It has been an awfully gloomy week. Cloudy, drizzling, heavy overcast and persistent rain have confiscated Sun altogether. Getting up in the morning, for no strange reasons, feels as if I was sleeping for 2000 years. Perhaps, Mother Earth is sober and shedding tears for the heavy losses in Pakistan and Indian Kashmir.
I continue to have this strange feeling that the human civilization, with all the industrial, technological and bio developments, is becoming an uncontrollable acute virus occupying Earth. An analogy might help. When we get cold or allergy, we take pills, which induce anti-bodies in the body to control the virus. I wonder if earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, giant-scale epidemics (SARS, Influenza etc) and other natural outrages are indeed symptomic of the earth’s resistance to an intelligent, exponentially growing lethal virus – humans. One could even speculate that Mother Earth influences the collective human conscience resulting in terrorist attacks and bloody, expensive, resource-depleting wars.
