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.