The Castles of Tomorrow

Once, we lived in castles with walls of stone, in the medieval age that made monsters out of men.

Today, when evil reveal itself in our midst the cavemen inside us responds. Instincts. Fear. Survival at all costs.

Yesterday, in the caveman world, every stranger was a potential enemy.

But wars passed by and settled into peace. Men learned that strangers could be brothers and sisters. Together, we thrived. We built castles without walls.

And over time we forgot about the wild dark world that once had been. Evil became rare in the light. Over time, though, we also grew soft and vain.

Today, when the monsters emerge among us, do we rise to awareness and adapt? No. We close our eyes and believe we are hidden. We close our grand doors, so we do not have to see what is out there in the night, leaving our brothers and sisters in the dark.

Like our ancestors, our instincts are to build walls and arm ourselves. To teach our children to fear every stranger.

We leave the unfortunate to the war, to flee over oceans and live in camps, to fear death and face worse.

“Who cares”, the cavemen inside us whispers, “if the war reaches our door when our walls higher than it can climb?”

It is a voice from a past we should have left behind.

Must the countries of tomorrow be the castles of yesterday? Where our children learn to fear and hate strangers?

Fear and hate are not uncontrollable forces of nature. The Dark Ages was a product of man.

Man has the power to create a better place for her children to inherit.

The enemy is not the many, but the few. Hate feeds on fear. As longs as we listen to our fears, hate is allowed to rule; the few over the many.