Intelligence: Increasing exponentially
Ability: Outstanding potential
Technology: Discoveries daily
Advancement:
Stagnant
Flatline
Standstill
Dead.
Wait a second, how is that possible? We have the intelligence, ability and technology to move faster, yet as a society we haven't made major strides to better our race. We haven't cured the diseases plaguing our world. We haven't been able to live comfortably even though there is enough wealth to go around and back. Why are we still living like this?
Why are we still crippled by a tiny virus like Ebola? Is it because we simply don't have the ability to handle it? Some of the greatest minds in medical science are alive today, why can this not be stopped? Well, isn't it unfortunate that some of those minds can't contact the others and work with them simply because one is in the U.S. and one is in Russia? We live in such a segregated world that it is halting our progress. Every country must outdo the others in every field and it completely eradicates any possible attempts at cooperation and slows advancement.
And why are the majority still struggling to live in a society so advanced? By this point we should've eradicated poverty long ago but instead it rings stronger than years past. Those at the top stay at the top and, despite any advancements in society, those at the bottom remain on the bottom, in large and larger numbers. Shouldn't a society that has been to the moon and back, has a computer in every citizen's pocket, and can see down to a size unimaginable be able to sustain its own people? Where did we go wrong?
You bring up an interesting argument, and as you stated our world is at the point we are at because of lack of cooperation. In today's day and age from the time we were young you look up, up to what you could have but you don't. Whether it be wealth or happiness there is always something to strive towards. And as we grow we tend to turn inward, we begin to achieve only for ourselves. That is until we reach a point when we look back and see what we left in our desperate crawl to greatness. Personally I wish that there weren't so many expectations in our society. This will most likely never change but we can change it.
ReplyDeleteBy overcoming the need to be the very best, why not lend a hand to your common man? This would be the only way to dig our world out of the rut we find ourselves in today. If we can put aside this crippling self-worth and need to achieve for ourselves then we can move forward. Then humans can use the vast amount of knowledge that is present in our world today. Also interesting post by the way.
Very interesting point Bryan. I see what your point is and it is very obvious. We humans have the power to help drive us as a race forward but our old world ideologies that halt us. Those who posses the power to change what is wrong have alternate motives about what's being done. Humans tend to be rather selfish but it's that selfishness which stops equality from spreading. When you think about it, there are so many people on this earth and it is almost impossible to unite everyone together with so much hate throughout. It would take an earth shattering event to turn our world's society around.
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