The world we have been learning to
understand has left us with some unsettling numbers to qualify.
120: The maximum length of heliocentric
years that cardiac muscles can manage to maintain previous to nigh complete
dysfunction.
5: The percent of the universe that
contains every major atomic particle that has a similar structure to us. Also,
coincidentally, the number of atoms that form the major organic structure
through a moderate variation of interactions to create the system by which the
chemical reaction we are can be made to work.
0.00000000001: The percent of the universe
covered by light in one year of travel.
We are finite, insignificant, myopic.
I do not feel these are qualities that are
necessarily the fault or culpable acts of any specific aspect of what or who we
are. I believe in our wonder and amazement we find ourselves, if only in
momentary meandering, yearning for a more complete view of all that is about
us. Our near-sighted default has proliferated from a universe design where
humanity composed the central aspect of everything, with the core of all action
processing about us, aligned to our desires.
We cannot alter that we are a minimal part
of the universe. The composition of the universe is the culmination of billions
of years of the alternative mechanism whereby energy and matter reorganise in a
grand and elegant fashion. We barely comprehend that it works, much less how it
works. We are in the grand scheme insignificant not by choice but by
coincidence. It just so happens most of the universe does not work the way we
do.
I suppose I find it strange that the two
aspects for which we should feel so little shame for, our destined
deterioration and our inalterable insignificance, we feel are so very pitiful.
We are the result of the lesser
side-product from an enantiomeric excess that caused an unfavourable
back-reaction, which made us as the least amount of many various side-products
of this unwanted secondary reaction. Shortly, we are the universe’s lesser
product, a mistaken transformation in this great chemical reaction mechanism
that is our existence. Accidental is our adequation.
We should not be discouraged by this.
Our place is laudable, not laughable. Our
delusional preconception and precondition of our own worth being essential before
we even discuss the rest of the universe is the pathetic piece to this
panorama, not that we have to share the universe.
We share part of a miraculous elegance that
we can partially manipulate and hopefully unravel. Obscurity is what our birth
transplants to us, but it need not transpire forever.
It will though, so long as we allow it to
remain that conception of considerations and ideals must lead to a world of deleterious
disagreement as one of the most common aspects of our species.
A species where common is crime will
neither survive nor prosper.
We must not walk in fear of one another if
we are to grow past our obscurity. We remain obscure more due to the reality
that we obsess over our position and its essential quality to everything, for
this is the worst mistake we can make.
We must be ready to disagree as motion
towards greater understanding and consider the possibility of many forms of
perception. We have each other – this must begin to at minimum satisfy us.
Clearly as of now, it does not.
We are living in a time when intellectual
and conceptual purity is a legitimate directive of major social groups, and
this cannot be promoted. A man once said that ideological “peace” with other
conceptions corrupts – he is the man we know for building some “great” wall,
often with the bodies of his workers.
We need to assess this mindset as
appalling, not appealing.
We cannot confuse dissent with disloyalty,
much less disagreement.
Our loyalty must now, and for any hope of
true survival, be to each other. We must begin to believe in one another and
turn from darker thoughts. There is nothing out there to save us from
ourselves. The fervent hatreds that we so frivolously spur forth must extinguish
as quickly as they ignite. We can no longer desire mastery of anything more
than our own faculties. We can no longer look up for our salvation or down
towards despair; we must look to the left and right towards those who can work
with us to promote the most profitable patterns of our personalities.
More than any prescription, we must end the
accredited and acceptable view of all things that value is based on a
compensation system. Perhaps it is necessary that some aspects of life must
fluctuate from a conceit of one person’s “work” as “better” than another. Yet
this must become marginalised and specific to that causality alone. This ideal
cannot stand in our view of self worth.
A poison, a noisome nuisance has beguiled
us in our willingness to value ourselves and Others. We view disagreement and
fairly made distrust as despicable. Are the oppressed and disheartened supposed
to wait forever before someone allows them to speak their mind? How can we look
at the world as it is and say that our method of going forward with eyes near-sighted
and linearly-directed, and be proud? There is very little to be proud of here.
We have lost so many good hearts to exhaustion because the very notion that
they could disagree with “established order” was a crime in itself.
We cannot allow this to occur. We cannot be
afraid of arguments. Most of all, we cannot be afraid of one another.
We must not walk in fear of one another,
and so long as we remember that we are not descended ideologically from the
fearful, perhaps we can take heart to live up to promise of our pedigree.
What pedigree is that? It is whatever you
become the moment you read the words “all Men are created Equal” and this ideal
alone becomes the core of your every heartbeat. That is our birth right, as the
birth right of all Mankind. It is not the property or the rightful inheritance
of any one person or group of people.
The reality that what is most important is
a world where equality and fair participation with each other must be our only
true goal has been unleashed from Pandora’s urn-like gift. It is now up to us
to make that ideal human.
We must rise to this greater ideal. We must
begin with acknowledging that we will disagree. We must accept that we all have
different concerns, considerations, and conditions. I truly believe everyone on
Earth having a house to live in would amply affect society. Some disagree with
me. I am willing to hear their ideas, so long as they have ideas.
We cannot ignore or deny simply based on
our distaste. So much of disagreement and inaction in our world today is simply
because we do not want to do what is staring us in the eye. We must grow beyond
this. This, before any decision, must be our focus. We must not rely on the
belief of our destined ascension, or the “inevitability” of human nature
changing. In twelve thousand years we have changed very little.
We need to evolve socially, in a way we may
have never imagined possible.
This must occur if we are to survive our
trials and our terrors. There is more about us to challenge us than we have
dealt with, but it can be overcome. We need each other though. We need our
human family to be with our goal of improvement.
In this I hope to make my overall goal
clear before a series of rather blunt posts that may generate criticism.
I do not want any one person to rule the
world, me most especially. I do not want every social institution destroyed and
thousands sacrificed for “order”. I want what we have to come into question.
More importantly, I want us to actually answer these questions, no matter how
painful the answers are. We must flesh this out, and when we have finally found
a place we all can agree upon, I want us to drive forward, for each other
towards a belief in equality, in fairness, in decency, in dedication.
I want the words ‘Humanity matters: all of
us.’ to have meaning in words, actions, minds, and hearts. And if we think one
another monsters for simple aspects of trying to flesh out an argument and
finding an aspect to disagree upon as the disqualifying offence for someone’s worth,
then we are doomed to far worse fates than oblivion.
