So I've decided that most people don't read enough. I don't just mean, "Oh noes, the literacy level in America is falling, and adults are reading at a 3rd grade level, and everyone is spending more time trying to spell 'porno' in their search engine than then they are investigating world-changing events in the news!", I mean that people have begun the slow and horrifying process of rejecting information.
Plain and simple, most humans today do NOT want to know anything, PERIOD. They'd rather be told the summary, informed of the results, or just plain skipped over when it comes to educating themselves about virtually anything important. Even things they enjoy (or claim to enjoy) have become too difficult to learn about.
And so they sit, hour upon hour, in front of their mindless entertainment, degenerating into a uninspired sack of sod. If anything, THIS is why problems do not get fixed in this, and many other countries. Not bad economy, not corrupt politicians, not natural disasters, but the sheer lack of desire to better oneself. It looks like, after all these years out of the trees, we've actually managed to lose the one thing that helped us become the dominant life form on the planet: the competitive drive.
So the question I pose to you, dear reader, is this: What, if anything, can be done to re-start our will to dominate?
Think long, and think hard. The answer, if there is one at this late stage of the game, will not come easy.
~~Always, and Never
~~Destrude
