Aphorism Oubliette

Everything that came before you read this has shaped you. Dwell on that for a second and feel the weight that comes with it. It gets heavier. You were not the only one being changed, molded. Lives innumerable are intertwined to your own in ways few even think of. Your apartment exists because in 1912 a group erected it using the skills and experiences of their past. The coffee you are sipping, helped pay for the barista who served it stay off the street. It is the height of hubris, of ignorance to believe our life is so special that it exists outside of the time we belong to. That our actions do not impact the world around us. There are few who truly hold such hubris and ignorance to believe they are above it all. Most of us though exhibit it in much smaller ways. That one cigarette you flicked out your car window is not hurting anything, anyone. Treating the latest drought, wildfire, or flood sweeping an area as just some everyday event.  I mean we are only human.

I am so tired of us hiding behind the “we are only human” argument. I refuse to believe that our humanity is a curse and is something to use as an excuse, a crutch for our actions. Humans are capable of so much more. We have to be. I can think of nothing that would cause more despair than living in a world where humanity can not rise above the darkness surrounding it and bring forth new light, new hope. Hope is not a fantasy but is made true through action.Our actions now will determine the future, if any, the generations to come will be born into.

Will we seeing being “only human” as our curse or as our challenge?

Turn away, divert your eyes

Trust me, look away

You do not want to see, to know

Keep the cracks out of mind, out of sight

Not your problem, nothing to cause concern

I warned you, do not continue

Conform to the path, the one traveled by most

Drown with humanity in distractions, blind to the cracks

They are not growing, they are not deepening

But what if you're wrong, what if they are?

Don't question, don't think

Questions form knowledge, thoughts more questions

Knowledge forms actions, actions have weight

Weight to turn back the clock, change what we have done

The clock tolls 11:59, will it be midnight that follows?

Every Ethics class I’ve ever been in has flabbergasted the masses of college students with the dilemma of saving the one versus saving the many.

Personally, I’d save a dog over most humans if it came right down to it.

This dilemma came up in conversation today, and it seemed like a good one... but I want to take it a step further. Do you sacrifice one for the good of the many? Do you save one life at the expense of countless more? Or do you just say fuck people and go find a puppy to cuddle?

~Echo

The one must choose the many, and the many must choose the one. Without this the choice will be taken from us and no one will be left. The one must see themselves as a part of the whole and realize their actions effect those around them. The many must value the voice of the individual and put all beliefs through the crucible so the Truth is known.

To do otherwise allows those like Hitler to govern the direction of humanity.

All For One & One For All, or All Shall Have None.

As we all do, bare and screaming, unaware of what awaits us out in this bright, wide space we’ve been thrust into.

There are probably better analogies for tumblr, but there’s nothing as simplistic as birth as a metaphor for new.

And we are... new. Fresh and free and full of thoughts. I have no idea where this will go, but I know it begins here.