On the Human Condition

In the past, this was seen as fair in most economies. Currently, its quite unbalanced due to growth (And if you know anything about how 1 degree can offset a journey of a million miles, you may understand how important it is to get something stable before an explosion in population growth causes the flaws of an institution to become exaggerated). And I see in the future, that only unintended harm will come to those seeking conveniences. Those farmers and workers incorporate their bodies and minds into something, and quite strenuously, while most urbanites decay rapidly from the supposed fair trade off: We’ll take care of the bureaucracy, you take care of the heavy labor.

Over the hundreds and thousands of years that this method was implemented, the numbers of those given time to devise religions, wars, and governments rose. We now have the result of selective breeding mixed with social Darwinism, and that means humanity has lost so much of its strength. Not only in what it is naturally, but what it can become. Our potential has waned, because we’ve let our natural gifts slide. To believe humans were made for running, jumping, climbing, twisting, swimming, fighting, and creating, and those abilities have been lessened by such steep extents due to the tendency to want the easier way out. Though notice we have yet to create the free lunch: Technology abounds, and so do efficient ideas for old methods, but selected people must carry burdens for several people, and our planet has had to suffer for our need to pass on our seed which will then draw more and more resources.

I believe in a flow of energy that is too abstract to delve into here, but I feel that is why people have separated into several different cultures. Why there are people on one side of the world who follow a doctrine of materialism, while there is almost an equal amount of people — if not more — who believe that self-denial is the path for their enlightenment on the other side of the world. Balance must be maintained, for it always has, so extremes cause extremes, because a higher high needs a lower low to get back to the middle ground.

Combine those extremes, and our sheer numbers, and its like a vessel too large to steer. Perhaps we’ve run off course, or perhaps course doesn’t matter and this one is just unpleasant for the crew, no matter though — its still too hard to turn back. Thusly, our potential has been lost, and substituted with an aching desire for something unachievable now. We continue on, unable to see the water and land we left behind the horizon, looking at only what is around us for answers to our dilemmas. Nothing seems to fit just right for any holes in the hull of our vessel, so we just keep going on, looking for more to add to the patchwork as our work fades over, and over…