Our Broken World: A series of ever-changing opinions

How Do You Sleep when Your Dream's On the Line?

     This world has updated far from walking around with spears in our hands and hoping that we can find enough food in one day to sustain ourselves to the next. We started there, but ended here. How did we do that? We learned, we recorded, we expanded our knowledge, and we taught others how we thought, what we saw, how we learned, and how others could learn, too. This all came around because someone had an idea and acted upon it, yet there's only so much one can do in their lifetime, especially now, when the people are wasting most of their youth not being taken seriously, even though they are often the ones that often have the brightest ideas. In fact, even if someone does manage to start pursuing the change they wish to see at an early age, it still takes lots of hard work and patience to change things so that the new rules or lack thereof still comply to basic regulations and safety measures. But these changes have been made many times to get to where we are today, like how we went from barbaric conquest to established countries and nations, each with their own set of established rules, each one different, even if there may be many similar - if not identical - to popular sets of ordinances.

     Lets start with how the heck did we even get here? People had to come up with the idea of wearable layers to keep us warm, there had to be a person out there somewhere that figured out that humans could learn things and retain knowledge passed down from one generation to the next, and be able to carry it on even after they died. Hence, how the popular practice of storytelling came about. Then there was someone who must have figured out that images on cave stone walls could be preserved better than hand gestures around a campfire, and were much better at communicating a string of events. Then there was the invention of the written language, which, without it, so much would never have existed, and this being followed by the invention of numbers and math, then of the common alphabet that allowed communication to become so much easier. It's crazy things like this that allowed us to get from then to today, even though we take it for granted most everyday. See how I am able to write online with next to no limits? Imagine if all I had was a stone slab, limited space, and only one person could see it at a time. Plus, it was heavy, and if that one stone slab broke, that's the end of that; you can't exactly weld stone back together and have the words or calculations still remain upon it. Yes, I know thinking about this may feel a little silly, (it does for me, anyways) but each time I look at something and realize just how long it took to develop something that would have no place in the natural world, I just feel a sense of wonder fill me. If we came this far in only this length of time, imagine what would happen in the next twenty years? Hundred? Thousand? And this world is developing and will continue to develop as long as there are humans willing to put forth the effort to change something, make it greater, to update something so that it's more caught up with what is going on today, like our school systems, or the way we think about certain policies. For those of you living in the US of A, do you think that we should just interpret the laws for what the founding fathers meant back then? No! It would not make sense to, especially now that we have such a different way of thinking and more weapons and things that need to be handled and controlled that no one back then would have dared to think of. These basic guidelines are still followed, however, just in a different way that they were before. Imagine if every place in the world updated their most basic principles each time they needed a slight change. There would be so many layers to get through to get to the core of how that place is ran, and changing something would cause a whole uproar. So instead, it is up to the people and more importantly, those in charge, to see the laws in a different way so that we can continue to move forward instead of trying to document every single tiny, itty bitty shift in the core of each country across the world.

     So now that we have the basis of humanity, where have we gone that made us use words like 'we' and 'us' to 'I', 'me', 'my' and 'yours' and 'you'? Well I will not refrain from telling you. That answer is now. I will be asking questions that I am not sure how to answer, but have found great joy in trying and seeing how I think about these things, and what I do about them. I urge you to do the same.