Sastro Wathon

One of the waterways in Venice, 2019 .  Summer, 2019. The cobblestone streets was filled with humans from every corner of the world. Just meters from it , the transparent glass bridge became the gate to the legendary city. Under the bridge, the canals passed through. Littered with gondolas, speedboats, and water buses. What are water buses if you're wondering? Well they're like the TransJakarta, but on water and no motorbike is irresponsibly using their route. Above the opaque navy waters, dozens of seagulls roam freely in the blue sky. Chirping and flapping peacefully in their undisturbed corridor, unlike the busy waterways just below them.  In every corner of the city, every human from every corner of the world and from every age group, took group photos, selfies, aesthetic shots, and some -while rarely- admired the beauty of the city in quiteness and loneliness. What these people did is no strange behavior. The city is admittingly beautiful in every corner of it. Th...

Semenjak era enlightenment dan renaissance di Eropa, kaum intelektual, akademisi , terlebih mereka yang mengajar ilmu pengetahuan sanggup meraih posisi dan status sosial yang lebih tinggi dibanding saat zaman kegelapan abad pertengahan. Di beberapa negara mereka bahkan berhasil menggeser pengaruh para pemuka - pemuka agama yang telah lama memegang hegemoni kekuasaan berdampingan dengan para raja. Mereka yang dapat memahami dan menjelaskan dengan lancar hukum gravitasi Newton lebih dihormati dibanding mereka yang hafal kutukan - kutukan di Bible. Sains, ilmu pengetahuan, dan prinsip hidup sekuler mulai mendominasi segi - segi kehidupan di dunia. Disebarkan oleh negara - negara Eropa yang mengembangkan imperium mereka ke seluruh penjuru bumi.    Fast-forward 500 tahun. Keadaan di Indonesia tak jauh berbeda. Walaupun status sosial para pemuka-pemuka agama seperti ulama, pastor, dan biksu tetap tinggi, prestise seorang akademisi bisa dibilang melebihi para pemuka-pemuka agama ter...

        1500 kilometers from Berlin, lies the capital of the Italians. Rome, the capital of a former empire that spans two continents and whom the world of antiquity kneels to. The hub of civilization before there was any scent of globalization. The "Caput Mundi" or the "Capital of the World". Also the birthplace of the Republican system of government. Which in turn gave birth to one of the most known figures in the history of mankind, Julius Caesar. The great Roman general, conqueror of Gaul and Goth, Consul of Rome, and the first to gain the title of "dictator" or more accurately "dictator perpetuo", which means dictator for life. His last name alone became the name of a political philosophy based on his leadership, Caesarism. Caesarism is a political ideology which essentially means a sole dictatorship. One person controls everything in one nation. All authority in the control of one small human brain. Which has the right to decide ev...

  May 1945, the war was nearing to an end in Europe. The Soviets and the Americans were in a race to Berlin. Hitler's best compatriots have losen hope. While the man himself was still sinking in his own enormous ego. Everyone else knew that Germany had lost. It was only a matter of time before the Red Army came marching through the streets of Berlin. They were slicing through Nazi Germany's heart, taking over every piece of land they saw, when finally, they arrived in Auschwitz. There they discovered the hell on earth that was the concentration camp. People wearing no more than their skin , which was attached to their visibly apparent bones, desperate to get out. Pleading behind the barbed fence. The smell was unimaginable. This was the moment when Nazi Germany's worst crime had come to light in the international world , "The Holocaust" as it was named, had almost wiped the entire Jewish population from the face of the earth. 6 million living, breathing, human...

 Jika kalian orang Indonesia, kalian pasti sudah tau, bagaimana memalukanya Garuda   kita takluk lawan kedisiplinan permainan The Lions , timnas Singapura. Gol tunggal dari Harris Harun cukup untuk merenggut 3 poin dari Indonesia. Bisa dibilang hasil itu cukup pantas melihat skema permainan Garuda kalah jelas dibandingkan dengan The Lions. Garuda kembali melestarikan filosofi permainan Indonesia tulen, yakni giring bola, long ball ke depan, lalu berharap yang terbaik. Garuda seakan amnesia akan permainan cantik mereka pada pertandingan - pertandingan sebelumnya, saat berada di bawah kepelatihan coach Luis Milla. Sebelum dia memutus ataupun diputuskan kontraknya oleh PSSI tercinta.  Siapa yang bisa disalahkan atas kekalahan memalukan ini? Tak lain dan tak bukan Ketua Umum PSSI a.k.a Ketua PSMS Medan a.k.a Gubernur Sumatera Utara, Yang Terhina  Mulia Bapak Edy Rahmayady. Didasarkan atas obervasi saya terhadap pernyataan, perilaku, maupun sifat beliau selama in...

 Selamat , anda telah tersesat di dalam hutan "amazon" dunia maya  sehingga bisa menemukan situs sampah ini. Jangan berharap terlalu banyak. Saya bukan tipe orang rajin yang pandai menulis. Hanya menulis jika perlu, jika mau, ataupun jika mampu.  Konten juga lumayan (tidak) menarik. Perkiraan saya anda hanya akan tahan 10 detik (bahkan kurang) sebelum mencela tulisan (sampah) saya. Kalau tidak, selamat ! anda mungkin (gobloknya) sama kayak saya atau ngga anda belum pernah membaca sama sekali seumur hidup.  Butuh perkenalan ngga ya, ngga usah deh. tidak berguna. Kenal juga nanti anda malah menghujat langsung ke Ig saya, @f*********. Hujat aja, gausah follow. Mem- follow  IG saya dapat menyebabkan kanker, hipertensi, impotensi, presensi, serta batuk berdahak. Oh ya, konten (busuk) yang saya tulis biasa bertema seputaran politik (iye iye, ga mutu amat kan). Jadi yang mau menjadi manusia yang lebih bertaqwa, berakhlak mulia, serta berkepribadian bangsa langsung ...