It’s
Time We Saved the World
Have you seen the headlines lately? "Terrorist Plot Another 9/11"."Russia
Invades Ukraine". "Mayor Smokes Crack". "Woman Kidnaps
Baby". "Police Chase Armed Robbery Suspects". "Residents
Protests New Walmart Construction". "Teacher Has Affair With
Student". These are just a few; you undoubtedly have seen more or less
scandalous headlines in the news in recent times. It doesn’t matter the scandal
or the severity of them, they all have a common core. But doesn’t it seem as
though the stories are getting more and more treacherous by the day? Things
seemingly inconceivable just a short time ago are being conceived faster and
faster daily. As a result, society's collective shock waves are nearly immeasurable
on any social Richter scale anymore.
We are nearly immune
to surprise now. We as a society, a world even, are so inundated with the
tragedies of the day that we've come to expect the next new scandal to be on
the turn. We can wake up with the world on fire and our responses would be more
"I knew this was about to happen", than it would be "how did
this happen?" What we have collectively is merely a lukewarm reaction at
best to malady.
Any collective gasp we exhale is just the tepid reaction
we've established as ritual. It stems directly from our capacities of feeling
powerless, coupled with our own personal tragedies we deal with daily.
Think about your response when you hear of something bad
happening. What is it that tears at your heartstrings the most, but that empty,
powerless feeling of acceptance- and secretly comforting in the given example
that yours is not the only misery? "This is what this world has come
to" is what we think, mostly. It’s as though there exists no answers, and our
only option is to hide, to scamper our way out of laying in the next tragedy’s
wake. What we effectively establish in our rituals are the stalls before the
next storms.
But have you ever thought of possibly the cause, no the cure
to all these nightmarish headlines? Have you ever considered how we as a
society could clip the madness at its roots?
What if I told you there's an answer to the madness, and, no,
it has nothing to do with any divine intervention? What if I told you that we
as humans, bestowed with magnificence and intelligence, can solve any issue of
the day that impacts society adversely- by preventing it from happening in the
first place? And, what if I told you
that it’s our duty to solve them so as to not generationally compound problems
for future generations?
It’s true, there's a
fix that offers the world a universal opportunity for growth, without us being
constantly behind the 8-ball of tragedy. And it’s our duty as civilized,
progressive people to pursue them; we cannot continue to claim intelligence,
and continue to pass societal ills onto future generations to deal with, too.
What it requires is a sea-change in our individual outlooks
on life in general. It requires a paradigm shift towards a willful determination
to take action on the front end, before tragedy strikes. It requires a
proactive movement, implemented individually to manifest a collective change.
It requires establishing the awareness that there’s an alternative to the
madness. To understand the fix to the world's problems we need look no further
than within ourselves, individually. We can fix the world's problems by first
examining, then correcting our own, personal, contributions to them. We can
understand why the world seems a ticking bomb of explosive scandal by
understanding that our individual lives to some degree are microcosms of the
grander world around us. The negative and adverse consequences we create in our
individual pools have rippling effects which transcend the grander world around
us. The reverse is true about the grander world's ripple effects reverberating
back to us to create within us the immunity to, and the expectations of
calamity. It’s a cycle of despair production- producing cycles of despairing
returns.
Whether we directly, indirectly, intentionally, or
unintentionally do so, we all contribute to the pool of tragedy we see daily.
How so? Think about
the seeds of hate, despair, ineffectualness, powerlessness, desperation, worry,
hurt, complacency, jealousness, and etc. that we sow daily. Think about our
conversations with others we indulge in, and the attitudes about the grander
world we reflect. If we aren’t constantly sparking the topic towards
construction, then those destructive ideals we prevail are all our individual
contributions, the seeds we’ve sown- and they sprout, bearing fruit quickly.
Those contributions
have a quantitative value that collects upon and empowers the psyches of a
minority few; to just enough people for them to manifest our worst nightmares
onto the populous' stage.
To put an end to it all we need to understand that all
calamities have a common core and can be placed into one of two categories of
senselessness. Think of it as war; it’s a battle we're fighting and desperately
losing. Well, did you know all wars are a result of at least one of two senseless
factors: Either a subjective challenged another subjective, or a subjective
challenged an objective? Never will two or more objectives clash, for theirs’
are the routes of
establishing win-win platforms. And essentially that’s what we as a society, a
world even, hope to establish for improving the quality of livelihoods:
universal win-win platforms.
Is
any of this registering so far? Would you like to know more of how we can
address the problems of the world today, to prevent our grandchildren from
being born onto a planet of destruction? Well, you’re already on the right path
towards that awareness. Allow what I’ve said here so far to be thoroughly
considered by you. Does it make sense, should be the foremost question you ask
yourself. If this is a topic open to your consideration, stay tuned here.
Creating the awareness of a possible fix is only the beginning. Future discussions will explore solving
directly the problems which blare at us from headlines all over the world.
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