Nothing has changed.
But so has everything.
Look at humanity. I've spent thousands of years on Earth. Thousands of years of wandering, of watching, of waiting. I've seen humanity progress as well as digress. I've seen them grow, I've seen them prosper, and I've seen them wilt. I've seen beast turn into man, and man to beast.
Their minds are sophisticated, their knowledge admirable. The planet is littered with machinery and creativity, advancements and innovations. They fly through the air with the absence of wings; they speak and communicate over thousands of miles. They can manufacture the light of the sun and bottle the scent of the sea.
It is the age of creation, the age of enlightenment.
They've learned how to survive, as well as how to thrive. Intellectually, technologically, they are the most superior species this world has ever known.
But they are cold.
Their hearts are stone, their compassion has vanished. They know so much, have discovered so much. They have so many answers to their never ending supply of questions.
But they have forgotten how to love.
They create war, they master death, they embody violence. But they can't grasp the miniscule concept of kindness.
Something so natural, so simple, so pure. Something that is as old as humanity itself is... lost to them. When pain is more common than care, and apathy replaces empathy, that is when you know they have failed. We have failed.
Humanity has failed.
And our world is lost.
"If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, 'Jump,' and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love."
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, The Message
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