Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” So what did the human beings do for ages? Were they reasonable? There are heaps of questions flying in my brain? Like Gauguin, I ask myself: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

The delusion of progress is like a pill for all of us today. We love to talk about it. It gives us self-confidence, it helps us to grow our egos more and more. As we get older, we like to put that in words as we get wiser. It is kind of a personal progress, isn’t it? How about the progress of the human being? Did it help anyone to change the world? I wanna change the world… Because I don’t want to change myself…Moreover I don’t want to pay any effort to live the game according to the rules of the nature…

Many of the beautiful things we don’t have today are lost thanks to our great(!) civilisation. Starting from Easter Island’s monolithic wilderness to Wilhelm Golding’s “the God of Flies” we never ever wanted to confess how wild and how destructive we were and still the same story is going on and affecting more people. There is a growing ozone hole, who cares? There is the drastic climate change, who cares? There are millions of people dying only due to unfair wealth distribution, who cares? Animals and plants extinct, who cares?

What do we; the human beings care of? First of all money… Secondly, an image of a paradise: so to say religion… We love to own things… We love to own money, material things, houses, cars, clothes, sometimes even animals and most of the time our wives, husbands, girlfriends, children… We love to control everything but can we control the nature? We can control many things: stock markets, money markets, any kind of markets…

I want to give up now… I don’t want any kind of progress if it deteriorates the nature, the world and the lives of unborn generations… I remind myself that the journey finishes exactly where it starts…

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