Pitfalls of the End Game

When was the last time you thought that you were going to change the world? When was the last time that you concisely questioned each and every day to day action that you blindly subject yourself to? 

Our lives are becoming more and more delineated. As we crawl, no not run, crawl, into the future, is anyone ready to ask the question of how new technology today is radically changing tomorrow? Cell phones and the internet have fostered new avenues of communication and inteconnectiveness, but at the same time both have vastly debilitating many archaic human characteristics. People are no longer living simply in the present, rather they are jumping between different virtual realities, in and out of the real and the virtual. Soon, our generation is going to be so numb to basic human emotions that natural selection will be weeded out. Rather, certain influential humans are going to mold the world society and force humans to conform. This has been the fear of many creative people throughout history, unfortunately I think that the time is upon us when it may in fact be true. 

If we do not stop to analyze and understand how certain facets of our life are changing us, then mankind is already a slave to technology. Just as it was in the past, the future always appears to be a straight road ahead, but in actuality it is not a road but a river. It is going to meander and follow a path of least resistance. Unfortunately, the path of least resistance sometimes leads to a waterfall that has no expected outcome.

Is it really that difficult to imagine a future devoid of technology? I mean we made it, we can just as easily get rid of it. While that is not plausible, it is helpful when you want to think of a new future. Think of new avenues that do not exist that will improve our likelihood of survival, because in the end thats all any species hopes to do. The basis of life is the will to survive. 

Now, it may be appropriate to ask yourself if you do in fact hope to change the world. Do you really want to be famous, to be immortal and buried in history? Personally, I believe that there is little glamour in fame. Who really cares if other humans like you? Yes you have power, but aren't lives best moments when you are utterly powerless? You can't control love, conception, friendship. And even if you could, would not that be the saddest day of your life?

Selflessness or selfishness? It's one or the other, your either here for them or your here for you. Which one is it going to be? Let's hope that it is a little of both, because what's best for you should be what's best for humanity.