The Wasteland

This Wasteland, drawn by KCE Gleghorn of EQUUS Machine FX, is a highly detailed computer graphic portraying how the act of war, renders what was once a thriving city and its surroundings into smoking ruin. Such an image provokes its viewers to remember T.S. Elliot's these lines from famous poem, The Waste Land,

Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn
A crowd flowed over London Bridge
so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

Wars and death undo countless civilisations throughout history. From the time of the Romans to Nazi Germany, aggressiveness has countered with more aggression, all of which are "justified" by the different "righteous causes" such as sovereignty or removing the world of "evil". It sounds like the world we live in is like J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings universe, where evil masses together and looks hideous. When will the world finally see Man co-existing? Are we only going to stop the "eye-for-an-eye" principle when everything we hold dear in our hearts becomes part of a post-apocalyptic wasteland?