2022

Two years have passed, and the pandemic has modified us in ways beyond what we were willing to entertain years before. With climate change peaking around the corner, and the information dystopia ravaging our daily lives, are we going to slide all the way down? 

Then comes the war: an actual physical war. A war between Ukraine and Russia that all my logic and reason would have said is impossible, but one that nevertheless was being fought in the shadows, and reared it's ugly when one thought it is least possible. 

Confusing thoughts keep fighting each other. Thoughts are expensive to express these days. You pay with a different currency however: political or social inconvenience or time. 

 

People, and therefore Governments, keep getting conservative. How could we have known such a change was coming? Not only physical, and biological, but also psychological.

2020

This year is proving to be a year of note. Unfortunately with nothing good, but with bad news, bad events of enormous proportions. So much so, that it forces me to write again about the thoughts I keep getting filled up with. 

So what are all these events that have been rocking the world? Since I am not the most updated on all the news from all over the world, I will concentrate on the usual suspects: the West, in particular Europe and North America and then India. Anyway, these are the geographical regions I am most connected to. 

It is not only 2020, but also that 2019 ended on a note that was rather disturbing. With the Indian economy slowly slipping behind, the government decided to introduce and pass the so called Citizenship Amendment Act, a few months later it divided and declared Jammu and Kashmir to be Union Territories. I am not going to get into the latter, or the former in any detail, but suffice it to say that these acts of parliament look clearly anti-muslim. And one would have thought that after the Supreme Court ruling of the Ayodhya case went in favour of the Hindus, they would give it a rest.