I am sure that we all think we are living in the most special of times as to the history of our species and that we are, in the most present of time, the tip of the sword of human life. We are the latest and most knowledgeable of the evolution of human existence and therefore we are the best of what humanity has to offer to date. It is difficult to argue with the concept that intelligence, knowledge, progress and modernization have refined and honed our species to it's greatest capabilities yet. However, an inverse argument can be made. For all the enlightenment most of us share, we still seem to be talking right past each other, even when we have the same ultimate goals. Instead of educating each other with the premise that we can be a better society we instead debase each other and resort to brutish and cruel responses out of being ignorant to having a clear and hopeful perspective. Our species has come to have the good and the bad within us and we struggle at times with separating the two into distinct and recognizable opposing traits. Some see aggressive thoughts and actions as positive when the goal is to force thought and action upon others. Not so much a "coming together of the minds", as "I demand" that all of us do a thing. Alternatively, some see logic as the foundation for explanation and agreement, which allows for free will choice of all of us to do something not through force. How we get to "doing a thing" is important because we all decide together and it is in a real sense all of us who are deciding. Our civilization is on the brink of just such a breakthrough, but only when each human being is regarded as greater than the ideas and concepts that are just thoughts. When we realize that our species is still just in it's infancy of mature thought and action, we will then have the wherewithall to try just a little bit harder to make the next era of human development more clearly desirable and the best of what human existence will be.
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