About time to start blogging again

Right, it’s been a while since the last time I set foot on a blog; it’s been quite a busy and eventful year for me so far. Right now, we’re studying about sustainability (I hate that word) with Anna, I find it quite interesting to be honest.

The definition for sustainability is indeed very vague, but it can be related to anything in our living environment and most importantly, to the way that we’re living.

In my opinion, being sustainable means trying to preserve what we already have, using our resources sufficiently, and keeping the balance of the Earth.

“Social equality” is an interesting term, it reminds me of late John Lennon and the song Imagine, yea it sounds great doesn’t it? A perfect world, where everyone lives equally, yea right… As far as I can see, the very world that contains our society is dying every minute; while the level of ignorance is rising at the same speed. Yes I do reallise that there are more than one factor that affects sustainability; but they all come down to being manipulated by politic, and rarely are those people who have the political power brave enough to sacrifice their own greeds for common needs, in meaning of the global population.

As I mentioned before, sustainability is interconnected to pretty much everything surrounds us, therefore religion is not an exception. Let me differentiate religion from belief, because they are completely the opposite of each other, as far as I my knowledge allow me to know. Everyone has at least one belief; it could be either tangible or intangible. One must have a biological body to be alive, but to truly live; he has to believe in a certain goal and way in life. While belief is related to the spiritual element existing in every human being, religion is something created by human society for the sake of idolising their belief, over time religion has become much more than just a worship deity, instead mankind has corrupted it and turned it into a tool more or less for their personal desire, and somewhat a raison d'être for their deeds (apologies to anyone that is religious, but the truth is bitter). So much of a cliché; nonetheless religion has been responsible for over 50% of the dreadful slaughters in the past and still is the cause of many conflicts in our society, or at least a justification for those bloodshed. Ironic enough, most religions talk about loving the person standing next to you, none of them mentions anything about loving other religions. So why is religion related to sustainability? As the matter of fact, so many people died in the name of religion; moreover, it is used as a tool to brain wash people and turn them into believing meaningless wars that are raging across the land for the desire of power, wealth and anything alike. Even worse, religion makes people think that those who do not follow the same religion as they do are inferiors and should be eradicated, leading to breaking the theory of social equality.

Culture is not much different from religion; our society was created to have multiple cultures due to their living environment and belief. It was also created to have multiple culture stereotypes and barriers too, no matter how open minded you are, there are still barriers that make a human distant from one other. Culture differences lead to racism, classism, and sexism and so on. If we wish to maintain our world as a sustainable world, then mankind is required to work together and put aside their differences, how is that going to happen, when organisation such as the KKK is still exist? How is it going to happen, when theory like Apartheid still believed by people? I personally have a South African friend, and I was told that, even though their government has announced an end to the Apartheid segregation in 1994, 20% of their population still acts according to it, just because their education system is not strong enough to “de-brainwash” those who has been brainwashed by it.

Therefore, maintaining a sustainable world is almost an impossible mission is both an easy and almost impossible task, it is easy because we can relate it to the way we live and think; but it is such a hard task to accomplish due to the same reason, sustainability is too vast and interconnected to everything, could one be brave enough to change the world? You be the judge.