Greetings good citizen, I'm 'overdue' to run a piece about a topic that perplexes me mightily. It puzzles me so much it is the driving force behind my belief our presence here on this dustball in the sky is representative of not one but dozens of different planets.
Left unknown is whether or not we're POW's or have just been branded as criminals by an uncaring Galactic government.
What am I babbling about? United we stand but, quite obviously, united we're not!
While it's tempting to consider the idea we are part of a bold, inter-galactic social experiment...I'd have to opine either the experiment was deemed a failure or what we have today is what happens when you abandon the whole business as a bad idea and leave the mess you made behind.
Part of it works. We CAN and have in the past made 'common cause' with our fellow travelers on countless occasions but, and the emphasis appears to be the best outcome manageable is only a 'temporary truce'.
Here in the 'melting pot' we are only slowing, grudgingly 'homogenizing'.
While it is pleasant to speculate that we humans are all part of a 'cooperative venture' between worlds, it is far more likely we share a 'common enemy', which is how we came to find ourselves on a planet dominated by humans.
The fact that no other humans have come to find/rescue us tells us something about the outcome of that 'joint venture'.
The fact that all the humans on this planet are very war-like reveals yet another piece of the puzzle.
Slowly, progress is being made on mastering the many tongues we speak...yet we all 'read and write', which tells us something else and MOST languages have common words, revealing yet another 'commonality'.
I have laid it out in earlier essays, what we see in our relationships here mirrors the situation on our respective planets of origin.
The [widespread] lack of cooperation and the prevalence of 'top down' power structures devils our entire species. Perhaps the most vexing and persistent of character flaws dividing the human race is their basic 'untrustworthiness'.
While all life is 'opportunist', our species has elevated this trait to an Art!
When we're not complaining about how 'unfair' life is, we're busy trying to get over on whoever we can, every chance we get!
Which is to point out that while ALL life is 'opportunistic', no other species we know of preys upon other members of their species like humans do!
Yesterday I connected the dots between the 'authority worshiping conservative' and the 'useful idiots' so critical to those who would exploit us. So I'm not suffering from schizophrenia when I point to the 'hooray for me and to hell with everyone else' crew (just shy of a crowd) that so plainly divides the 'self-made' from the 'wannabes'.
And I am again compelled to point out that not everyone suffers from 'me first' syndrome, a phenomenon we now associate with psychopaths.
I know I've lost a good percentage of you, you don't have time to 'chase chimera'...which is how they get away with it...because you aren't 'on guard'.
That and you're more than just a little stupid. [If you can't own that then there's no hope, hell, even I admit to being dumb sometimes...and some of you would call what I do here proof of my stupidity but if not me, who?
It's the risk a leader willingly accepts. So yeah, I paint a bullseye on my back so I can reach out to those of you who suffer in silence, wondering why NO ONE is trying to change things, make them better because WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, AREN'T WE?
Not to be a total fool, I tip my hat to you, my reader because opening your mind to what you find here marks you as the posessor of dangerous knowledge. You now know you aren't alone in your quest for Justice!
Same as it's always been, good citizen, two at a time. Together the two of us will conquer the world!
But I can't do it without you and you can't do it without yours...thus are we 'united'.
Backtracking somewhat I believe we can put the 'if only we had an alien enemy, that would unite us!' myth to rest. I appears we have met that alien enemy and we lost.
So much for that idea...
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: Today is less 'strident' than normal because one risks being labeled as 'shrill' if you constantly scream. Today might be a more mellow tone AND a decidedly more 'off the beaten path' approach but it is certainly more 'fun' to explore possibilities while pointing out social woes and the need to unite against those who would exploit us because they can...
Left unknown is whether or not we're POW's or have just been branded as criminals by an uncaring Galactic government.
What am I babbling about? United we stand but, quite obviously, united we're not!
While it's tempting to consider the idea we are part of a bold, inter-galactic social experiment...I'd have to opine either the experiment was deemed a failure or what we have today is what happens when you abandon the whole business as a bad idea and leave the mess you made behind.
Part of it works. We CAN and have in the past made 'common cause' with our fellow travelers on countless occasions but, and the emphasis appears to be the best outcome manageable is only a 'temporary truce'.
Here in the 'melting pot' we are only slowing, grudgingly 'homogenizing'.
While it is pleasant to speculate that we humans are all part of a 'cooperative venture' between worlds, it is far more likely we share a 'common enemy', which is how we came to find ourselves on a planet dominated by humans.
The fact that no other humans have come to find/rescue us tells us something about the outcome of that 'joint venture'.
The fact that all the humans on this planet are very war-like reveals yet another piece of the puzzle.
Slowly, progress is being made on mastering the many tongues we speak...yet we all 'read and write', which tells us something else and MOST languages have common words, revealing yet another 'commonality'.
I have laid it out in earlier essays, what we see in our relationships here mirrors the situation on our respective planets of origin.
The [widespread] lack of cooperation and the prevalence of 'top down' power structures devils our entire species. Perhaps the most vexing and persistent of character flaws dividing the human race is their basic 'untrustworthiness'.
While all life is 'opportunist', our species has elevated this trait to an Art!
When we're not complaining about how 'unfair' life is, we're busy trying to get over on whoever we can, every chance we get!
Which is to point out that while ALL life is 'opportunistic', no other species we know of preys upon other members of their species like humans do!
Yesterday I connected the dots between the 'authority worshiping conservative' and the 'useful idiots' so critical to those who would exploit us. So I'm not suffering from schizophrenia when I point to the 'hooray for me and to hell with everyone else' crew (just shy of a crowd) that so plainly divides the 'self-made' from the 'wannabes'.
And I am again compelled to point out that not everyone suffers from 'me first' syndrome, a phenomenon we now associate with psychopaths.
I know I've lost a good percentage of you, you don't have time to 'chase chimera'...which is how they get away with it...because you aren't 'on guard'.
That and you're more than just a little stupid. [If you can't own that then there's no hope, hell, even I admit to being dumb sometimes...and some of you would call what I do here proof of my stupidity but if not me, who?
It's the risk a leader willingly accepts. So yeah, I paint a bullseye on my back so I can reach out to those of you who suffer in silence, wondering why NO ONE is trying to change things, make them better because WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, AREN'T WE?
Not to be a total fool, I tip my hat to you, my reader because opening your mind to what you find here marks you as the posessor of dangerous knowledge. You now know you aren't alone in your quest for Justice!
Same as it's always been, good citizen, two at a time. Together the two of us will conquer the world!
But I can't do it without you and you can't do it without yours...thus are we 'united'.
Backtracking somewhat I believe we can put the 'if only we had an alien enemy, that would unite us!' myth to rest. I appears we have met that alien enemy and we lost.
So much for that idea...
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: Today is less 'strident' than normal because one risks being labeled as 'shrill' if you constantly scream. Today might be a more mellow tone AND a decidedly more 'off the beaten path' approach but it is certainly more 'fun' to explore possibilities while pointing out social woes and the need to unite against those who would exploit us because they can...
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