Humans, a Perspective pt. 2

How do I think the ways in which humans communicate with and think about one another serve us in the 21st century?

There is a wealth of information being shared over the internet. There are millions of minds connecting in a way and at a rate like never before. Therefore we must learn the difference between informing and fear mongering. There are those of us who share information and knowledge that they've acquired, which can help others live a more fulfilling, balanced life. And then there are those who use their knowledge/information to berate others. The fact is, one day each of us will die/transition (at least, physically). For most of us that live in Western civilization, we have greater freedom in choosing whether it will be a fast or slow death. We can take all the preventative measures in the world to prolong our lives: read books, avoid overly processed foods, alcohol, air pollution (smog, cigarettes), exercise and etc, but this only prolongs the inevitable. Now this by no means suggests that we should all run out to have a hamburger at the Heart Attack Grill and watch TV all day. However, we shouldn't go around thinking evil of one another and being full of distrust, projecting that on the whole of humanity simply because selfishness is the agenda of a select few (and compared to the BILLIONS inhabiting this planet, yes it is a select FEW).

Instead of fear mongering and tearing down, we need to inform yet be compassionate. Many focus on the evil of the government and corporations, the "beast" etc but we have to remember that these entities are comprised of PEOPLE and they are still connected to us. They represent our lowest nature. To paraphrase Mark Twain, who has the humanity to pray for Satan when Satan is being Satan??

Part of the problem with human thinking in the West is that we have gone so far into individuality that we forget how we are all connected (collectivism). Not only have we deluded ourselves into thinking that we are separate, almost exalted, from the rest of nature and the universe but from one another. This creates for us a prison in the mind. So the whore, the murderer, the addict, the "slave", the "beast" that one thinks is separate from them is actually a part of them and is reflecting back to them the lowest potential of humanity.

The point of this post is to encourage everyone to think and communicate with one another in a much more balanced way. Radical, extreme ways of thinking and communicating come from going unchecked for long periods of time, being allowed to so far down one's own rabbit hole until one is too afraid to come out.

The way I see it

Sometimes I think I have human existence figured out. And then something happens or someone introduces a different perspective that reminds me that I don't. The bottom line is, I know enough to know that I really don't know anything!

But what I would like to do is summarize my analysis of humanity, based upon my own experience up through this exact moment, for the purpose of determining how I will contribute to the human story.

The way I see it, the problem with humanity is that we don't even know who we are. We spend half of our lives attempting to define ourselves..Am I an animal? Am I an alien? Am I a "woman"? "man"? "black"? "white"? "homosexual"? "Muslim"? And then once we've finally figured out who we think we are (what we feel comfortable identifying with) then we spend the other portion of our lives attempting to build something, for a variety of reasons. And it's the case for many to spend their entire lives focusing solely on one aspect without ever achieving the other. Some do neither. And few of us achieve both. But nonetheless I think history, in summary, is the story of the human family defining (or re-defining itself/its environment) and building (discovering/re-discovering universal laws to create technology). Thus, history is the evolution of human thought; what humanity thinks about itself and its environment.

huMANS tend to think they are better or higher than all the other consciousness of nature, simply because it has free will (the beauty and tragedy of being human). Because humanity has free will, it has defined itself in a multitude of ways, often contradicting and conflicting within itself. Add to the equation that humans disagree on the ways & the reasons why to build, and one begins to understand why it is difficult to attain world peace.

The rhetorical question(s) I ask are why don't we just call ourselves human doings (?), and how is the current state of human thought serving us in the present world? Is it beneficial for humans to remain in this constant state of "define and build?" Is it beneficial for humanity to continue on down its path of narcissist thinking in relation with all the other consciousness on this planet?