Saorrento

The end is nigh. No I am not about to start preaching of revelations and the second coming, for the truth of the matter is we probably won’t last that long. We are quickly accelerating into a world where we attempt to destroy atoms by colliding them against one another just to see what lays beneath, where addressing the issue of road safety, rather than making the highways safer they simply lower the speed limit. A world where unless you grow it yourself, chances are your corn cob has spliced jellyfish DNA in it, making it more frost resilient. A world where each and every year children develop an allergy to something new, last year was peanuts; 2010 is bananas.

As we approach the height of the technological frontier forged by the creative geniuses of our generation’s time such as Bill Gates etc, we’re slowly rattling apart. The world, bent on religious warfare, with extremists turning to terror to alter the status quo. Where religious hot topics such as abortion and euthanasia are looked at negatively; by religious law, humans do not have the right to destroy a life. What about creation? What’s going to happen when teleportation and cloning become the new thing; does a clone have a soul? When the teleporter breaks down the subjects body at the molecular level and reassembles them on the other side do the newly assembled bodies have a soul? Will the church redefine their doctrine on souls so we can all get back to happy hour in these SciFi times?

Having just recovered from the second worst financial crisis in modern history the governments are still spilling billions of dollars into preventing global warming. But is the world warming up? If so, are we directly responsible or is it part of a natural cycle. Earth has been through an ice age before, is mankind going to fight Mother Nature and try to prevent the next blaming it on ‘Global Warming?’. Are we polluting the earth? Yes! Lets start with that, lets reduce the carbon emissions, but to it to clean the environment, don’t be too surprised if the climate around the world continues to change.

If aliens landed tomorrow, what would your first reaction be? To scream? To pick up a weapon? If this is true, pity the fool, you have seen too many alien invasion films. Chances are that a life form intelligent enough to venture into space has the cultural understanding of ethics and morals and not be interested in Armageddon.

Too many approaches to ideas and not enough order has lead the world into the chaos that it is today. Will we straighten ourselves up in time, or will we be the fate of some of our own Hollywood creations to the likes of ‘Resident Evil’?