just a quick one
-first friday in ages
-when i was walking home i found it pretty strange
i know this only happens to me, when i look around and see the human world around me as if i wasn't a human myself
and it's really strange how the world works, like how things are built and placed to look nice but look ugly, how humans fly around in huge blocks of metal (it's really strange seeing the person inside the car, usually when i see a car i only see the car, not the person in it (which is why people treat strangers in other cars (road rage), and on the internet differently, because you don't see the person themself, which justifies nothing but that's just humanity for you)), how people stand around talking without any distinct purpose, how detached and isolated the individual is made in this social construct, how even though they are social creatures, the majority of humans tend to not to help or just be nice to strangers, how strange and pointless it is to own a four-legged creature as a "pet", how people hate travelling to and from work every day, yet at the same time move around just for the sake of moving around, and being "fit", calling it "exercise".
How some humans have so much money that they do not know what to do with it, and how others are struggling to pay the weekly rent.
and other things
then i thought (yeah i know, dont worry i normally dont think like this) of how uncoordinated and inefficient society is, and how the world should embrace globalisation and become one united nation. There could be states in this nation, which could be called "countries" or something like that. but if the world was one place, it would be so much easier for countries to send aid to eachother, and there could be so much more economic specialisation and efficiency by utilising the land of a country for what it is most suited for. globalisation would just make everything work better.
but the reason this isn't possible is because humans will want to retain their "culture" which gives them a weak sense of "identity", even though it's the different cultures and identities which cause the problems of xenophobia, with discrimination and ignorance about different kind of humans.
i guess it's just that human's are unable to think bigger than themselves. that is why communism doesn't work. that is why everything is based on self-interest, even though it has so many problems. that is why there are so many problems (hunger, not building enough solar panels) which can be easily solved with the reallocation of resources, just if someone could organise it. every problem in the world could be easily solved if society was just coordinated.
you could compare it to a team of some of the most talented people in the world. but they aren't good. they are a terrible team, because there is no coordination or teamwork.
maybe some day the savior will come. he/she will be the ultimate leader who will say something like "hang on everyone, why can't we just work together"
and then there will be a term called the global efficiency of resources
3 comments:
For someone to be rich, someone has to be poor.
In every sense of the word, and with every type of "possession"
It's a balance, and will always stay like that, so long as people are people.
=S Sucks, doesn't it?
i spend a lot of society and culture trying to decide if globalisation is good or bad.
but brendan, you see, just accepting it that way only furthers the divide, it is a way for people who are not at the bottom to simply dismiss these things as inevitable and a sad fact of life.
you can see that phrase in two ways, in the same way you see water in a cup. either it is inevitable that there will be poor people and no one should try, or, you can try your best to lift the bottom line, which shouldn't be hard (but is). there will still be a "rich" and a "poor", but at least "poor" people won't be living without food, water, clothes, shelter, and so on. it is NOT inevitable, do not ever think of anything as inevitable, nothing is written, it is only written when people resign themselves to fate and stop fighting.
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