Downfall of mankind

I guess I should know by now you can’t stop or prevent ignorance; it’s mankind’s downfall, I’m afraid. Even with all our educational systems, modern scientific disciplines, knowledge, research and investigations, many of us lack the ability to look, or see the big picture of true reality. Most of us need to believe in some higher power governing and controlling our future. We can’t accept that we are totally alone, and on our own, and this world we call Earth is all we will ever have.

People have always been out for blood, and took matters into their own hands. There is no more evil today than there has been in the past; we just are more aware of what’s going on in the world, and we have new and more destructive ways to kill and destroy each other and all the things around us.

I’ve seen so much hate, bigotry, ultra-conservatives’ hypocrisy, financial and political elitism and, usually, with the support of religious idealism, or “God is on our side, and by our side, so you better watch out, and either join us or suffer the consequences.” It’s a shame that humans can be so easily manipulated, to the point that they become totally committed to a religious ideal, and become a devoted follower of their leader. There are all degrees of this “brainwashing,” from a cult follower or religious fanaticism, to very narrow-minded conservatism, to blind faith in anything.

The truth hurts sometimes, and we all want to be comforted by our faith. But we have to be able to accept the real facts and incorporate them into our belief system; otherwise we will be inclined to repeat all the mistakes of the past. There is no evil on Earth without mankind. Water has never been 7 miles deep over all the planet’s surface. Earth is billions of years old. All living things are related. Fortune-tellers, mystics and psychics can’t tell the future; no one can since it hasn’t happened yet.

We are all in this together, whether we like it or not.

L.D. BINTLIFF Bee Branch