Nothing good happens behind a force field.
Lately I have had a problem keeping my mouth shut. I feel like I have been freed from sixteen years of living in a box. I finally broke free and now I just can't shut up.
It is ok though. I am not out to hurt anybody. I definitely don't want to lose friends. I just want to make people think. So much of what we are exposed to today is put out by people with an agenda. An agenda that lines their pockets an agenda that is there only to protect them from their own fear of change.
I am not sure if most people think about this, but I do. The world we live in could be a much different world. If change had not happened, we would not live in the world of technology that we have today. A dark world without medicine or electricity is just a small innovation from not existing. That is, if we insisted on living with things without any change. Change has brought us the world we have today.
The Dark Ages were called that for a reason. Not just because there was no electricity. It was dark because we forgot. The human race forgot all that the great empires had learned. They turned to roving bands of horse bound raiders terrorizing the land. For 600 years European civilization languished.
I am not an alarmist. While I am not a fool, I am very aware of the fact that we could go back there, I am more concerned about wanting our world to be as good as it can be. I am so pissed that I will not be here in a hundred years to see what we create.
So, the only thing to do is to push. Push out of the force field an make people move. Things are pretty good in our part of the world, but they could be better. We could have real understanding. We could have clean water, clean air...peace.
Nothing comes easy, but saying that everything is good inside this box is not the way to go. Facing the things that make us uncomfortable; looking at our neighbors and asking ourselves how we can make their lives better. Not being an asshole.
I am not going to try to convince you of anything. I want you to ask questions. Stop and listen to what people are saying. Ask more questions. Change the channel and contemplate what other people are saying. You won't agree with most of it, but just the process of asking will move the world forward. Leave this box. It is safe, but it is not as good as it could be.
