A Not So Perfect World
Sir Thomas More once philosophized about a place beyond our wildest imagination: a place where society lived in harmony with its government and where war does not exist, a place which he named Utopia. If Sir Thomas More peered through the looking glass at our world right now, he might take back everything he said about the possibility of a Utopian society. The state of the world right now is at best, volatile. Where terror reigns supreme in a world torn apart by hatred, one can’t help but live with a hint of fear. Ever since the attacks of 9/11, nothing has been the same. A color has been assigned daily to the terror alert at hand, and talks of bombings are ever present. With wars raging over religion and ideology, is it an impossibility that mankind will ever get along?
If it is true that we as humans are all part of one race, the human race, why is there all of this fighting? We fight because we don’t agree with one person’s belief in God, or we hate because of another person’s skin color. All of these trivial things are killing us, killing us physically and killing our hope for a better world.
Then comes the question, do we have a right to hate? Has all of the unfortunate events of the past 5 years given Americans and given people abroad a reason to hate, to hate the United States for our intrusive foreign policy, and do we as Americans have a right to hate what was done to us by foreign terrorists after 9/11? In trying to end terror, the U.S. brought on more of it, and that is what is truly unfortunate.
Is the U.S. just misunderstood in its efforts of policing the world to restore a common order? Maybe, just maybe, we hate because we are all a bit misunderstood. Living in different spheres of influence causes us to have very distinct views on the world. Sometimes these views are a bit extreme, for example, to kill or not to kill in order to protect ideology. To some, terrorism is a way of life, but to us living in a world where it is everywhere, it is a part of life. At the end of the day though, terrorist or not terrorist, we are all fighting to protect one thing, our beliefs. So we may be far from utopian, but we live in a country with enough integrity to protect the rights upon which its government was built, and with that we will overcome an terrorist, or any attack that comes our way.
