Pssst....Did you hear?

I hear people say, "Things are just fine the way they are." Well, sure they are, that's all we know. It's good to be satisfied. It's comfortable to be around things I know and understand. But even nature changes things. Every thing changes.

That's how we got where these things are

The problem is that in a world where email takes seconds to go around the world, we expect change to happen now!

Even in our high tech universe where life has changed so drastically at an escalating speed over the past one hundred years, there is a learning curve and I don't think it has changed too much. We just hear about it more.

Could we destroy the world? Absolutely. Other species have died out, there's no reason to believe human beings couldn't find a way either. But I think it's unlikely. We'll make, we have made, grave errors, but they are still localized enough that the rest of the world can learn from them and eventually will learn something from them.

I'm less concerned about the technology and environmental hazards than our cultural trends.

The greed, impatience and intolerance of human beings rivals that of some of the most heinous animals on the planet. There is a we and them thinking that is devastating. It keeps us from doing more important things and becomes a handle for the true political manipulators to use to control us.

The last thing in the world some politicians want is to get rid of those things they use as part of their platform. All they have to do is profess to be for or against certain words that arise from ignorance and their chances soar. Thanks to these key words they get people to vote for things that are absolutely not in their best interests and the politicians know this. Hate and fear mongers sell votes.

I suppose even these things will eventually work themselves out over time, but it could be so much easier if people quit trying to control how others look and love and live and make a bigger effort to work together to improve life for everyone.

It takes a lot of time and money to pick out the differences in people; time and money that could be better spent focusing on our common needs.