The Reasonable Solution

Oh poor malnourished blog, how I've neglected you.  Soon I'll have some new material for you to devour and we'll both be happy again.

The last 24 hours have revealed... not a whole lot actually.  I'm not even talking about my personal life [obviously] but I mean mentally.  I've been somewhat on a mental vacation since summer started.  Semi-preoccupied with common everyday routines and monotony.  But this is the week for writing, so that's exactly what I intend to do.  Perhaps even now!

Okay, lets discuss... the reason why I personally do not believe that everlasting peace will grace this Earth.

The main reasoning behind this idea that I possess quite ardently, is this:

There are too many people, with too many opinions.

Please don't get the wrong impression, and think that I believe it is a bad thing [although if it's contributing in large part, to the lack of peace in the world, I cannot suppose it is that great].

Here is why it is a problem.  We have six billion [nearing seven billion] human inhabitants of this world.  Nearly.  Seven.  Billion.

Okay so let's use a simple analogy to understand why this number makes it near impossible for us all to get along.

Suppose, for a moment, that our personalities were displayed as snowflakes.  Singularly, you can see how different and unique they are from one another.  If you could pick them up and sort them (without damaging them as to their appearance) you'd be likely to find some that look more jagged, and some with softer edges, while some would be intricate and others would be dull.  Although no two are exactly the same, many can be categorized as "somewhat similar".  These groups, lets say, are organized on the majority structure of the snowflake, so sure, it might have some soft edges, but it's mostly jagged so it's placed in that category.  So even though we have personalities that are very similar they're not exactly the same and that is due to how they came to exist, up unto that moment.

So we have vastly different personalities, but not too different or none of us would get along at all.  We can't always agree on everything [as I've discussed in the previous entry, about subjective realities] so we are blessed and condemned with diversity.

Considering the similarities and differences, there is a seemingly infinite amount of disagreements that could arise on all sorts of topics.  The product of world peace would come from world unity.  The only way I see that happening, is if we gather up all our little snowflakes and pack them together.  Make us into a snowball.  We cannot progress until we have a solid foundation on which to build, and without that we're just flakes of snow on the ground.

I find it hard for us to find that unifying aspect that places our differences aside and would give us that universal realization, but I think the answer lies somewhere in our race.  We are human beings.  Each and every one of us is part of the human race, and we should be acting as a whole, not fighting against each other.  Imagine the possibilities if only we could transcend our self-centered lives and ways.  We fall so easily into the comfortable everyday habits that relegate this extremely important task to the back of our minds.  Perhaps it lies not even there.

Do you not see the value in such a worldwide preoccupation?  I do.

So I've given the unifying aspect a great deal of thought, as you might've guessed.  There are only a few things that will metaphorically slap us in the face and make us realize that we are as one, and should be acting that way.

One of such circumstances would find our countries regrettably descending into nuclear war, where mostly everyone is destroyed.  Those who survive will be few in numbers but it is likely that they will band together to survive [hopefully!].

The second instance would occur if there were some worldwide catastrophe that required the efforts of every nation to avoid the destruction of all intelligent life on our planet.  In such an instance, however, I fear that as generations grow from this almost-catastrophic event they would once again plunge into division.

The last circumstance that I could see potentially unifying us is the discovery of intelligent life in a race besides that of our own, elsewhere.  We would then, no longer need to specify what nationality or heritage, because it would all dissolve away in the face of the question "Are you human or otherwise?"

I'm not certain as to whether I'll live to see the day when we finally unite as one, but I wholeheartedly hope that I do.

Until then,

I'm off.