The Cosmos and Our Future

This post is dedicated to all my nieces, nephews, my granddaughter and all the children of world. They are the future.

We are made of star stuff and in the end we will rejoin the stars. The universe is a growing, expanding and changing. You might say evolving, just like all the creatures of the earth or the creatures in other galaxies. It is foolish to believe we are alone in the universe and/or that we are the center of the universe. Science and thought are the light of the world. Without it we would not know the beauty of universe. We would not know how to see it or learn from it or calculate great distances. We would not know how to calculate the speed of light or that the light waves travel. We would not have sent men to the moon or probes to Mars. Science and technology are the building blocks of human society and knowledge and it has grown and been built upon from the beginning of time and hopefully that will continue. Science got us this far and science is the key to the future.

There are two things that are holding us back: Business and religion. Neither institution has a vested interest in moving humanity forward. Both institutions are interested in keeping us ignorant and controlling our activities to suit their agendas. Many times these agendas go hand in hand. There is not a god that wants to keep us ignorant. “God” does not care what humans are wearing or who they sleeping with or what color your skin is and if you worship or not. Religions are man-made and so are the books used to teach about these religions. There will be no “Rapture”. There is no Messiah who will come back and make everything right. Even if there were a Messiah, what would make us worthy of salvation? We support death and destruction en masse with everything we do or don’t do. The only way to save the world is by using our minds and changing our actions.

Despite the pervasive, insidiousness of religion, business is even worse. Corporations spread ignorance through media and greed through marketing. They will sell anything, even if it is dangerous, useless, or deadly. Child labor is no problem. Wars that allow them access to resources and markets, no big deal. Poisoning the water, land, air is just another day at the office. Research and development only have value to business when they can sell it. Business exploits us all without shame or remorse.

We do not need more business people; they will only hold us back. Business wants slow, small, incremental changes that they can sell to you. Business wants changes that they can market. They want to hold on to the old and sell it to you as new and improved. We need more scientists and mathematicians.  We should encourage all of our children to appreciate science and do well in math.  We need to encourage children to study science at the University level. Image if we had 10 times the number of scientist we have now. How much more would we know? How much farther along in our development would we be?  What if every person in America or the world for that matter was well educated? Image if young people over the last 30 years had been devoted to science, invention, critical thinking, building and developing new technologies? What would our world be like? What ideas are inside of people lying fallow, waiting and wanting to come out? I imagine the world would look a lot different and we would not have the problems that we have now after 30 years of everyone concentrated on business. 

Most inventions and discoveries have been made by a select group of people because most people have not had opportunity for education and/or the ability to think about anything other than survival. Things do not have to be the same in the future. Education and discovery should be our priority. Standardized test do not expand our children's minds, they eliminate critical thinking and decrease imagination. Not teaching evolution will not help the future. Believing that the world/universe is 6,000 years old is not just wrong, it’s holding back whole segments of the population from moving forward with us, with the universe. Teaching children to be drones for the system does not even help the system in the long run.  We are meant to learn, to change and to go to the stars. If it can be conceived, then it can be achieved. We just need to keep imagination, knowledge, and progress alive.

Every person knows something you don’t know. Educated people should not be shunned or berated just because they know things that you don’t know. The great thing about humans is that we can always learn. If you don’t know much about science, you can learn more about it at anytime in your life. Science has the potential to change your worldview and it is suppose to do this. New information should change what you think and feel.

The building blocks of the future are scattered around the globe inside the imaginations of unknown people who live in many different countries, speaking different languages, dreaming different dreams.  Who is the next great mind? Which person has the next great invention or discovery just waiting to get out? As long as we do not educate all children to highest the level possible, we will never know. 

Demand more money for education from your government. Demand more money for research and development. Demand an end to wars that are killing our future. Demand to move alternate energy sources. Demand the future we deserve.

Keep reaching for the stars,

Fobbsie

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