Love in times of yahoo's time capsule

did you see yahoo's time capsule? and did you notice anything?

But first, for those people who actually have a life beyond the internet and are clueless about the time capsule here is the summary: So yahoo wants the future generations to know what 2006 was all . So they want you to "..contribute photos, writings, videos, audio ...drawings ... favorite blog, web site, or podcast. (i assume that this knowledge will not include google's rising profits or yahoo's dwindling ones). It will then be beamed into space and given to the smithsonian museum, where it will be reopened in 2020.

Note they give the freedom to put in anything ...as long as it is a potrait of the present to the future. well, you'd think that the netizens would freak out and pour in their passionate hates and cravings.--"Islamophobia, jesus saves, pictures of pamela anderson"....endless possibilities. But wonder of wonders....what do most people put? a pix of the person they love most in the present. "this is my sweetheart"..."my love" "my honey" "my cutie dog.." PURE SUGAR!!

A future human being, (if he saw only this time capsule as a proof of life in 21st century), could be forgiven for thinking that in circa 2006, it was only love which made the world go around. "hey man!" he would say to a fellow future-buddy, in chin-glish perhaps, "these people cared only about love; How I would have loved to live in those times." and they would look at the happy/sad pictures and wonder what happened to the lovers; the children; and where their own generation WR25 went wrong.

Except that their impression would be completely false. Love does not make the 21st century go around--(any more than it did the previous centuries)!! Power, and money certainly and a belief in the superiority of one's religion and nations. but not love surly? ..I mean sure, all of us believe it is important, but how many people have died for love?....a lot of people on the other hand are dying and killing for religon, money, country, political beliefs, race, land, bagels....(ok..not for bagels maybe!). So collage 2006 is sappy, cheesy and untrue! But wait......

If truth be told, sappy as it is, cheesy as it is.....its awesome/glorious/amazing/uplifting to see that while millions are dying, hating, killng each other on earth in 2006---the only one thing we think important enough to tell the universe about our life is "...this is the person i loved" ! it would be unbearingly syrupy, if the emotion behind the words wasnt so genuine.

am feeling optimistic again about the future of human beings!!

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