Saturday, 5 January 2013

Globalization and paradox

Something in the evolution of mankind cannot be altered. The need to communicate and travel has made the world indeed a smaller place. With the advent of communication technologies like the internet, this need just got a further gigantic push forward. If those days, man needed horsemen and the pony express to relay messages, now with a fragment of the time required to wink, information travels further than the mind can imagine.

Man, however, instead of blending with the rest of the people to live as one, choose to subdivide themselves to groups of same intentions, ideology or ethnicity. People use the technology to rekindle old sentimentality to revive ancient languages, old mega plans forgotten by history, instigate animosity and further subdivide people who have been finally united under the same flag after so many years of tribal fighting and bloodshed.
Is it the fate of man to head for self-destruction? Is it in our DNA?

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