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Future as we make it or is predestined?

Macbeth (2015) It is amazing that a writer in the 16th century can pen out such a play so intricate in its emotional interplay. This is, of course, the work of a particular man of commoner stock from Stratford-upon-Avon. Playing the main character of this play seem to the lifetime ambitions of many an actor including Orson Welles, Patrick Stewart, Sean Connery, Richard Burton and Lawrence Olivier. Michael Fassbender reprises the role of Macbeth in this 2015 production. Perhaps the only people in the world who do not have a sense of guilt are the psychopath. Otherwise, most of us are drilled upon us to build a wall of guilt within us that sometimes makes us lose our balance. The guilt that we are made to feel eventually eats us up. Despite the urge to survive and need to outdo and overrun others to succeed is there, most of our upbringing makes it mandatory for us to fell guilty. Sometimes, we dig our own graves, and our actions themselves push us in.  The evil that lurks...

Figment of fiction

Anonymous (2011) One thing laudable about a mature society is the acceptance of alternative versions to the widely accepted version. This is the stark contrast to what is seen in an infantile society where people go up in arms if a little creativity or critical thinking is given to the official version. With things neither black or white in the modern world, they forget that the truth is almost always hidden somewhere between 'the truth' and 'the rumour'. For the longest time, we have been shoved down our throats half truths and lies. Now, those days are long gone. Information is king. As the French philosopher, Jean-François Lyotard predicted, we are now at a crossroad where we have way too much information and the time has come where nations would go to war to gain control over this commodity and cow their fellow beings into submission! There has been a famous conspiracy theory going around which suggests that it is most likely that William Shakespeare could not ha...