Kabul and Modernity: An Ugly Contrast

Besides that this photo tells thousands words in its context, like how artless and ugly this glass building looks among muddy houses in the ruins of civil war, it also shows a rigid dichotomy between Afghan society and modernity. Afghans fantasize modernity and they imitate it badly and ineptly, but I assume that is how a country should start rebuilding itself and strive for conformity with its status quo.

Also, this the result of one decade pouring money into one of the poorest and corrupted countries in the world and such is the outcome of corruption that offers a pampered life for a few and wretchedness for all.