Now, I am sure I am beating a dead horse, something like this has been said forever, but I am not doing this as to give out new information, it's more of a consciousness raising statement that others might not ever think about because they are too busy with the hustle of daily life. Well, I don't have a "hustle" compared to most so perhaps it is my job to make other people aware of things that they normally don't have the time to think about.
Well, first off all let me start by saying Human Beings are magnificent creatures. We can build computers, design buildings, split atoms have complex nervous systems filled with many emotions. We are able to think, reason, make decisions and put actions to those decisions. Alas, this is not about how awesome we are as a species of 300 million others.
Before humans, and this is subjective to your beliefs, the earth was covered in luscious wildlife, mammals, dinosaurs, birds. The scenery was much more pleasant then as it is now I am sure. Landscapes untouched by human hands, things just occurring with out interference from intelligent beings. Then we came along, and realized we could manipulate the world around us. Well, we start harvesting resources to fuel our desire to learn more and more and more. Throughout the history of humans we have been building, creating, using, destroying, wasting, collecting, any verb you can think of, we've been doing it forever.
What that means is we've been slowly chipping away at our planet bit by bit taking what we need and creating waste and destroying our environment. That's just how it is, we have to do this to survive, and while this may not matter to me in say 100 years for obvious reasons, most people now don't realize this world isn't going to last forever, and in that next 100 years it will be the next generations problem that will have to miserably attempt to fix what we couldn't.
Well imagine if every person on this earth had one common goal? We do in a sense, survival. But I feel as if that is one of those things we put behind all of our other material goals. It's kind of involuntary like a heart beat. The heart "knows" it has to keep beating, but it goes on in the background without us consciously aware of it at all times. Well, if every single person was conscious of this at all times, and made it their common goal I see it as this.
You have computers, networks of computers, and supercomputers. Computers on their own can only do so much...word processing, browse the internet, download videos. The single computer is a person.
Now you have a network of computers say, a group of computers connected to a server or forum. People in forums all share common interests. These people can get more done because they have a collective of common interests and more computing power. These would be your private interests, businesses anything collective below government.
Well, when you have a lot more computers than would be in a group, those are super computers, computers that can map the galaxy or the human genome. When you put all of this power together you get exponential results. These are your governments, organizations, religions. (which by the way, just cause you're a supercomputer doesn't mean you can't have errors and crash and have glitches ;) ).
All these computers have different operating systems, have different technology/protocols, some attack others with viruses, make them crash, have major errors, and just can't agree on anything.
If every computer was connected to one common goal, say getting all of our eggs out of one basket imagine the possibilities. Every person just working towards exploring our universe and finding new homes.
Well, lets snap back into reality for a second. As pleasant as unity for a common goal sounds, there are a lot of obstacles to jump if this were to ever happen.
Humans aren't computers. But similar. We evolve, we change, but what makes us different is we can think. Computers only do what are told without question. Well, I guess some people are computers; anyways, thinking leads to more complications than any computer could have. Humans are capable of delusions, hallucinations, altered realities and consciousness, we all have different beliefs based on our observations and experiences which then molds how we feel about our surroundings.
What makes it even worse is humans are greedy and selfish. So if you believe something strongly and somebody challenges it you're going to cling on to what you have because you believe it to be true based off your experiences and what you've been told because you know nothing else. You might become agitated, feel hate towards these people, want to harm them because they offended you or whatever the case may be.
This is our problem, we can stop fighting over who is right or wrong, whose beliefs and superstitions are correct, what is moral or not and cannot come together for one single purpose.
I could go on but I'll end it here with a question. What are we going to do when our planet is dead and we can't figure out what to do because we spent all of our time and resources on killing each other? People who could have figured out how to get off this island, or done something good, but died because of greed or some belief. I know we are making progress in some fields and there are always going to be the people fucking shit up. but I feel like we are not computing at maximum power and I just hope we evolve past all this nonsense in the future and work together to get off the rock which we are sucking dry. Well I guess I didn't end it with a question...
I feel like I got off topic towards the end but I hope this makes sense.
Moral of the story, imagine a world with a common goal. Survival.
Which brings up another thing. Maybe this is just how we evolve. We are still bickering about things, because we don't know everything, maybe as time goes on and our knowledge increases we'll be able to sort all this shit out, but in the mean time, just have to go with what we have.
