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Every morning, for the past year, the newspaper waits on my doormat. I usually read it over breakfast, which is by definition a bad combination, but when it's the only time of day that I have, I seize it. This is a habit I had done well without, but I recently moved to a new country and this is practically the daily ritual.

After the newspaper reading, I come to my computer, a little shaken but determined to work, usually I procrastinate and I browse. Today, I was challenged by this question: 10 things I hate about the world we live in.

Oh, I could mention 50.

1.Child abuse. Enough said. From a child who has to go to school without breakfast to pedophile networks. The most horrid of human actions.

2. Racism, sexism and homophobia.
In this century, hatred has increased in direct proportion to hypocrisy. First world countries thrive with their laws against any type of discrimination but in practice it is atrocious. And it never ends because discrimination works both ways: we hate you - we hate you back.

3. The morbid desire of humans to see the suffering of others.

For newspapers to sell , television newscasts to increase their ratings or news websites to increase subscribers and readers, the news has to be bad, probably even heinous. It begins with TV and newspapers, since those two can only show so much, one ventures into the, mostly, uncensored world of Internet where you can see be-headings, bombings, crying children, refugees in disgrace on-demand, any time of day.

4. Where power resides. The G8 is formed by the leaders of the eight most powerful countries in the world. How can the destiny of our planet reside in the hands of such people? How is it that war and peace, the environment, human rights and wealth are played like checkers?

5. Consumerism. My neighbors, a couple of programmers who make obscene amounts of money receive every single day a package from Amazon, they recently bought a limited edition jeep, and they treat their dog as their child buying the most absurd pet articles in the market,and have an appetite for the "incredible, new and improved!"
People are sad and lonely and they try to fill up their lives with stuff.

6. Illiteracy in developing countries. The access to books has been insufficient and at some point unattainable. Books are expensive. The cheap books are nothing but self-help garbage, superstition driven or old classics. What is worse, culture is seen as a luxury, not a necessity. Gossip magazines overrun all literary publications.

7.Gadget

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