ok, so recently i've decided to help the world, which means i'm going to sell myself. which might be the one thing i hate most in the entire world. (all my friends, please look the other way).
so i believe what separates me is my intellect and my compassion.
anyways, here is one example of my intellect that hopefully will entice everyone to pay attention to me. (my friends have already heard this one. )
so in an astronomy class that I took at cu (black holes) we saw this 2-d model of the universe, over a time span of millions of years, compressed into a span of 5 seconds. it evolved the way you would expect it to with stars being loosely spread out initially, until the theory of relativity kicked in and the stars bunched together like limbs on a tree. anyways, a couple of months after that, i was playing cards with my brother, and was drinking a glass of water, when i noticed that the condensation on the glass behaved the same as the universe. it was really cool to think that something as large as the universe (which i believe is the only thing to fall under the category "largest") and something as small as a glass of water behaved similarly, albeit on different scales of space and time.
ok
the next point i wanted to make is a point about society. (this will probably sound really cookie-cutter)
Society is stuck. America seems indifferent. Social change, if it has occurred, has not happened fast enough compared to the rate at which we are consuming. (sidenote-if you have read any part of hot, flat, and crowded and have any neurons firing in your brain at all, it's scary to see how much trouble the earth is in.)
Anyways, so what the earth needs is the pebble that starts the rockslide. Basically, i want to be that pebble. The sooner we bite the bullet, the sooner we can start instilling actual hope for people everywhere. There needs to be a paradigm shift. And the best part is that the paradigm shift that takes place is the shift where we learn that by helping others, we inherently help ourselves. That is about as awesome as it gets. Please get excited. And don't hate.
Society is not cohesive enough to act as a rockslide to your pebble, else Ghandi probably would have achieved that already. Or the Dalai Lama. Or the pope. Society needs a gunshot to the face, and that's an order on the global crisis scale.
ReplyDeleteyea i saw something today that was like righteous anger works much more effectively than ____(i forget what it was, but it was probably something like good values/ideals) anyways, i agree kind of. the middle of the roader inside of me says you cant make absolutes.(society is not cohesive enough-although "enough" makes it a conditional statement.)
ReplyDeleteanyways i believe that we can't afford to think negatively, unless its proactive.