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Posted By: aber0derThe end of chess.
I thought they would take our jobs. Instead the AIs are playing games and driving expensive automobiles.
There is a famous story attributed to the angling writer and humourist Fred J Taylor who, with some pals, was fishing at a lake in the dead of winter for pike. It was bitingly cold, they were alone on the water and Taylor and his pals had been at it since dawn. By mid-afternoon, huddled up and hunched over their lifeless rods, they were chilled to the bone. Ice had begun to crinkle around the margins and then it started to snow. For hours, silence had reigned amid the stoicism. Finally, Taylor’s voice came floating down the bank: “Gawd”, the others heard him say, “I’ll be glad when I’ve had enough of this.”
Alastair Cook’s belated Christmas gift to the nation is being gratefully received by people staying up into the early hours. Kathryn from Newbury sent a message to the BBC’s live text coverage saying that she’d been wondering where her husband had been all night until she saw that Cook had scored 244 not out. A few minutes later another text appeared, from a man called Adam, saying: “As we seem to be communicating exclusively through the BBC Sport live text, if you could pass on to Kathryn that I’m on the sofa and I’d love some breakfast. Thanks.”Ha!
The refugee crisis is not about refugees, rather, it is about us. Our prioritisation of financial gain over people’s struggle for the necessities of life is the primary cause of much of this crisis. The west has all but abandoned its belief in humanity and support for the precious ideals contained in declarations on universal human rights. It has sacrificed these ideals for short-sighted cowardice and greed.
Establishing the understanding that we all belong to one humanity is the most essential step for how we might continue to coexist on this sphere we call Earth. I know what it feels like to be a refugee and to experience the dehumanisation that comes with displacement from home and country. There are many borders to dismantle, but the most important are the ones within our own hearts and minds – these are the borders that are dividing humanity from itself.