world just through the finger tips, makes Tom not only a vegetable mass but demoniac in his thought processes too. He assumes proportions that were never known before. 

No matter how highly placed; there exists a kind of vacuum in the lives of men and women. What touches and moves the heart are those sad strains which have the themes melancholy, deserted love, emptiness of the world and its affairs, hollow human relations, and selfish motives that govern the moves of individuals. Sorrow seems to be increasingly at the base of all existence. People yearn to go back to the days of the past. Hatred spews the venom all over. No end to greed. Love and related sacred sentiments are fast vanishing. The 'bright' and the 'intelligent' of the day do not understand the simple facts about human existence. The miffed and intolerant individual is trying to vilify and defame the other out there, playing the game of shifting the blame and ready to grease the palms of the highly placed for petty recognition and shallow gains. Euphemistic ravings surround his empty soul! Serendipity favors the theatrics of the whimsical educational masqueraders.

Often the one who sits so close to you proves the traitor. Individuals share common platforms and cozily purr to you showing allegiance. Brutus is not too far away but very close to you. Most likely the closest one stabs you, back-stabs you and your fall is inevitable. You too....!!! 

The poorest is the elitist of all creation. He feels for the other as he upholds that money is man-made.

There isn't a single individual who mustn't have wept and shed some secret tears. Everyone has a secret, private cause of grief. Life sometimes seems so beautiful and we wish to live hundreds of it. There comes tough times when you fall prey to others' villainy, greed and jealousy. When people whom you trust for no reasons, but just because they are human (in appearance), probably you are mistaken. They take you to task and strike unexpectedly, at an hour when you least expect it. You will find yourself, to your own great surprise, standing at the wrong side of the table, confused, perturbed, weeping and begging for pardon from the evil one. You are questioned for the wrongs committed by the wicked. "Forgive them Oh Father, for they don't know what they do", the Man on the Cross could pray this. I wish I too could pray the same. Be on your guard as long as you are just normal human wielding common powers. The wretched are awake!!  

Whither is gone the sheen of human beings? Behold the man! Where is the man? Evolution of human race is fast approaching a full circle. We have hundreds of people around us, just to say an unfeeling "hi", but nothing beyond. Are we growing or ceasing to be humans?