Has the World become wicked?
While some of the leading prophets that walked the earth
predicted that a day shall come soon when the world comes to an end, when
wickedness shall be on the rise and the wicked shall be vanquished while removing the good to safe havens.
Nevertheless, the world continues to throb with life. This does not mean that
the prophets were wrong. Time scales can vary and what is soon for a prophet
tuned into timeless Universal Consciousness may be quite different for you
and me. In an earlier post in this blog, this blogger had remarked that the way
population is increasing on the planet, it might become unsustainable by 2030 or
perhaps 2050 and that might be the time that the Lord decides to step in to fix
matters.
This time would also coincide, as per the prophets, when much goodness shall disappear from the face of the earth; when
selfishness, meanness, wickedness etc. shall rise. Is that happening in our
world? On the whole now are humans becoming kinder and nicer folk
instead?
I have spent my childhood in India and also
presently live here while having lived in other places as well in the interim. During
my younger days in India,
there was a practice in many North Indian middle class restaurants that when
one ordered a meal of a nice spicy dish and oven roasted unleavened bread, dal
or a dish of lentils was served free on the side. However bit by bit over the
last four decades this practice has vanished and now they charge for it if you
want some. There was another practice in the local vegetable shops. When one
bought some vegetables for the day’s meal, some herbs like green chilies or
coriander used commonly in local dishes were added free to the food basket by
the vendor. This practice too has disappeared slowly but surely over the last
couple of decades. Now they charge for it if you want some. Could this be a
sign that the world has become meaner? However, one cannot jump to conclusions
from isolated facts from a developing country. To get a clearer picture one
must turn one’s gaze to the largest economies of the world and look at major
data, not just a bunch of coriander leaves. Let us look at USA.
Recently it was in the news that while the US economy has
started growing, the benefits have only gone to the rich and the income of the
middle classes has not increased. That is something that has been happening
over the last several decades. The income of the middle classes is not rising
while that of the rich are and inequalities are growing. That is something one
would expect in a world that has become meaner and more selfish. The rich and
powerful control how the economy works. It is not that simple solutions are not
available to fix inequalities or the bonuses of bankers. This blog has talked
of that earlier.
As regards the poor, homelessness is on the rise even in the
richest country of the world and while some might expect some humans to come
out in charity, one might even see the reverse in a world gone crazy with
wickedness. They might even make it illegal to feed the hungry and the homeless
and that is what it seems is happening in some places. It seems that in Florida they even jailed
a ninety year old who had been feeding the homeless for many years.
A time may come when prisoners shall be captured, taken to
a far away places to be locked up without trial and tortured, a time when because
some one loved the profits of illegal drugs and killed others over it, little
children unaccompanied by their parents will run out of their homes in fear, trekking
across thousands of mile for a safe haven and when they arrive at one; they
shall be gathered and locked up in cold unheated rooms. Is that happening now?
This blog has articles on such minors. That is not all, in a wicked world we
might see many twit there fingers while children are killed and bombed out of
their homes by the thousands and millions and that too is happening unfortunately in our world.
So on the whole dear friend, with all its economic and scientific advancements, does it look like the world is
getting kinder or more humane or is it that we are near times of unsustainable wickedness amongst a large and influential section of humanity?
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