Suicide Bomber, Terrorist, Nuclear Silo, America and our Future.....

Referring to the movie Freedom Writers, though it may be only about kids from a ghetto, in the light of recent events in Bangalore, the unrest in people in different parts of the world has a similar motivation. Be it terrorists or the kid in school brandishing a gun or anybody for that matter, human beings always fight to protect what they believe is their own. Many times the cause is far too trivial and is even forgotten in the years of animosity. People have been fighting wars since the birth of life, the battleground is the only thing that has changed in thousands of years of civilisation. It is disheartening to realise that till today we haven't been able to solve the differences that motivate people to go to the extent of suicide bombing. I agree that sometimes the reasons are complicated but definitely most of them arise from the shortsighted narrow outlook people harbour. The physical or religious differences being the most often ones. I suppose sustained tolerance may be impossible but indifference isn't a bad option either.

One way of looking at this could be that we are made this way and will remain this way so that we perish eventually, because of ourselves. One could argue that being part of nature, how can we put human beings above its laws. True, the animals inside us may never die, but that doesnt mean we cave into a shallow arguement like that and give up.
The philosophy of the movie Freedom Writers as I understand is to take stock of things for ourselves rather than be caught up in a web of war where everything we do adds to the tumbling pile of mud sinking us deeper and deeper. Even today places like Kashmir, Jerusalem, Tibet, etc are war ridden. The one thing our planet cannot bear are nuclear scars. Racism, money and now OIL! I definitely feel that the youth today are in the dark, where tomorrow can be a paradise or a battlefield. All the development we boast off is only the bright happy side of the coin. The other face is always left in shadows.

The form of colonialism openly practiced in the last few centuries is now in a different disguise. Economic oppression has left countries with lesser resources or developing/under-developed countries hugely dependant on other countries. America, I feel are no different from the Islamic terrorists, as they too find ridiculous excuses to wage wars (In the name of democracy! Thats a load of BS) or they already have made the countries economically dependant so the Government there bends to their wishes. Infact I wonder who is to be blamed more for the current turmoil, America or the Islamic terrorists.

America even go to the extent of saying that they would go ahead with the N-Deal with India even if there is a minority Government! As long as they get benifitted, let the world rot, who the hell cares?
One can only hope that people settle their differences rather than pile up hatred into another world war.

There are a few lines from the movie that are really touching:
Miep Gies: You are the heroes. You are heroes every day. But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.