The Great Divide

From Nothing to Something

It's been stated that if the distance between both of your arms extended outward from side to side were to represent the length of time the earth has existed, then the very thin white line just at the tip of your finger nail would represent the amount of time humans have existed since first appearing on earth up to the present day (200,000 years). This simple example shows how little progress we've made in such a large amount of time. In contrast, we've become enormously advanced in just the past 100 years. In fact, most know that just over 100 years ago we were still moving around by way of literal horse power. The ending of our animal based transportation system came rather suddenly once the combustion engine was invented. This new industrial propulsion system gave us plenty of headroom for years to come, but yet today we're looking for something better, and without a care in the world as to where we are going.

In the grand scheme of things it's clear that more time is needed before man will be able to solve its long list of inherent problems which plague the many areas of our societies; all being problems, by the way, that we imagine a modern advanced alien civilizations being well past. When looking at how far humans have evolved since our earliest time, a prideful feeling of collective accomplishment, or worse, a likely unjustified selfish personal feeling of contribution creeps its way into one's mind. But the truth in the story of our progress is that only a handful of people across our vast population is responsible for our achievements in math, science, and technology to name only a few. Most of the population doesn't contribute anything to our progress and, in fact, only hinders it. In the same way a boat can hold only so many people before it sinks, a decent well-mannered population can have only so many blood sucking degenerate people in it before it destroys all that was good. At this point in time, only a great divide will preserve what is good in this world. Like a nice suburban neighborhood located far away from the ghettos, world suburbia needs to separate itself far away from the infectious onslaught of third world ghetto standard people intent on destroying all that has been built. It's the only way to protect and preserve what is about to be lost. This preserved society would take the opportunity to fix some things in the process. A new way of thinking would be instilled into the minds of the young where money is not the ruler of its people and society. Typically, the few individuals pushing things forward don't contribute their talents for the sake of mankind alone. They do it for monetary gain. For this to change, people need to be born into a society which doesn't worship money, but instead, contributes their knowledge, talent, and skills for the benefit of all.

We will further examine this situation once getting some deep negative views out onto paper; a life-long frustration I've carried around with me since childhood, and to which I should express now so that I don't end up plastering this writing with speed bumps of this nature, which I fear could affect the reader's focus in regards to grasping the ideas, concepts, and logic which I will attempt to explain. It's only now while beginning to write that I realize that my negative opinions and views of the world will be somewhat difficult not to express while writing. My life-long frustration is rooted in seeing such a large amount of untapped human potential in myself, and our entire population.

The truth [for me] about being a part of the human species and its societies – that of which I regularly find myself feeling more than unenthusiastic about being a part of, is that it often leaves me feeling ashamed to be human. For people possessing a highly creative solution-driven natural optimism, it takes little more than keeping one's self informed about world events; its hard-to-believe laws, or knowing how things work in our so-called advanced civilization and its forever attached monetary system, to be discouraged about our progress. This is not to say that I never stop for a moment to look at the glass as being half full. I often do. During this time I may even experience a mild feeling of personal human pride when thinking about my own contributions to our human race. But it's not long before the understandings of my personal potential, along with the understanding of our human potential as a whole, and how unlikely we are to reach that potential, that I'm brought back down to earth. It takes only a few minutes; a phone call; an email, or reading an article before falling back into those life-long solidified views that have hardened in me throughout my years of real-world experiential pain and suffering. The only good news in all of this is that I believe I've learned things from it; things which I intend to detail in this book. I believe it will be something of value but not likely until long after I'm gone.