Man alive, it comes to something when the atrocities in Lebanon and the enormous typhoon ripping in to China are incidentals on the BBC news.
On wednesday I flew to Edinburgh and back on BA flights. No hold baggage, just a briefcase with my iPod, a book, a couple of documents, my phone and my keys. Based on the current rules, that briefcase will have to go in to hold, meaning a 4am start on monday and an extra hour or so added to my day waiting around for my briefcase to arrive at a carousel. All because a bunch of so-called Brits wanted to martyr themselves by killing hundreds of innocent people?
I remember that being a kid involved scrapes with lots of other kids, creating enemies and getting in to fights, until our respective parents told us off, smacked us and made us say sorry to each other. After that we more often than not ended up best friends.
So it seems to me that this is exactly what the human race needs, someone to come along and make us be friends. After all, we all have to live together, and we will never achieve Gene Roddenberry’s vision of humanity unless we all stop trying to kill each other. However it must be noted that in his vision, we did go through a third world war before realising the error of our ways. It should also be noted that having a “parent” to make us all be friends could perhaps be called a dictatorship, something that Anakin Skywalker never got his head around until he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
Now i’m sure some of you (assuming that the readership is more than me) are bound to be saying “yes Matt, but we have been fighting each other for hundreds, maybe thousands of years”, and to that I say yes, indeed, but is it healthy to have any habit that long? Surely it’s time to break the habit and all be friends, to be nice to each other and all go on a picnic or something. Religious hatred, when you think about it, is a bit daft considering that nobody knows who is actually right, i mean who can be sure that the omnipotent one is buddha, allah, god or Dennis Bergakamp?
Back to my original point or thread. Thank you to the security services for averting such an evil plot to kill more innocent people. Even though my trip to Edinburgh on monday will be an even longer day than it was going to be, I am happy knowing that there are people out there protecting me from nastiness.
