It's the wee hours of the morning. I cannot sleep and here I am blogging to try and beat insomnia. The more I think and write, the more alert I become. This pretty much sums up my take on recent events that has been making the news lately.
I've been rather perplexed of late by all the media hype and razzmatazz of what can otherwise most aptly be described as self-defeating movements, campaigns and/or exercises.
Take an age-old cliché, dress it up in some loud costume, splash some paint on the garb and suddenly you have a brand new fashionable cause worthy of another crusade.
Search "Earth Hour Images" on the internet and you see cheerful people lighting numerous candles and holding copious quantities of chemical light sticks. I wonder how different is that from killing all the whales to stop whaling.
"Pro-democracy" activists and sports-persons are disrupting the passage of the Olympic torch worldwide and boycotting it in protests.
Firstly, the Olympics was conceived as a platform on which everyone from all corners of our Earth can compete regardless of race, political leanings and even sexual orientation. It should be about who can run faster, jump higher, throw farther and et cetera in celebration of humanity and our differences.
Then, assuming that we disregard history and simply "give" Tibet "back" to Tibetans who reinstate their religious leader in a heartbeat. Now, wouldn't that be Theocracy? How different is that from, say, certain country or organisations that the West label as rogue, sponsor of terrorism and axis of evil?
And here I am compounding my own self-defeating exercise. Heh.
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