PART II - MAN: AN ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE

A look into the future, unlike the past, where we have a route to follow as we saw on our past blog: Man: An archive of History, the future is uncertain, unpredictable and nobody really knows how things will turn out, but one thing remains constant that the future is determined by choices we make now. The choice can only have one out of the possible two outcomes of between good and bad, life or death, prosperity or destruction, right or wrong, evil or righteous.

Of course, choices are determined by many factors such as; environmental, culture, historical period we live in and to determine the outcome of a choice, a choice should be looked through these lenses. That  explains,  why currently we scoff at the superstitions and irrational choices that most people held in the 15^th century, but in their time their choice was considered a truthful and rational choice and in the same way, future generations of the 45^th century will scoff at the choices of the current 21^st century because the factors that affect our choice continuously changes with the advances man makes in various aspects. And therefore the “truth” of today may be the false of 300 years from now.

Humanity will always find itself on a road diverting into two, and they will have to make a choice because they can only travel on one.

From history men have traveled

the road that is short sighted and selfish to meet a temporary moment of happiness. Issues of greed, societal indifference and individual callousness are deeply rooted in our human imperfections and these elements can be traced in our moral underpinning.

For instance, man since creation has continuously modified and invented weapons of mass destruction from weapon of stones to sophisticated weapons such as the atomic bombs. Man has made the world a great battle field and has engaged in world wars. Our scientific progress has been pushed with intention to improve, modify and invent weapons of mass destruction. Look at any technological instruments, like computers, mobile phones, cameras, landing on the moon and you realized they advanced quickly due to their connection to some military activity, with the intention to be ahead of an “enemy”. That may explains why in most countries military budgets are almost the highest.  With this giant steps of technological progress we have directed droned and missiles to pin point accuracy to cause havoc, chaos and destruction to distant lands but we have been unable to make accurate choices to lead humanity to even one step to the future.

Countries are living in inactive wars in the name of peace and yet seated on a nuclear time bomb that can erupt on just pressing of a button by a “leader” who just wants to feed his  ego and with the slightest provocation he will press the red button to show case his military super power.

Humans in this century are engaged in environmental massacre. We torture Mother Nature to fulfill our greed and selfish needs. ‘We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails… all for a jewel to wear on petty finery’. We clear a whole forest just to manufacture a piece of paper and empty gallons of toxic substances into our water bodies. Now Mother Nature has begun to retaliate. Natural disasters are becoming so common; Hurricanes, heat waves, floods, earthquakes, landslides, water crisis, mudslides, Tsunamis and the list goes on. If this continues humanity has already placed its neck on the guillotine and the razor shall fall. We have repudiated from our duty to use and utilize the knowledge we have to live together with Mother Nature, therefore we shall all perish like fools.

Due to our continuous destructive environmental activities, maybe billions of years from now humans will be extinct. New intelligent specie will evolve or maybe aliens from far galaxies will visit our planet and they will place our fossils and skeletons alongside those of dinosaurs. The aliens will wonder what happened to the human species that whipped the whole population from the surface of the world.  They will speculate that we died of starvation but the reality was that we never took care of mother nature and it destroyed us , they will say we got extinct because of a massive comet strike that hit the planet, but the truth will be , we developed weapons of mass destruction that killed all humans, they will even develop theories that our specie evolved to another specie, but the truth  is we as human race just raced to outdo each other  with materialistic gains and in the process we killed and slaughter each other to extinction.

PART I - MAN: AN ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE

by Todd William

Consider this for a moment, suppose you have two children (your 1^st Generation), who grow up to maturity and each of this children sires two children (your 2^nd generation) making you have a total of four descendants, this children again sire two children (your 3^rd generation) making you have a total of eight children. If this pattern continuous up to the thirty third(33^rd) generation you shall have a total of over 8.5 billion living children all originating from you directly. This means your descendants shall be more than the current world population which is currently about 8 billion. (See the complete calculation to the 33^rd generation on the image)

This clearly shows that within you lies that future of humanity. That if this world had only have you and your spouse, within 33 generation you will have populated the world back to its current population.

Now that you know in the next 33 generations you shall have descendants similar to the current world population, what does that mean to you?  What duties and responsibilities does that bestow on you?

You see, if you have an idea of an ideal world you want to see maybe your own “utopia”, let’s say a honest world. You can just teach your children honesty, and they will teach their children honesty as they say “train a child on way to go and when he grows old he will not depart from it” and in the 33^rd generation the world will see a population full of honest people. What if you teach your children greed, then vice versa is true.  Now, you see how changing the world is not that complicated.

 What we do now, how we do it, how we think, what we believe was influenced by our ancestors millions of years ago. So, what we do today will influence future generation millions of years from now.