POST MODERN HISTORY

We are all civilized, or I must say over civilized. Our children need no toilet training since the time they are born, it’s innate, you see we are post modern.

We’ve crossed all limits of modernity, but what do our history books say? They talk about the third world war, the massive carnages that took place in the past the irregular governments, the rise of a new dictator, the fall of democracy. They talk about over indulgence, forgotten innocence. Some feelings will stay words, just words with no meaning to any person alive or dead. I just leaped into the future for a while and it looks bleak. Kids have guns for toys and teenagers have tanks for cars so that they don’t leave any trace of the people they happen to meet on the road accidentally.

This is post modernization, thank god all that I had to read was modern history and all this while I thought it was the worst to have happened to mankind. Thank god I won’t live to see the post modernizing era; or probably I won’t have to mug it up to belch it out in exams. Who wants to learn non-sense? That is how it sounds sheer non sense! Read the newspapers today and read about the Beijing truce signed between china- Pakistan. Scares me! Is it the coming of the third world war? Is it India’s time now? Or shouldn’t I worry about dying in the nuclear war because I read another article on global warming, seems death has given us some options like this- or like that. Two trillion tonnes of land ice has melted in the Antarctica, it is so not funny, the worst is I don’t know how to swim! So my kids will know that kind of history? Anyway my kids will of course know about how the former president the grand Jr. Mr. Bush was treated in Iraq after retirement. The only blow in the face that he ever got was by the Iraqi journalist Al-Zaidi. The latter is a hero now! Well this may sound connected or disoriented but it reminds me of the Italian poet Gabrielle de annunzio. Well in no way are we heading into a third world war yet this means that things are again out of order. Poets and journalists look better with a pen than a weapon in their hand after all they are considered the elite’s of the society. Seems in some places people are again taking things into their hand. Seems law and order has again lost its meaning. Eventually means we need to grow up and not make it worse for those alive and those still unborn.

We don’t want another Hiroshima and Nagasaki, do we? We need to look closely into the realm of the two cities because the people born there are still carrying the scars of the past, newly born kids still carry the deformities, ages have gone by and they are still dreading the past. All that was then, 63 years back when it was an atomic bomb this time it will be worse. That time the cities could be located on the maps easily this time the war will leave no trace. Things will perish; civilization will come to an end like they never existed before. So is this the history we’re all looking forward to??????