Some year-end reflection…

 Over millennia, I think it is fair to say that humanity has become a “tangled weave” disaster.  So many situations can be traced back to some prior situations, that can then be traced back to even more prior situations, and on and on and on… the breadcrumbs journey of “It’s complicated.”  And it is.

But at the root of it all is what’s known as “the human condition.”  Yes, we, individually as well as collectively, are “patient zero” in all of humanity’s (greater scheme-of-things) problems. 

WHY ARE WE ALL PATIENT ZERO? 

Oh so many reasons: It starts with our birth hard-wiring; continues on with our upbringing (soft-wiring circumstances); gets further build on/destroyed with the benefit or lack of good/bad role modeling; enter the peer pressure years, when long-term adult personalities are beginning to gel; hormonal disruptions add more confusion; the bullying or empathy gene is “awakened”; lack of equality and equal opportunities is aggravating and frustrating; attraction to shallow values may become a siren’s (fuck it all) call; loss of control over negative emotions (there’s a whole hornet’s nest of those buggers [anger, fear, revenge, resentment, self-preservation, greed, disappointments, feelings of desperation, etc., etc., etc.]).  So yeah, like I said, the human condition has become quite complicated alright, and for (understandably) human reasons/explanations.

SO WHAT’S THE FIX?

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  And what we’re doing now is still not getting humanity any different results.  To the contrary, our ongoing behaviors are validating and perpetuating the “next generation” of expected (I think undesirable) results (see above); the perpetual and accelerating cycle of discord all of humanity is seemingly caught up in and can’t escape.

SO WHAT FIXES THOSE UNDESIRABLE RESULTS?

Oh so many things can help fix undesirable results: let’s just call them the antithesis of those negative human condition attributes I’ve mentioned above.  But other than on an individual basis, are such mass fixes even possible?

Q: Is humanity broken?

• If yes, why?  

• And is it “fixable?”

• If no, why not?  

• And by what standards would that conclusion be judged?

Make your case(s).

(by PrimalSoup)