I kind of have a problem with celebrating that the world is better than before! I know (because I role my eyes on me when I say this argument loud or even to myself) that it might be exaggerating and/or being too idealistic thinking this way, but then again, why? So, away from my monologue I go back to my thought, that if we as humans are evolving and learning from our past, and we see it inevitable that we do, why celebrate the inevitable? We know the value of science and education and therefor we are trying to get red of illiteracy (21. Century and still there!). Seriously? Two huge world wars with tens of millions of people, and we’re celebrating that we’re having the less amount of wars in the history of humanity! Seriously? We’re not burning witches anymore, many (not all) countries acknowledge that homosexuality is not a disease and according to their laws it’s not a crime to be punished for (I stress that this is in the laws and not in the societies and minds of all people of these countries). Should I go on? We claim to be the most intelligent species on this planet (which we are destroying, unlike all other less intelligent species) and we have huge advancements of science and technologies and lots (most?) of us reset themselves to their cave-man mentality when it comes to tripe, family, nation, beliefs, superstitious thoughts, ideologies, etc.! Seriously?
Now, I don’t want to say that I only see an awful world and a can-be-better-world, but not an already better world, but as I said in the beginning, I see that a lot of things in this “better world” are in the natural course of human development/evolution and they don’t deserve to be celebrated. Period. Am I being hard on us? I don’t think so! As I mentioned in some examples, we’re still doing lots of crazy dumb stuff like our ancestors. Some crazy mentalities and behaviours even did some back from the dead.
And if I am being to idealistic in this way of thinking, then be it. If I am to aim, I want to aim high.
I kind of have a problem with celebrating that the world is better than before! I know (because I role my eyes on me when I say this argument loud or even to myself) that it might be exaggerating and/or being too idealistic thinking this way, but then again, why? So, away from my monologue I go back to my thought, that if we as humans are evolving and learning from our past, and we see it inevitable that we do, why celebrate the inevitable? We know the value of science and education and therefor we are trying to get red of illiteracy (21. Century and still there!). Seriously? Two huge world wars with tens of millions of people, and we’re celebrating that we’re having the less amount of wars in the history of humanity! Seriously? We’re not burning witches anymore, many (not all) countries acknowledge that homosexuality is not a disease and according to their laws it’s not a crime to be punished for (I stress that this is in the laws and not in the societies and minds of all people of these countries). Should I go on? We claim to be the most intelligent species on this planet (which we are destroying, unlike all other less intelligent species) and we have huge advancements of science and technologies and lots (most?) of us reset themselves to their cave-man mentality when it comes to tripe, family, nation, beliefs, superstitious thoughts, ideologies, etc.! Seriously?
Now, I don’t want to say that I only see an awful world and a can-be-better-world, but not an already better world, but as I said in the beginning, I see that a lot of things in this “better world” are in the natural course of human development/evolution and they don’t deserve to be celebrated. Period. Am I being hard on us? I don’t think so! As I mentioned in some examples, we’re still doing lots of crazy dumb stuff like our ancestors. Some crazy mentalities and behaviours even did some back from the dead.
And if I am being to idealistic in this way of thinking, then be it. If I am to aim, I want to aim high.
Or what do you think? :)