With all that’s happening in the world today, the war on terrorism, the war on racism and the more recent war on financial troubles that is plaguing the world i have to a higher degree begun to think about what i believe the world is coming too. I usually do think about this stuff on an everyday basis, but never put much time or effort into it more than i have recently.
The reason for this is without a doubt related to my view on a lot of things, many of them really not important in themselves, but a part of the bigger picture always.
So with this in mind, i figured i should at least try to put down a few words of what i see the future becoming at it present course and what i would like it to be and a little about how i think we can achieve those goals.
It is of course a somewhat crude and simplistic look on it (i assume many will see it like that anyway) but i have always thought of life to be rather simple in it self. It is always us humans that make it more complex than it has to be.
So to get started, lets view the various types of groups we have around the world. We still have a ways to go in the issue of men vs women, but at least in the west (and in the farthest east) these points have begun to come to a halt (its more the middle-east and to a degree the African continent that has an issue on that still) As for the other issues, well there is the political, financial, religious view that are the main focal point.
In the far east this is an ok subject. There isn’t much conflict in it but in the middle-eastern area that this is really heated subject. The terrorism we face in these areas use this as a leverage to create a power point against the mightier western areas (more precisely USA). of course they have the advantage of knowing the place better than them so its still a stalemate. Of course i am not going to say religion ain’t heated elsewhere. It is seemingly a heated theme anywhere you look if you happen to either speak the wrong words (or simply utter what you think are ok words the wrong way) or if you get interpreted the wrong way by someone else (basically a breakdown in communications)
Now i can get that someone can believe in something and would want that. I used to at some point and i slightly still do. But i have also made it a point that unless someone directly insults me or my close circle for it, i won’t take offense to it. By that i add that i think about what they say several times over as to be sure there was no mistake in what they say and i ask what they mean about something i might have misunderstood.
As for economy and politics, well they walk hand in hand with the problems internationally today. I see a simple way of ending the economical situation around the world. Its as simple as unifying our resources. If everyone gets an equal share then we could bring the third world nations out of their poverty and put right all the differences between how much people make here and there. We could support money where it is needed without thinking of how to get it or if there is enough for it. Medical help would also be improved as a result of this if we simply say that medical facilities get money supported so that everyone can get the treatment they deserve.
Of course to do this requires everyone to agree on a political system which is hard in itself. Seeing as we have all sorts of them running around these days with Korea (or half of it at least) being dictatorship still (and i am sure there are more than just them around) and we still have those that want communism and those who love capitalism. Now the dictators will have to give up their spots cause that is an otherwise impossible spot to add in, but the communist and capitalists can still work well together. I Keep thinking of how we do it here in Norway.
We do believe in the free marketing, but we also believe in fair marketing. Thus we have a divided system. We have the government running its own operations with power to intervene in the private market should the need arise (say a devastating bankruptcy or monopoly situation) and we have the free private market run by the everyday person that wishes to run their own enterprise. Now the government can’t interfere just as they see fit, there are rules for how it has to work and they work fine too (not flawless but changes can be made) The free market can also get deals with the government to make stuff or whatever they may need so they work together for a common good and there is a balance between the two forces.
I am not saying we should go by our system, but we aren’t the only ones with this system and any of these can be used as an example. Getting this sorted opens up for people to get work where ever they may find it. People can travel more freely and in the end i think we can feel safer overall with terrorism and other crimes against humanity.
Many will by this deduce that it seems like i am trying to unite everyone under one banner, and to tell the truth, i am. But don’t think this is going to affect your nation in any cultural sense, cause it won’t. While the borders between nations will be erased, i believe that culture is not bound by borders, but bound to ones heart. If you really want to preserve something then you can still do that simply by showing pride in it and sharing it with equal minds and anyone who wishes to know of it and celebrating it when it is cause for that.
The other side is to always accept that culture was until we began record history a fleeting thing. Always changing always moving and always adapting to the circumstances. The fact that we can see what it used be should be proof of that and people should learn to embrace the changes, not fear them.
Most of my friends all agree that change are good. Like me they don’t have much sense of their “own” culture, but they have culture. They have embraced a global ever changing culture taking in whatever the world has to offer and fitting it into their own if they see a place for it. But through this they still have that national feeling and and a feeling of belonging, a feeling of being a Norwegian (i don’t even have that).
Thus with this it is my hope that the world can stop shedding tears of blood and start shedding happy clear tears of joy that can shine in the sun. To share the earth we all belong to be it black or white, be it this or that religion, be it this or that culture, be it on the west end of the world or the east end.
in the end, in our lifetime there is not like we have anyplace to go or we would all have said our goodbyes and left for other planets around the universe.
