Monday, March 4, 2013

Research is an extension of our curiosity (#1494)

Wanting to know things has been a dominating feature of our species as testified by our earliest recorded history. Even the ability to write and read writing is a testimony in itself that we were able to create a language to understand each other. Creating an alphabet in order to build words from our thoughts is borne from our curiosity to know things. That research in today's world is an extension of our continuing curiosity is unchallenged by any logical proof. So onward with our journey to discover new and exciting realities. That we would be considering the idea of slowing and stopping research of today's and tomorrow's challenges is to me unthinkable. Our society has become an interlinked community of humans who have placed our future destiny into the hands of all of us through our ideals of governance and economy. To that end we need to place ourselves into a position of learning how to best manage our path forward. We can only do that by staying ahead of our current time and place through our imaginings and our imaginings need to be tested for utility. Research does that and it also is a logical process extension of our need to know. I bring this up since there are those in power in our society who wish to destroy our community of peoples in favor of a survival of the fittest reality. Apparently they think a thinning of the herd approach to humanity is more in line with nature than accepting our reality as it is and expanding it's opportunities. Killing off research is just one of their goals. We must counter with blocking their brutish and dastardly ulterior motives with an open defense of standing up to them and thwarting their attempts to kill off the very nature of curiosity we are ingrained with.

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