Syriana and Faith

Another hour of my short life has gone by. I went out walking at 1 am in the freezing rain. I needed to clear my mind.

Yesterday I saw a movie called Syriana.
If you have even 1% faith in humanity or human institutions then you should go and watch this movie. Once your done watching you will loose that last 1% of faith too.

Who do we trust in this big world? The common people are like ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. We are too shit scared to look beyond our immediate life. Hell no one wants the global view of things. That is for the people in power or the Government. That is the common theme of the common people.

But maybe power comes from having a global view. Maybe the power comes from seeing the world map not as a map but as a chess board. Or maybe the power comes from recognizing the fact that unlike a normal chess board this World-board has more gray squares than black or white.

Everywhere you see people are fighting each other for something. Fighting for their homes (Palestine), fighting to exist (Israel), fighting for power/money/oil (USA) or just fighting for fighting's sake (India - Pakistan). And everywhere there are people making money out of the strife.
Be it through shady defense deals or staged 'wars of liberation' someone does benefit.

That is why I have lost my faith in human kind. Maybe this lack of faith will lead me through to a new way of thinking. Where faith is not required and things are done on a more practical basis of demand and supply/profit and loss?

Faith is impractical in the modern age. Faith makes you want to believe that someday you will be saved. Faith makes you want to believe that in the end the good guys win. But so far faith has not moved even a small pebble let alone any mountains.