Stream of consciousness
Humanity is random in nature. Every event, every cause, every effect, is a series of random interactions of the human beings that happen to be in the situation shaping them and in turn being shaping the situation by their presence.
Good luck wrapping your head around that.
By nature, human beings are lazy creatures. Sure you have the driven control maniacs that think they know what they want and think they are in control of getting it (and they are delusional) and even they are bound by the communal actions of our lazy nature. Human creativity, tool making, development, the whole gambit, is an outcome of our inherent laziness. We don’t want to spend as much time working, so we invent. We invent faster, safer, more economical ways to cut our workload down. Ironically, this is called productivity. We produce in order to be lazy. Kind of counter-intuitive in most ways, but true for all of us, even the control freaks that think they are in the driver’s seat of their life. They can’t help but be driven by their own overblown sense of laziness and be constrained by the total aggregate of pure lazy of their fellow human beings.
Every one of us goes with the flow. We are cause and effect driven creatures, and what we call a life is nothing more than a continual series of reactions to a chain of situations. We react. That is all we do. That is all we can do.
Being proactive, truly proactive, is what makes God god.
As human beings we are constrained to the event. Whatever that event may be. And we cannot escape.
The trick, I think, is to enjoy the event. That event is unique in its own occurrence and will not happen again. Escaping the mediocrity of the event enough to experience it is what happiness is. Escaping the chain of events in a human way. Understanding that the chain of events are almost random inputs into the total equation of event causality is what makes us self aware. How we react to those situations is what defines us a people.
Atoms are constrained by the causal interactions that they have with each other, as do galaxies in our universe, so why do people think they are above that?
Every one of us is in our place. And we shape history by being in that place. I doubt Churchill and Roosevelt expected World War II and their places in it. They merely reacted to where they ended up and the situation that faced them. Same goes for every politician, every company, every family, every country. Every structure is confined by the interactions of events. Companies and Governments can’t be in control of anything, not because they don’t try, but because they are confined by causality.
Choices can be made. But choices are constrained by the causality around them. Think of causality as a balloon, and the choice as a marble in motion. The marble can stretch the balloon, but the farther it stretches the more force is needed, otherwise the choice is forced to fail… it bounces back. Human interactions provide force to choices in a causal environment. And that is how things like Hitler and genocide and terrorism and governments happen. Poor choices coincide and movement is changed into momentum.
How do we stretch the confining causality of our world when choices greater than the limiting environment have to be made?
How do we educate a world that is too human to stand up and look at the future? War, terrorism, violence have no positive outcomes. War will not stop hunger. Terrorism will not change tomorrow for the better. Violence will not make our lives better. Our environment is flawed. The lack of realization of the causal constraints is killing us.
Literally killing us.
We have to look up. We have to escape the short time spans of our personal existences. We have to escape our limits. How do we do that?
A unified threat, short term and long term. Something to bind humanity together.
A glimmer of it happened once 40 years ago. Two great nations of the world started to race against each other to achieve a goal of space exploration. JFK called for a nation to rise up and reach for a seemingly impossible goal. It can happen again and involve every person on this planet.
I think one person has to do it. Stretch that bubble of causality to the point that it breaks. One person to bind humanity in a greater goal. But the time has to be right. Humankind is almost ready. Almost.
On the cusp.
