War

Kim and I’ve just finished a Gundam 00 (Season 1) marathon… In just half a day… Thanks to Mas who took the initiative and have the desire to download each episode, one by one… A process which I believe completed just quite recently… After about a week…

Like all other Gundam series, I can just say that this latest installment of Gundam is awesome… However, in my opinion, Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed : Destiny are still the best… It can’t be argued that the story-line is more complex, fresh and interesting, but I still fancy Kira and the gang… Much much more…

After watching it, I was inspired to write this post… Why there is still war even when we’re aware of the fact that it’s painful? What a cruel thing is war… To separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world… To fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors… and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world… I, unfortunately, have this pessimistic belief that war is highly likely to curse us, the human race, forever… Some of you might disagree with me… But that will just open up room for discussion… I might be right and I might be wrong… Hehe…

To be humane and considered normal (damn!!!) in this so-called civilized (But I doubt we now have the level of morality to even be considered civilized) world, we suppress our animalistic instincts… This prevents me from killing you and vice-versa… But honestly, I enjoyed killing very much… Very very very much… Hehe… In Counter-Strike and GTA only though… Especially when the target is a sniper… xp…

Like Einstein (Einstein as in Albert Einstein… Not Fitri… Hehe…) once said, the release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking… The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind…. If only he had known, he said he should have become a watchmaker…

I believe that’s the prove that somewhere deep in our mind, there’s some kind of primitive impulse for war… Somehow, we do enjoy killing… But who am I to say that I understand the human psyche as a whole? Who am I… I’m not the creator…

Like in Gundam 00, wars usually involve three sides… Two obviously opposing sides and one seemingly neutral side acting as the agitator, warmonger, observer, aggressor or whatever you would like to call it… The two opposing sides have their own ideals and are willing to fight to death in order to protect it… There is no simple right and wrong here… It’s either both sides are wrong or both sides are right… But my main concern is neither of these two sides… It’s the warmonger that worries me the most… They incite war, sell weapons (to both sides) and gain huge profit… They get money for blood… Blood of regardless a heroic soldier, innocent civilians or children… They are, for me, the greatest form of abominable evil… They exploit our primitive instinct of blood thirst for their own ends…

What or who can we label as warmonger? Is it a corporation? Or is it a multinational company? Or maybe it’s just down to one person? A group of people? Just think about it yourself… Who’ll profit the most when a war broke out? Who?

Hehe… This post is quite long but I hope you guys get what I’m trying to say really… 

War does not determine who is right… only who is left…