Faith In Humanity: Gone?

Let's just close our eyes and appreciate that we aren't living in fear of a bomb or chemical agent being dropped on us any second. Now open your eyes, open wide, and look around you, look wide, look at the state this world is in. 

While we are fighting about whether the moon was seen or not, people are being massacred.

That face you  make when someone who has
no knowledge of the topic tries to argue with
you

Yes yes, the world has improved progressively over time, but savagery still remains a part of human nature and is still found today, and will continue to take place. We have abolished slavery, we have made great leaps in science, we have landed on the moon. But we still do not have the common sense to stop killing people in the name of some twisted extremist/political beliefs.

Apparently anything you say against Jews is antisemitic and anything against racial colour is racism nowadays and comes with severe consequences but when it comes to other people (Muslims especially) its called something else : "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" (notice the quotation marks?) 

Mind you, Jews are just people like us, with their own bunch of extremist nuts. I have seen so many people, especially on Facebook  just hurling insults towards Jews in general. If we do that, we are no different from the people that stereotype Muslims as "Terrorists" or Hindu's and Sikhs as "Barbarians". 

Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Burma, Afghanistan etc are only few of the places where the savagery of the human species is amplified. We are seeing so much violence and death in the news to the point we are desensitized to such images. We boycott and post statuses but after a few weeks they are nowhere to be seen. The truth of the matter is a harsh reality, nothing is going to change unless we elect educated and unbiased leaders who can take a stand, but sadly that isn't going to happen anytime soon. (So much for Yes We Can, Obama)

The biggest victims of all this
Our next generation

What we can do might seem cliche but yes: AWARENESS. We should raise awareness and educate people, you'd be surprised by the number of people who don't know about the people being butchered in Gaza, 16 MILLION people killed in WWI and 60 MILLION in WW2 8,372 boys and men executed in 2 DAYS in the Srebrenica Massacre (1995) or that the US Gov't was found guilty by a US court for the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (You probably know him as the "I had a dream guy") etc It's sad we don't know such things but can name football teams and movie stars off head.

We should educate first ourselves, only then can we enlighten other people.

Open your eyes, open wide, and look around you, look wide, look at the state this world is in...