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"Life is supposed to be difficult," he said taking a long swig for his ornate hip flask, "It’s the struggle against the infinite violence of a universe.” I smiled, perhaps he was right or perhaps he was just an asshole making it up as he went along, but the gravity of his remark struck me unexpectedly. The default to life was indeed struggle, for all life not just intelligent life; why would I be exempt. I didn’t care for the man and his insidious gloat of pomposity. Nothing is absolute, nothing certain, which makes the possibilities boundless. The joy of life is making it from one moment to the next through adversity and earning the things the things people say about you when you arrive at your freshly dug grave carried by those you hold dearest.

Friday, 24 June 2016

The Brexit Vote

After the shock has dissipated people will realise these things:
There is no real advantage to leaving Europe, sovereignty in a connected world is only a word and that even the democracy we claim to live by is deeply flawed.

My vision for the future is one where people don't walk around with their hands in their pockets.

One of great realisation, that money and the lines on a map are simply lies told to us to hold us back and give us someone else to blame for the world’s problems, to make us feel better about the little we have.

It’s a world where we reach out to each other because we see each other not as citizens of divided countries but as a Human nation.

And why should we not be so ambitious? After all we tamed the oceans and the skies and even put a man on the moon. Yet we fail to conquer the beast inside of us all, the fear someone else will take what is ours.

And in its purest form this is what we see now by voting to leave Europe. The mistaken belief that you are special or privileged simply because of the happy accident that is the geographical area in which you were born.

This is a step back from a path that could deliver true glory for our species, a failure that our generation is now responsible for and that history will remember us by.

My hope is for a future where people reach out to each other, out of Love and compassion and live lives that are outwardly focused, on that day we will call ourselves civilised.

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