Today's Savior?

Is there anyone who can unify us all? Anyone who can find a common understanding and lead us into an advanced age of science and reason where people just get it? Thirty years ago everyone thought we would be flying around in cars living in cities in the sky like the Jetsons. But here we are oogling over the iphone and wondering when the next hybrid is coming out. Instead of making great leaps and bounds for humanity we are stuck in a spin cycle of keeping the massess uneducated and puttylike while those with degrees and some insight about things benefit only themselves and their kin.

Are we too fragmented in our beliefs, customs, languages, etc to agree on anything? One thing I think we all can agree on, is that humanity should persevere. We should advance. Reverting back to the stone ages is not where we should be. You don't have to be college educated to understand this.

When you look at the fossil records and compare how long we have been on earth to other species like the crocodile, we're just babies. Some variants of species have been around more than hundreds of millions of years. In fact, we are only now understanding how birds evolved. What gets me is that we're so arrogant that we think the earth was created for us. To ensure that we aren't just renting this place and that we are going to live here a while, we need to start doing something. We constantly fight with eachother and destroy everything without thinking how humanity as a whole will change millenia from now. Global warming may just be a tiny pen mark on earth's timeline of events, but not for our timeline. We haven't been here long enough to withstand major climate change. Yes, we might have made it through a few ice ages, but how can we even begin to understand such things when our leadership doesn't embrace science.

I read about a hypothesis where the human race will evolve into two races...the beautiful tall people who live till they are 120 and the short fat troll people who die in their 30s. With how our society is going now, I kind of agree. Races will go away and we will all blend into eachother, but we will start to better selectively breed and the middle class will probably go away leaving even more of the haves and have-nots. If you have ever seen the movie GATACA or The Island, then you probably have a clue why these thoughts come to mind. I'm actually all for giving our future generations better genes. We all are I'm sure. Who wouldn't want their children to live long happy lives free from disease.

Another thing that I think will happen is that those who don't embrace science will end up living lives like sheep, not thinking about what they are doing and just living. Many religions promote this. We are the flock are we not? I don't want to say that science should be a religion, but we have advanced enough to not depend on creation tales and fancy stories to explain how we got here. Stop using religions as a crutch to understand why you are here. Instead, recognize that we are here to better humanity and that all religions agree on this. Stop fighting about silly things. Religions helped us get to where we are today. They provided common foundations for today's society. Why can't we recognize this and move on?

Those who get it, will try to do what they can to advance the human race. Going back to evolution for a minute...everyone is so upset about these multi drug resistant staph aureous (MRSA) infections that have been popping up here and there. I'd hate to say it, but the science community has been expecting this for over a decade now. The news is scaring people saying that there is no treatment for it and you can die from it, so schoools are deep cleaning and disinfecting everything. The problem is, that we have been disinfecting things for so long, taking antibiotics for colds caused by viruses (not bacteria for which an antibiotic would work for) and washing hands with antibacterial soap, that we're hurting ourselves. How are we hurting ourselves by killing bacteria you ask? The bacteria we are trying to destroy by taking all of these measures has a natural ability to mutate so that every once in a while it's little progeny will be able to live in a new environment. What we are doing is providing that sterile evironment for the bacteria to adapt too. Once some of the bacteria "evolve", and it already has started as we saw with some cases of MRSA, there will be other bacteria that follow suit. Humans don't evolve as fast as bacteria. I don't know if it is too late, but please stop taking antibiotics for colds and just use regular soap and warm water.

This concept of media manipulation, scaring the public about MSRA and dumming down the science for the people, reminds me of something. I would love to get on a jury, but as soon as they ask me questions and find out what I do, they immediately dismiss me. It seems that your "peers" are people who have no idea about anything. Lawyers seem to want the dumbest people or perhaps the most easily influenced. The media treats us like the lawyers do, they want to influence us, but they have no interest in benefiting the public, they only want something from you...watch these commercials. They tease you and play with you and even scare you so that you will keep watching and in between watch the commercials that pay the network. I love Tivo by the way.

So, where am I going with all of this? Well, I wish there was someone who was educated in the sciences and able to influence people in the right direction to care about humanity for the sake of humanity and not for "their people" (family, race, religion, language, culture, sports team, city, country). Bacteria don't care who you are. To them you are their host and they'll just throw you away after they have used up all the resources (you) and moved on. Anyone read history books anymore? Plague people.

Whoever this savior is, I hope that they can convince people to not be scared of science. Don't be an idiot. Be enlightened. Care about humanity. Make the world a better place for everyone. Don't just say "Fuck it, I don't care. I'm going to enjoy my ride here and not care about anyone but myself." The world is the smallest it's ever been. We all affect eachother and it seems like the people who don't get it will continue having more and more children who will believe in the same things that their parents did and will continue living lives of sheep. Don't be a sheep.