Random Thoughts Salad

Ukrainian TV shows news about happy Ukrainian guest workers in Greece. What is the reason to do that?!?! Everyone tells you what he needs from you, but no one asks how he can help you ... It's nice that sometimes, people can revive the once successful projects. Many of our contemporaries compare late Roman Empire with modern Western Europe and the US. Do you think they are right? When I see a lot of people those dreams have failed to come true it is scary to me.

Dying Off Nations?

I hear many talks about globalization and nations disappearing. They are everywhere in newspapers, on TV, in Internet, in radio broadcasts. Hundreds and thousands times people inform us about nations, languages and cultures deaths. Well, name me, please, a century or two when no nation disappeared? As for me we are in the most small nation friendly time. We live in time when slogan: “Unity in diversity” is widely applied.  Millions of people are interested in rare and exotic cultures… Millions of people are eager to study foreign languages and cultures.  Isn’t it a great environment to restore even half-forgotten customs and traditions? Do all of these small-nations-disappearing-thinkers think if someone speaks English he turns into an Englishman?   

Wise Joke About Problems

There is a good joke about problems. If you have no problems, check your pulse then. Don’t we complain too much? Don’t we think about our unhappiness too much? Well, we complain and think. Are we right? Sure, we aren’t! We must overcome the abundance of our thoughts and feelings and do what we must do. We must build our life, not wait someone to come and build it for us.  

Deadmen.

Some people I truly admire and love as a friend  are dead. Sometimes, I have a strange Cobain-style feeling : «I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends, they're in my head». I remember these people: their language, their appearance, their manners and characters ... They all were so different, so original, separate from me. But now they seem to live in me ... It's such a strange thing... Does  memory in old age finally turn from stories of victories and defeats to the spiritual variant of the cemetery?

Fantasyfication And Glamourization Of Horror

It is no secret that some of the dark subculture elements are actively being joined to the mainstream. "Gothic" image for conformist one on Halloween, zombie parades, using of dark esthetics elements in the stage costumes and videos of pop stars, all this is just the beginning.

The climax is an attempt to attract some non-conformists to mainstream. The pioneers of dark and gothic subculture are imposed to admire for example a war of vampires and werewolves in a very fantasy-styled or glamorous manner. Even zombies suddenly become incredibly beautiful and even sentimental ... Look at these pictures ...

 

Environmental protection issue.

People always polluted their surroundings. But until now pollution was not such a serious problem. People lived in rural areas and did not produce such amount of polluting agents that would cause a dangerous situation in global scale. With the development of overcrowded industrial highly developed cities, which put huge amounts of pollutants into surrounds, the problem has become more and more dangerous. Acid rains, global warming, air and water pollution, and overpopulation are the problems that threaten human lives on the Earth.

Overpopulation Issue

For hundreds of thousands of years, the human population grew at a low but steadily increasing rate. Then, in less than last 200 years, the world population went from several hundreds of millions to more than 6 billion people.

The Earth has certain limitations and in particular, there are limits to growth of things that consume the Earth resources. Many people believe that these resources, both the Earth and the human intellect are endless and population growth can continue and that there is no danger that will ever run out of anything. Yet, many people had predicted catastrophic shortages of natural resources that would follow, because of continued population growth. Countries try not to raise this subject to public much, because they do not want to raise panic.

Every second five people are born and two people die, so there is a gain of three people. At this rate, the world population is doubling every 40 years and would be: 12 billions in 40 years, 24 billions in 80 years and 48 billions in 120 years. But the Earth could provide food only for 20 billions people.