Turn on the news and you can see Trump, I mean President Trump, getting high on his victory. I thought he was running for president as a joking matter —like Stephen Colbert did back in 2008— and here we are now looking at the brand new, fresh from the tan bed, president of the United States. I mean, I am not an American citizen but as an International Relations scholar myself I cannot help but care about it. Have you seen the names in his possible cabinet? Americans may have either Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani, or Pam Bondi as the Attorney General in the very near future.
All I can say is: good luck, 'Murica.
Then you can see 'Ahok' and 'defamation of religion' in one sentence in almost every local news portal existing, every single day. I want to say something about this but just last night, I read someone's long ass opinion on Facebook about it and I couldn't believe how divided and full of hate our nation is, judging solely by the comments posted. As a Muslim myself, I feel sorry and terrified at the same time. I feel sorry to other religious communities in this country for having to keep up with our shit. I feel terrified because (1) I can see the true power of information through this case, and (2) the whole thing only solidifies my belief that there's no point of having faith in humanity anymore.
(That's it. I don't want to be sued by extremely sensitive people.)
The next thing you'd find on the news is Choi Soon-shil the Korean Rasputin or —in a more Indonesian context— Korean fusion of Bunda Putri and Gatot Brajamusti. I find this one fascinating because it turns out that the concept of 'having a spiritual guidance from a spiritual mentor that basically sucks your money out of your bank account' also exists in South Korea. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised because politics is dramatic after all but having a possible technoob who discarded her unencrypted Galaxy Tab full of confidential information (and a bunch of selfies) controlling the heart and mind of your president is taking the drama to a whole new level, especially because Park Geun-hye is actually, willingly, swallowing everything Soon-sil feeds her with.
Lesson learned: Korean dramas are good.
What else is on the news? Oh yes. People living under siege in Aleppo are running out of food, and here I am having my second cup of coffee for the morning out of anxiety with no sign of feeling better at all. Now that president Orange (am I being racist?) is taking over American foreign policy, I cannot (more like, I don't want to) imagine how much of a mess it would be. It is already difficult to untangle the situation in Syria, and now that we're about to have a bunch of twisted policy makers in charge, it will be painstakingly difficult to see the light in this war.
But let's not be too pessimistic. I mean, as the sleepy potential Secretary of Education Ben Carson said:
"Even if Donald Trump turns out not to be such a great president, which I don't think is the case, I think he's going to surround himself with really good people, but even if he didn't, we're only looking at four years..."
Of course, Ben. Nothing bad could possibly happen in four years anyway.
Clinton's electability, however, was flushed down the toilet overnight after her email scandal 2.0 featuring Anthony Weiner and his raged hormones.
Well, not really. Hillary already came under fire during the previous election though. We later found out that as a Secretary of State, she was using her hdr22@clintonemail.com address instead of an email with .gov domain—very suspicious. Julian Assange despises her so much he leaked her mails (David Duke thanked him for this on Twitter) as well as John Podesta's —her campaign chairman. After this election, though, people were so desperate they crashed Canada's immigration website.
So you, Americans, are not only looking at four years. I mean, the Civil War and even World War I happened in a four-year course. Wake up, Ben.
This might explain why Elon Musk and his missions to Mars sound promising. Perhaps the sole reason why he founded SpaceX was to escape the mess we've made on Earth and start humanity over in a different time and space. However, going to Mars would cost an estimated 10 billion dollars per pax so unless your name is listed on Forbes, you need to sell your home, sell your ride, sell your wife, sell your kids, sell your kidney and any other organ you can bypass and still be alive without it, do money laundering, corrupt the government, and maybe even sell your soul to Satan or whatever —and you can only say goodbye to this planet by 2022 (if the plan works) so you have at least six more years of life on Earth to endure.
But come to think of it, you would still face the exact same kind of species with the exact same social construction inside their heads —unless the ticket includes brainwashing activities.
Now that we are left with no choice but to continue living, I really do hope that people would sit down, blast Paul McCartney's and Stevie Wonder's Ebony and Ivory on their speakers (it's a good song), and think about minimizing conflict. A world without war and conflict only exist in a place that is not yet to exist —basically nowhere— so can we please just Netflix and coexist? Netflix is good. So is coexisting. I made a thesis about peacebuilding and I thought that everything I wrote was shit but then I realized that while creating an ideal condition of positive peace is difficult, creating a peaceful relation between arch nemesis is not impossible. So, maybe I wasn't that high on caffeine while typing anyway.
(Although, I'm starting to believe that the end of the world will not be due to natural causes but human-made wars against humans themselves.)
Still contemplating on moving out of this planet, though.
Een enkeltje Mars, alstublieft.
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