Systems we create make us who we are not.
Systems that we create set the ground rules for the way we interact with them to sustain them and to sustain ourselves. Those who know well to interact do well and join the group of elitists or experts while those who cannot, end up as commoners needing assistance.
However, if we strip to the core reasons of why we ended up creating these systems and the purpose for which we created them or creating them, we find ourselves in a situation feeling shameful about the way in which we are surrounding ourselves with these non-human systems that are sucking off the very essence of the spirit of our existence on this world we call it home. They are draining our spirits, human connections and turning us more into lead a life of robots than spending time to discover and enjoy the beautiful creation of us as humans.
We start our lives on this planet Earth as human beings and end up leaving this earth as what others categorize into commoners, scientists, engineers, politicians, artists and many other categorizations that we only came up with to make sense of who we are amongst the other human beings than making sense of who they are living with us as humans.
Who are we really? Many great human beings who departed this world were never ‘rich’ or had a ‘celebrity’ status of any kind. Many rich and famous are just that – rich and famous. It is better to depart this world by something useful to the humanity at large than to exploit the humanity at large. What do I mean that?
We need to find ways in which we recognize the place we live as home is not the address we give it to others as our home address. It is bigger than, and has to be. We should be able to think big to embrace the whole world as one big home address that we can give to those who would visit us from other worlds one day. If we go down that line, we are one big family.
In which case, why do we introduce division that harms the family? Why do we create systems that harm each other? Why do we make one do certain things that one does not like to do to. Is it too much of a problem for us to let others and help others to lead a decent life as a human beings? If our own folks land in trouble, don’t we stand by them, coach them, help them, and advise them? But why do we fail to do the same once we feel that someone is outside that ‘our folks’ definition?
It is not cultural, social or political. It is the systems that we have created that has segregated others that we don’t think the way we think or don’t see the way we see. We have to have one class of human beings living on this world – an educated class – to develop perspectives which can stop either ruining the home we live or ruining the human kind that we say we belong to?
It is time now to rethink the way we have lived. The new generation kids do not view the world the way we view them. We are forcing them to do just that. We can do better including sustaining this world we call our home for them to be habitable to live when we depart from this world.
Let us create systems that do not make us anything less than what we really are – a human kind that can appreciate the other kinds of living beings who have formed a great bond with this world and with us. Let those systems perish that do not hold these values, let us not create systems that make us perish.