Humanity Status!

I write this blog with an absolute feeling of numbness. I just read (note, I couldn’t bring myself to watch this movie after some snapshot recital of this movie by my friend) the story of the movie , the hostel I and hostel II on wikipedia which of course led me to the site of more gruesome details and the stories of movies even more gruesome. I was left with a feeling of numbness (I am a person who is an absolute believer of Karma and believe that if I kill an ant I would receive the same treatment in my next birth) and to read what I read made me realise as to what state has humanity finally reached.

At a time when I am finally boasting as to how we have fought gravity and reached the moon, I keep wondering if humanity has finally slumped to these degraded levels. This movie talk about cheap thrills and the thrill human being receive, in this case the thrill the rich clients receive out of mere torture and killing of innocent victims and the existence of an agency that lures innocent victims into this place where rich clients pay the agents to torture and kill people.

What bugs me further is; how does the movie making fraternity arrive at this kind of a concept and I am wondering if this kind of a society does exist to influence these movies.

I know that we have reached a stage in life where news like a mother killing and castrating their month old children, knifing (very prevalent in London) …..seems like ordinary news to us …but this whole concept of cheap thrills worries me and I am wondering when the supreme made this world, did he imagine it reach this stage ever.

What worries me further is the very fact that, we have known of cases where in we have had life imitate art and if this whole concept of this cheap thrill agency is fictional, will it really come into being cause the idea is already there.
Will rich human being actually vent their frustration out through blood shed?
Is there no fear!!!!

Of course please let me also talk about this movie called TURISTAS, which talk about innocent tourist in brazil being kidnapped and their organs being sold, no prize for guessing that not only their organs disappear here ..But they too disappear from the face of the earth.

Why I write this blog is that it worries me that these movies actually have a fan base and I am scared to know the real percentage, but the very fact that these movies are made and some of them get critically acclaimed, I am beginning to fear of what my future generation has to see and deal with.

I agree sometimes when someone has done me wrong, I do actually wish that all the wrong and the mean things happen to him/.her ….but I have certainly not reached that level where I have even for a moment imagine killing that person ( yeah a punch or two does gets delivered in my imagination, but that’s it)

How cheap has human life become…..don’t these murderers and rapists and (I refer to those dowry hungry rascals as well) have any value for the human life ….for a moment of happiness, for a few extra pounds and (please let me not even get started on what is the lowest amount of money that people have been killed for) they are ready to kill people.

Is there no fear anymore? Even if one does not believe in god …isn’t there a value one can associate with life. What makes one think that they have enough rights to take someone else’s life, and that they have enough money to have those kind of rights.

One may argue by saying that this movie can be an outlet to ones frustration, but can’t these movies at one point be an influence as well.

When I was growing up I was told to not to just respect my elders but the whole humanity as such. Aren’t parents these days doing their job? Why do we have so many frustrated people? Why should we have to deal with cheap thrills?

When there is poverty, one can reason the killing for money …but when one has all the money how can one reason one brother killing another for an entire share of property. How much is enough? Ultimately this boils to the most dangerous Vice – Greed.

But can someone please explain the concept of cheap thrill to me. I don’t get it and I don’t hope I don’t get it, because if it has even a slightest resemblance to the movie, I wish a huge meteoroid hits this earth.

Come to think of it, I feel that my conclusion about human greed for power answers it all. Everyone in this world wants to be powerful. The greed for power, to treat humans as mere mortals and at your mercy answers it all. I like that feeling to have been in command of a team (and I was just a leader for my team in college, but yes I like that feeling)

This greed to control…to feel powerful, be it a country, a society, a caste system, individuals …everyone lusts for power. Explains this cheap thrill agency...the mere power one feels to control another human life and make them beg and then kill them and feel powerful.

But tell me. How powerful do you get? Ultimately one kills for money, he enjoys his lifetime with his riches and then he dies leaving everything he killed for down on this very earth…

People who know of the Czar 52 crash, all atribute the reason of the crash to the personality disorder of the pilot Holland, a personality disorder which involves putting your co pilots life at risk to get the thrill of facing a near death situation. . But does personality disorder really make you a devil of a human being.

How powerful does one want to be, is it right to kill. Is it right to cheat. Is it worth loosing your friends and your loved one?

Is power that important? If given a chance would you kill to feel that power?