Black Day Duology

Sometimes it seems the world is rotating backwards. These terrible series of events in France, in Texas, in Mexico, in Syria, hints about global things becoming massive, more radical and of course, less empathetic. One death is no longer important, it has become a synonym for furiously obsolescent. Now, a few dozens deaths every now and then, with shorter spaces in between, seem like acceptable numbers for a small tragedy, futile still, quickly erased by the next, but tragedy.

Everything will eventually be justified by causes and effects, those with hatred can exponentiate the death of their loved, now lost ones and will most likely gravitate towards an irreversible sense of prejudice, maybe even sometimes consciously or not, even hurting others by words or actions.

What's next? More silent attacks trying to erase an invisible, never surrendering enemy? Haven't we learned enough about fighting abstracts? Terror, Drugs, Corruption, Capitalism? It's really late in the game to repeat worn out habits and not evolve further as a civilisation. 

In this new age of personal media, the opinion and support towards unjust actions pends on the overall narrative of recorded facts. These multiple snippets will always be able to reconstruct context but never subtext.

Hence, one more #Je suis ________, or how to "add the ______ flag on Facebook". But no change will ever come from words of sorrow written on a social platform. Unless we stop behaving like machines, distancing ourselves from reality, gaming our lives away, following invisible awards towards the end of a cliff, technology will be claiming more of us.

This could only mean Technology, the new God, has become what was predicted and mostly feared of it: our careless doom, the result of fleeing from issues (like racism) rather than facing them. Forget about biotechnology, forget about bombs, forget about airport revisions. While major events are happening, we are having accidents, running through our lives to seek some kind of digital rewards to fill our "regular lives", our routines, our disenchantment of reality or the lack of connection in our relationships. 

Nothing will fix this but our inner selves. The rational beings we are must change and forget about living in a world of appearances where our economical or political systems are no longer what we want or disgracefully withstand that our leaders are really far from representing us.

But what about the work involved in change? Happiness requires hard work and it's fruits are not visible sometimes. Even further, if we really achieve some kind of slow transformation, the fruits would be for us to share.

We can either start acting like this or I'm positive, more dark days for everyone worldwide lie ahead.