Dwayne_Jason
Do I have everybody's attention now
I never understood where we fucked up.
Was it religion? Patriotism? Imperialism? Vanity?
Its about being proud of the country and such but do we really need something like that?
I mean, I don't mind it (even though American Patriotism is cringe worthy, especially from the ignorant) but I just don't understand the notion of being proud of a geographical landscape that was once established by a group of people.
Now many people will say its not the physical country its the people. Well here's the thing, why be proud of a people in just one geographical landscape? Shouldn't we take pride in the human race as a whole?
I mean with all of Bin Laden's death I don't feel happy (one really shouldn't) but I kinda feel like...well, the best way to describe is ashamed.
I look at Nature and I marvel at its creation. I look at the eco system and I still cannot for the life of me understand how in the holy friggin' hell did a clusterfuck of animals with COMPLETELY different genetic makeups become so orderly in a neat, organisational system. Not even WWE production studio is that organized.
That being said I look at each and every species and NONE of them have the same problem we do. Sure they're animals and such but no animal in the world cept ants kill each other (except for a blood lust but we don't have that problem...so far). I mean really, no animal in the world has harmed another member of a species because one group didn't agree with another.
Okay, I understand that in the ancient times we didn't fully understand everything, we stuck to religion and superstition to explain events and we had war. Fine, I'll let that slide (even though a basic religious scholar knows the difference between dogma and religion).
But what about today? We have a people who are more concerned about some unimportant wedding than kids dying of malnutrition the same friggin' day.
Poverty, Starvation, Malnutrition, Drought, child labor. These aren't problems brought upon by God. We created these problems. You can call it politics or capitalism, point is, we created a system in which people die of eating and another bunch of people die because their arteries are clogged with quater pounders and beer.
We created a system in which the social class is determined by whoever has the most amount of money. Not talent, not skills, not IQ. Money. Social status equals money. Or good looks. Both of them are a plus.
We still can't fathom that the body is controlled by the mind ie. if you feel sad, your body feels it. We can't fathom it. Its "pseudo science" because if you feel sad you gotta take them pills and not try psycho therapy. Cause that's for morons.
We created a system so ill conceived and disastrous that we have to work on it every single day, its all over the news and it constantly divides a god damn species into killing each other. Just think about that for a second. Think about a cluster fuck of a system that we tried to create but failed at so miserably it'll probably take a century or two to realize we fucked up.
You can derive this as politics, capitalism, bureaucracy, etc, etc they're all interconnected.
That's the human legacy. We're going to be the only species in the world that has a shot of wiping ourselves out.
Bin Laden's dead so congrats America you stopped a terrorist.
Or you could have funded construction in the 80's to rebuild Afghanistan and turn it into a normal place after they fought the soviets for you and those terrorists might be your good friends.
So you tell me, where did we go wrong? Did we not go wrong? Why not?
Was it religion? Patriotism? Imperialism? Vanity?
Its about being proud of the country and such but do we really need something like that?
I mean, I don't mind it (even though American Patriotism is cringe worthy, especially from the ignorant) but I just don't understand the notion of being proud of a geographical landscape that was once established by a group of people.
Now many people will say its not the physical country its the people. Well here's the thing, why be proud of a people in just one geographical landscape? Shouldn't we take pride in the human race as a whole?
I mean with all of Bin Laden's death I don't feel happy (one really shouldn't) but I kinda feel like...well, the best way to describe is ashamed.
I look at Nature and I marvel at its creation. I look at the eco system and I still cannot for the life of me understand how in the holy friggin' hell did a clusterfuck of animals with COMPLETELY different genetic makeups become so orderly in a neat, organisational system. Not even WWE production studio is that organized.
That being said I look at each and every species and NONE of them have the same problem we do. Sure they're animals and such but no animal in the world cept ants kill each other (except for a blood lust but we don't have that problem...so far). I mean really, no animal in the world has harmed another member of a species because one group didn't agree with another.
Okay, I understand that in the ancient times we didn't fully understand everything, we stuck to religion and superstition to explain events and we had war. Fine, I'll let that slide (even though a basic religious scholar knows the difference between dogma and religion).
But what about today? We have a people who are more concerned about some unimportant wedding than kids dying of malnutrition the same friggin' day.
Poverty, Starvation, Malnutrition, Drought, child labor. These aren't problems brought upon by God. We created these problems. You can call it politics or capitalism, point is, we created a system in which people die of eating and another bunch of people die because their arteries are clogged with quater pounders and beer.
We created a system in which the social class is determined by whoever has the most amount of money. Not talent, not skills, not IQ. Money. Social status equals money. Or good looks. Both of them are a plus.
We still can't fathom that the body is controlled by the mind ie. if you feel sad, your body feels it. We can't fathom it. Its "pseudo science" because if you feel sad you gotta take them pills and not try psycho therapy. Cause that's for morons.
We created a system so ill conceived and disastrous that we have to work on it every single day, its all over the news and it constantly divides a god damn species into killing each other. Just think about that for a second. Think about a cluster fuck of a system that we tried to create but failed at so miserably it'll probably take a century or two to realize we fucked up.
You can derive this as politics, capitalism, bureaucracy, etc, etc they're all interconnected.
That's the human legacy. We're going to be the only species in the world that has a shot of wiping ourselves out.
Bin Laden's dead so congrats America you stopped a terrorist.
Or you could have funded construction in the 80's to rebuild Afghanistan and turn it into a normal place after they fought the soviets for you and those terrorists might be your good friends.
So you tell me, where did we go wrong? Did we not go wrong? Why not?