A Whole New World

Language barriers are able to be broken, technology has increased our ability to communicate with each other tenfold, in some countries you aren’t allowed free speech but that’s changed pretty drastically during this/last century, arts, literature, barriers are there to be broken for a reason, imagine a world without angst for the artists, with no creativity how would we survive? From the challenges faced by the modern man to the neanderthal, without the challenge of obtaining more food after stripping all the leaves off the trees, how would we have ever taken to the ground? Without these abrasions to mans’ survival, would he really be alive at all?
Would you prefer to be a prehistoric crayfish at the bottom of the sea, never evolving, perfectly content nestled in the sand under leagues of darkness, never disturbed in the slightest, never needing to rise to the most minor provocation? Is that your definition of perfection? I don’t think humans will ever be perfect, we are far too intelligent to reach an evolutionary standstill like the noble crayfish. It will take millioms of years of evolution for human animosity as we know it to possibly degrigate.
Do you really think that a world with peace can exist without something to fight for? Peace has to be achieved, and kept in balance, any other world without this concept has only stillness. Stillness, but not peace, which has to be obtained. War has always been around and I suspect it will be for a very long time, but don’t think of the agony caused and the lives lost, think of the joy that is to come from our learnig from our mistakes, our battles waged, our wagers lost, our tragedys and our lives. This is the way things are balanced, we need to have patience for our friends, our brothers, our enemies, and most importantly, for ourselves. War is necessary. War brings peace. Without these two sides to the same coin, we would have nothingness, no conflict, no turning gears in the machine of the mind, and no ability to appreciate and comprehend what we really are and the truth of this world for ourselves, so that we will be able to live on, and see these things.

If humans lacked our ability to form judgement, where would we be now? Without out ability to think and judge priciples of logic, physics, science, art, math, and human morality, how would we survive? These are the very things that make us human, we wouldn’t even be without them. You wish to indo the things that make the world turn, if there was never any understanding to be reached, never any concept or philosophy to be questioned, why would man even bother to reach a concensus where meaning can be interpreted? These are the gifts of life, not the curses of being alive.
Without critique, sentiment, objections, perspective, defiance, what would we be? These are the thing that define us. This self destructive thinking is the only thing holding humans back! Even in a suicidal fervor there is something to be learned, like a rose in concrete. With the capacity for human intelligence comes the ability to question our very being, and what do we do with it? Wish every last one of us dead in our infancy? Disregard the entirety of human achievement for rueful melancholic weeping of our own creation?
Humanity can do great things, of course some people will venture to the darkest corners of our minds, it’s just sometimes we need somone else to appear to pull us back through, throw us a rope back into the light and venture on willingly facing the challenges of being human, triumphantly returning from that darkest part of our own conscious being and holding the knowledge we gained down there in that darkness in our hands like a precious secret recovered from the mouth of a beast, and wielding it like a torch in the darkness and grim times that are sure to come, and sure to pass, garnering our experience and brandishing it as a sword to be used to fight future battles of the human will. We are the mediums, the shapers of this world, we are the ones who need to keep the balance as its inhabitants and heirs to our own fate. Perhaps balance is the key, to our own salvation, and our damnation, our hopes, our dreams, our world as a whole is ready to be navigated and shaped by our hand, not the already hopeless murmers and whispers of the dreary. There will be battles to be fought, some to be won, some to be lost, things to let go and become the past, and things to come to look forward to.
The scope of our existence is almost unimaginable, when you realize that we’re living an impossibility, unique amongst all of the living beings on our planet, unique in our solar system, the impossible suddenly becomes probable. There are still millions of possibilitys to be discovered, eons to be experienced, lessons to learn from and knowledge to be gained. This, our lives are only the beginning.