In this blogpost, I will be discussing a truth that is rather in convient. As a part of mankind, I think I have the right to say this, as a whole, I think we're pretty stupid.
When you look back at history, we look like absolute idiots. Sure we can capture energy from the sun and have any information you need in a light up box on your lap, but really compared to all the really dumb stuff we've done? Allow me to list just a few: WWI, WWII (didn't see that one coming did you? ;), race superiority, etc. I'm pretty sure those outweigh the technological advances that we've made.
In class this week, we've been discussing love and how the motion picture "Once" compares to how we perceive love. Today in class specifically, we were talking about all of the insights that "Once" has given us about love: Love is uncomfortable, Love is hard to speak about, and the one I'll be focusing most on in this blog post is Love isn't always fair.
Okay, for some reason, from what I see, most people get upset when things don't go their way. I'm pretty sure someone has told them in their life that "Life's not Fair," so why they would get upset when everything doesn't go their way baffles me. Don't get me wrong, I get upset when something doesn't go my way too, but I try and move on just like everyone else does. (some people are better at this than others.) It also helps that I'm a strong believer in the "Everything Happens for a Reason" theory, so there ya go.
Well now that we got off on that tangent, back to our regularly scheduled programming. I think that people who think that everything is easy and is going to go their way are stupid. I know, I just called myself and probably the majority of the planet stupid but hey Jack, this is the internet, I can say whatever I want.
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It seems like every history class since 6th grade, we've started out the year answering the question "Why do we study history?" This question bothers me because I personally don't think we should study history, al least not at the depth we delve into it. Anyways, the answer we always seem to come up with is: We need to learn history because it prevents us from repeating the past. children have been learning history in school since my parents were in school, so when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and I think we've repeated history just a couple times ya know. They're only been like half a dozen + genocides, countless civil wars, a couple of times when we discriminated against people.
Mankind is stupid. We learn about something every year for 14 years, and then go and start another war. We say, life's not fair, and then mourn for 2 years after our relationship doesn't work out.
This inconvenient truth bothers me because, as a member of mankind, I don't like calling myself stupid but as the term implies, it's the truth. Mankind has been stupid though for over 2000 years, (although I think it's gotten exponentially worse in the last 300.) So I guess we're just going to have to work on being a little smarter, and think before we perform an action.
**le sigh**
You are awesome. Never forget.
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You win, Jordan. You absolutely win. You're honest, to the point, and I'm really impressed with the entire idea. And you're right. I'm a pretty cynical person, honestly. Despite my apparent "sunny demeanor" (Thanks, Mrs. Sible), I really don't have much faith in the world or the people around me. I kind of muddle through, talking to the 2% of people I actually enjoy getting on with and trying to stay motivated. I really have the terrible attitude that most of the world is ignorant, stupid, causing trouble, annoying, or just not really worth putting up with. I think it stems from all the news stories of drug busts, and stupid arguments over stupid things, and religious conflict, and stories of 5 year olds being shot because there were two idiot 13 year olds playing with a gun that they got out of their father's drawer in the street and it misfired. It drives me crazy. I feel like people don't think about what they do at all. I fell like everyone is so utterly self-centered that they can't actually process thinking about the safety of themselves and their families when they go out and play it cool with their drugs and their guns and their gangs. People need to think about their actions instead of just acting on impulse and causing trouble for those around them. The less drama the better. Though I love History to death, I also agree with your comment on how we learn nothing from it. I enjoy learning about it, but if the point of history classes is to learn from the past, we've done an incredibly shitty job on that. I really loved this entry, Jordan. Great job!
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