Great Decisions

In the history of the world, great decisions have arguably been few and far between. Something that is heightened when we consider the human cost of war and what it has cost this world.

How many lives and how great of a loss in terms of productivity and efficiency could have been spent sending people to the stars?

We could arguably state that without war and destruction, our species could be exploring the galaxy in a way never thought of today.

We could have warp drive and we could have colonies on the moon, whereas, instead, on this day we have deaths every day due to the consideration that one soldier has been told to kill another.

We have companies putting their children through prviate school based on the consideration that war is profitable.

Human beings have since the dawn of time taken it upon themselves to kill and continue killing, which is something that will not end in my lifetime.

I wish it would but there will never be world peace in my lifetime and whilst I wish this was not the case, it is. It will continue to be so until one country does something unthinkable such as wipe another country from the map.

America dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, so we, as a species has crossed that off the map. We have bombed our own people in a horrific manner that cannot and should not be repeated, yet we live in a time and age where that possibility is real.

A new cold war is here and it will not go anywhere, anytime soon and whilst I hope that sense will prevail, the odds are that humanity is destined to destroy itself or more particularly, blow a hole in the map that cannot be easily repaired.

I hope that I am wrong in this assessment but that is not the historical precedence that proves that conflict is everywhere. Every single minute of every single day, death and destruction reign supreme. We have forgotten what a utopia could look like if we worked together and instead focused on pressing a button that will ensure mutual annihilation and in many ways, maybe this is what humanity needs.

I hope that annihilation does not come and if one nuke is dropped whilst I am alive then another will not follow. If one country is taken out, the world and the people will react to stop another from ever happening.

That we would recognise this destruction as being unnatural and something that should not be allowed to continue. That we would step up as a species and prevent further chaos but time proves this hope wrong.

9/11 ignited a war on terror that has killed tens of thousands and continues to reign supreme today, not through strength of arms or the invasion of another country but through the shift in life.

America has arguably never recovered from that moment in time. It has remained fixated on that event and geared it's entire security posture around that event, to where if war kicked off then they have a military base available near any area of concern to quickly and efficiently respond.

I would like to say that England is no longer of strategic importance to a country such as Russia but realistically, the links with America could place us in the frontline and under the eye of Putin. Would he launch a nuclear bomb at us and would America commit the resources to respond?

You would hope so as that is why we have an alliance but the realism of the situation is that the UK's time has come and gone.

Our influence on the world stage has weakened and we have further accenuated this through the ignition of Brexit. An event of xenophobia in action and one that I cannot and will not agree with.

It was driven through fear and that is never how we should make our decisions. This is why we continually build up weapons to invade and defend when what we should be doing is focusing on the species.

Humanity can be brilliant but before it can be it needs to forget the past. It needs to move beyond the petty jealousy and pain of the past and focus on the present one what we could do as a species. Focus on the collective resources rather than considering what we could take as this is not where the future lies.

I would like to hope that as a country we have enough to defend ourselves but that is realistically not true. Not anymore. I wish that we did not need all these guns and weapons but in this day and age, it is impossible to get away from it.

I hope that one day humanity will wake up and smell what it could be but this is a dream of a naive version of myself. If a younger me had hopes and dreams of this nature and now the potential future father is looking at what works will my children inherit?

It is one that is flawed as humanity has and always will be flawed but this is what it is in the consideration that some things in life you cannot get away from but we can channel those feelings elsewhere.

I love my wife and want to raise children with her but at the same time, I am so scared.

Nervous of what tomorrow could be when I should have faith in everyone around me and whilst I hope there would never be another world war, I would say that this is a distinct possibility for the future and do I want to raise children under this level of fear?