the point of it all.

you know, people say that the human race has gone too far, that we've progressed too much, that we need to go backward. its not true. technologically, yes. however, the fact that we still rely on the destruction of nature proves that we are not at the technological ideal. anyway, what i really want to talk about is our social state. we are very, very far from LBJ's "great society". however, we are trying to go further. the "dark ages" are called so because there was no progress. we measure activity in progress. you see, the entire existence of the human race since the discovery of fire has been to further our standard of living. we CARE. we can't help it. this is what separates us from other animals-not that we're smarter, feel more, or can do more things, but that we care enough to actually change. and even if we don't care, capitalism is set up so that the only way to "honestly" gain is to invent something new, something that people want (aka something to make their lives better). when you die, the only reason people in fifty or a hundred years might remember you is if you either furthered the lives of humans or pulled us back. you know the saying "well behaved women seldom make history"? you can't just sit back and do what you're supposed to. it doesn't work like that.
right now, i'm in school. they're teaching me things like math, and grammar, history and science. if you have ever been in school, you will have spoken or heard the famous line "when am i going to have to use this?" usually, the response has something to do with a career, making money, that sort of thing. THIS IS NOT WHY. the only person you really deeply benefit from an ordinary career is yourself. the reason we have to learn in school is so we can *change the world*. we are all slaves to the future generations. the general human race needs to have two goals right now: shape the whole world into a "great society", and don't blow everything up before we get there. this is what we must do with our otherwise small, pointless* lives.

*pointless to everyone but ourselves and the people we know, that is.