The emptiness engulfing the World

This time last year all of us were holding our heart and hoping for a better future. It was the time of Arab spring.

After being decades under the yoke of domestic tyranny, the people in the Arab World were revolting finally and this time without any backing from any one from outside. This will be the beginning of a better tomorrow as we thought.

The beginning of this year is completely different from the previous year. The hopes of tremendous progress of previous year has already started giving in to the cold and hard reality that it takes decades sometimes centuries to bear fruit when it comes to revolutions and change.

When it comes to the beginning of the current year instead of the hope in progress we will be lucky if we do not end up digressing from even the very low-standards of morality that human being has managed to achieve for itself in its time in this planet.

The region of West Asia which showed all the promises last year is back to its usual sordid and grim reality.

We started the year with murder of a nuclear scientist in Iran. More than the murder what was shocking was the reaction from the global community about this tragedy.

A nuclear scientist who is murdered because of a political issue and the reaction of the global community is strangely muted to say the least.

A World where people look other way when some of its best minds are taken away is not the best to hope for progress.

If collective silence about the murder of an intellectual was bad enough what was more distressing was the silence amongst the global conscience over the consistent drum beats over calls for economic sanctions and surgical military strikes against Iran.

The elections that will determine who will be the “leader of the free World” always brings up colorful and creative staff. This year will not be any exception.

Those who have seen the movie “Apocalypto” will be familiar with the phenomenon of ancient predecessors of today’s native-Americans sacrificing the heart of innocent human beings to please their Gods.

It is really scary to see the contenders, one of whom would be elected “the leader of free World” later this year, so easily calling for crippling sanctions which will probably go on to make Iranian children starve.

The commentators whose job is to look and analyze the World events, assures us that it is just election ploy. The people need to see a tough “leader of the Free World.”

The kind of compassion that one assumes is inevitable from this modernized humanity is seemingly in short supply. This is the time when everyone likes to feel good by predicting how their enemy’s children will starve to death.

A famous American commentator recently said on live radio that “I dislike Rumi, I dislike Hafez, I dislike Saadi and I will not give a damn even if they are lost forever to posterity.” The gentleman was talking about how introducing western style modern education to girls in Iran would lead to Iran having less and less babies and complete depopulation within the next century. He was gleefully predicting how no one would speak Persian within a century.

The World could have ignored if that kind of hatred and bloodlust was only limited to odd commentator in “the strongest ever power on human history”. But alas only if things were that simple.

If some rational being would have come from outside this solar system to our earth and if he would have hard the cries of “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran……” and the tremendous ovations that these cries receive, he would probably believe that our civilization has not moved much beyond what it used to be during the time of Aztecs.

This is a World increasingly without its bearings. When “the leader of the free World” takes pride in his annual address to nation by giving approximated counts of how many men his unmanned drones have turned into ash and vapor , then the World should be afraid and concerned.

There is an old saying that amidst pessimism lay the flickers of hope. But where is the hope in today’s World which seem to be celebrating the macabre joys of death and destruction more than it values the