Generally, a year within a
universal context would chronicle nothing on a cosmic clock, but for the dominant
creatures traipsing the planet have repeatedly proven adept, ever since the
cognitive revolution, at effecting despair and chaos even in nothingness. From
the time when Homo sapiens diverged from their less cognitive cousins, they subjugated
and destroyed every ecological system they visited upon and wreaked havoc on every
other species and their own race; even bringing their own existence to near
extinction innumerable times from the onset agricultural of societies through
the age of artificial intelligence. The species remains inherently blighted
with a knack of bringing itself close to despair every time its members profess
to remember a near escape from the last near extinction. The year 2016 began with
world poised with confidence and connectivity unlike ever before and despite
ever present problems the humanity never looked depraved. Nevertheless, there existed
parts in the world, that emitted cautionary signals; those paled in the larger
context that never looked so hunky dory. The year couldn’t have started on a
better note than the news about the detection of gravitational waves. That awe
inspiring moment came on February 11, 2016. The world came to know about detection
of gravitational waves that originated from the merger of two black holes,
about 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, about 1.3 billion years ago. That’s
the time it took for those waves to lunge the planet earth. The event that was detected
had happened even before sapiens had come into existence. The gravitational
waves predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity were actually
detected on September 14, 2015 at 5.51 (EST) and were announced only after peer
review, an established scientific practice.
The merger of the two
supermassive black holes that was revealed on the earth more than a billion
years after it happened show cased the apogee of human advancement that would
leave an illusory visitor from another universe baffled. That would also give
an imprint of a trouble free civilization bereft of woes. That could have been
too if the species had conquered its own checkered propensities to
self-destruction. Three months prior to the momentous detection of gravitation
waves that brought in a new epoch, an ominous announcement came from an
unctuous self-described billionaire about his shot at to succeed Barack Obama
as the US president. Donald Trump, something of a brash playboy given to
diabolical hyperbole, had spent most of his immediate past years in a dodged and
disingenuous effort to delegitimize the presidency of Barack Obama through so
called birther theory. That Luciferian insinuation could attract unchallenged traction
signaled troubled times ahead for those plagued with perception. Instead, the proclamation
of his candidacy was met with an all-round derision and night-show hosts in a long
time actually earned their wages at the cost of Donald Trump. They mocked him
for everything from his the color of his hair to his comically grandiloquent and
woefully inadequate vocabulary. Experts divined his longevity in the campaign
from two weeks to six month before he would fold his tent and went back to his
business. They are still mocking him but with a perceptible nervousness as he
with his worsened but intact uncouthness has become the most powerful person on
this planet. How did humanity come to such a pass?
