Is This Who We Are?

In my daily experience, I have encountered a phenomenon that really intrigues me and disappoints me at the same time. When I was younger, I thought that it was just me and my imagination. The observation was this, there seems to be a characteristic that most of the people that they don't care much about the world around them and only worry about living life until they ultimately cease living. It seems that the vast majority of these people have little or no curiosity, little to no ambition, are only interested in petty personal issues and the minutia that goes on in their lives.

This view of the world totally baffles me because in the past, information about the nature of the world around has been rather difficult to come by. If there was something that needed to be learned, effort, sometimes great effort needed to be expended to gather the raw information and even more time was necessary to sift through and process it because connecting with others with the same interest was not easy, so each individual had access only to his or her personal resources and knowledge. Now that general and specialized information is easily gained just by researching what is available on the internet, one would think that, since it is now easy to gain knowledge, people would flock to it like thirsty men to fresh water. The thing is, most people only focus on trivial things like gossip and porn, if they can get up enough motivation to even get connected.

This leads me to believe that philosophies expounded by those who I would have characterized as elitists, bigots of lazy thinkers that most humans are not much different that cattle, who wait patiently while the farmer fattens them until the time come to lead them to the barn to cut their throats and butcher them for this years meat. They never look up from the grazing even while their peers are led one by one to their fates. They never realize that their time will come and probably come soon.

There are a very few others that want to see things for what they are. In my experience, they are very, very rare. I don't know if there are others who have the true gift of curiosity and are willing to follow it to where it ultimately leads and don't discuss it or if what I see is an accurate picture.

Eric Burger, who writes a blog for the Houston Chronicle, has posted an article titled, A Majority of Americans are Intellectually Incurious"

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/04/a_majority_of_a_1.html

His article is based on a Live Science article posted here:

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060419_omd_study.html

What is amounts to is that the vast majority of American just don't care about much.

Considering that we are living in the most dangerous period in the history of this world, it is shocking that most of the people that I meet have an abysmal understanding of what is going on here where they live and to others in this world, if they care to know at all. In some ways, I feel sorry for them, but at the same time, I don't have much sympathy for them when they face consequences that fall upon them, for they never had desire to make a difference or to even acknowledge their situation. It's a shocking indictment on the worth of the many that when they are gone, the world will be a better place.

When I hear that the elites believe that the world is overpopulated and that they believe the solution is to let them die off, I have to agree that in the long term its for the best. Their cold calculation of the value of their fellow humans is accurate. Most of us are nothing more than wasters of resources.

The world will be a better place when they are gone.