The year is 2110. I sit in front of my computer writing a letter, rather typing it on the VDU. The email may or may not reach its destination. The satellites shall fall soon for the Earth is indeed fallen now. The war has completely devastated us. Philosophers had warned that man’s desire to test his strength through destruction would lead to some dire cataclysm. That has happened. It began almost a century ago. It was all over by 2050.
The increasing polarisation of the world could only spell disaster and the inevitable followed. Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation destroyed way back in 2034, had exploded a bunch of dirty chemical weapons in the US in 2012. The holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was revisited with more than 800,000 Americans dying due to the anthrax explosion. Suddenly disorder became the order of the day and justice became personal and subjective.
America bombed what had become Talibanistan into smithereens. (Pakistan and Afghanistan were united under the Taliban regime as Talibanistan.) The Taliban fired three nuclear bombs across India while the Indian government was busy preparing for elections. India’s population problem was solved in a few minutes. More than a crore died. India desperately attacked Talibanistan which had already been annihilated. China’s differences with Russia caused a highly destructive war. Five powerful nuclear explosions destroyed the world as we knew it.
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Peace came when the world was already in pieces. We now have a world that is not united. We hardly have nations where there is a government. Local groups and tribes call the shots across almost all the parts of the world. There are efforts by the USA and the UK to reconstruct the human civilisation. But it is more like selling glasses in the city of the blind. There are very few takers.
We fail to realise that the future is not an inheritance but an opportunity and an obligation. Fighting continues, though on a smaller scale. About sixty per cent of the world’s population has started living in the wild and is struggling against the effects of radioactive poisoning. Back to basics, I presume!