Humans and their World

As a human we are born into a community. A community on a family basis, on a basis of friends, a community consisting of society and the community of societies. The community is of great importance. It is what has ensured that humanity has been able to survive.

The community or society consists of its members and a set of rules and guidelines. These are kept by custom, the majority of individuals following these rules, or they are enforced by power (power is simply the process of not challenging authority). Our societies consist of laws, our innate behaviour and our learned behaviour and ways of thinking, education. These rules direct society and restrict it to run in certain channels.

In a small community these channels are narrow and relatively inflexible. There are few new inputs, few powers that may act upon these restrictions to change them. As the community grows, becomes more complicated and more interconnected with other communities the variations increase. People who find themselves to be outliers of these restrictions have the possibility to find other outliers and form new communities with different restrictions. This mix of diversity and various restrictions is a stable state. The differences in communities mean that whatever circumstances arise there is often another community that has adapted to them or is able to adapt to them.

A community that is restricted in its ways, that has no possibility of change is in grave danger. A deep change of circumstances and the inflexible community will vanish.

The international community, if functioning in harmony is a stable safehaven for humanity. Yet human nature has seldomly allowed for harmony. So competition and greed have meant that societies and civilisations have risen and fallen. This sort of equilibrium between different communities and societies lasted for a long time. It was not stable but it formed an equilibrium of independent communities.

Over the last centuries this system has begun to be taken over. Communities and society have mixed and amalgamated, however only on the highest levels. Interests of the elites have become interconnected and intertwined in many vastly different communities and societies. This melting together of elites has broken the equilibrium and formed a new culture and country spanning community that is able to influence and direct societies.

This is developing into an attempt to set the same rigid restrictions on every community the world over. In infinite greed, individuals and groups with power are converting the members of the community through learned behaviour and ways of thinking to adapt to their ways and form one single community that has no alternatives. 

In order to function this world community must place great restrictions on its members. Being different can not be tolerated. The system of this community is becoming so intricate and finely tuned that a shock or change will cause devastation to the whole system. This is its great weakness. This one community is becoming like a human alone in the wilderness. A single misshap, a single shock has the potential to destroy the whole construct and with it its members. Despite this danger, the restrictions that this community has been channeled into reinforce themselves due to the self perpetuating nature of its education and valuing of dangerous and if left unchecked, damaging human traits: greed and selfishness.

In order to survive, this community must reform the restrictions it has imposed on itself. It must rechannel itself into a more stable system of diversity and independent interconnectedness. This can only be done, if the endless potential and possibilities of the void are realised.