Recognition – at any cost – is what appears to drive most of us. If you get a 5 year old child to cut out a piece of cardboard and sew buttons onto it, and call it ‘parent of the street’ medal/award, and hand it out to a parent on his street each year, but the end of the first year, you will find people who will soon find folk who will seek to lie, cheat and do anything possible to win it!
People make heaps of money, become billionaires, then they want recognition; they go after designations. They want to be Sir Joe Bloggs or want medal of honour etc. When they have those, they want plaques erected for them, airports named after them etc. When they have all that, they still want more…….
One can understand it when some folk argue that there must be aliens walking amongst us! Well, crazy as that may sound, it is most likely true. Or perhaps, the human heart is just not what we think it is. When we say “have a heart!” or “show compassion” or “have pity on…”, it is indeed very difficult to reconcile some of the barbarism that we see today, in what is supposed to be the year 2026!
There is no collective disgust, when we witness disgusting behaviour. Some of us look away, while some excuse it and say it is necessary.
Today’s world is like waking up in George Orwell’s Animal Farm….
You’ll see a story about hundreds of people dying of starvation, on the same page as a some tik tok celebrity or influencer buying a diamond ring for her 6th marriage to a guy who just came out of jail after years of imprisonment for strangling his last wife!
That is where we have evolved to!
Humanity? what on earth is that?
In today’s world, we are actively trying to find ways to denigrate people, to get clicks!
It is hopeless!
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