Remember the Mad max movies, ‘Water world’, or ‘The day after’ portraying various post apocalyptical scenarios?
All this has now come to pass, although in a different version. We humans, live in a physically mostly intact world, but we have to a substantial extent, lost sanity, common sense, morality, and our natural thought process and communication skills, such as the ability to reason.
An army of Orwellian style ‘Big Brothers’ are trying hard to control every aspect of our lives, spoon-feeding fabricated truths to their unassuming subjects. Self-thought and knowledge are the enemy. Face to face conversations are increasingly discouraged and substituted by apparatus, for this is the only method of communication the electronic surveillance agencies cannot remotely monitor.
As the last few generations of self-thinkers, approach extinction, we watch helplessly as endangered species like ‘sober thought’, ‘paid’ authors and artists of any kind vanish from the social spectrum. Not to forget responsibility, the most outsourced and endangered virtue. Let me add ‘Mental toughness’ which is not valued or cultivated any more. People are easily upset or offended. Literature is edited by ‘Sensitivity Readers’. Self-victimisation is rife and encouraged.
Conscience, the moral sense of right and wrong, bears the power to work miracles when cultivated with integrity. It deserves to be removed from the endangered species list and nurtured with priority, by our guardians and educational authorities, thus enhancing the worth of the ‘New Normal’.