The Unification of the world part 1

It is the year 2010, the year I expected us to have perfected hovercars and giant spaceships that can travel through wormholes at lightspeed. But there's one problem, we don't have any of those. Why? Well the reason is that we are all on a single planet, Earth, but in our minds we don't think that, instead we think that we are Americans, Germans or Chinese etc. We think of the world as a map with a bunch of lines that split us up. We have to stop thinking like that. This may sound crazy but we should think of ourselves not as Americans or as Chinese or as any nationality but as earthlings in which we are all the same. I think that if the world were like this there would be no racism or nationalism or civil wars between men.

Currently, the nations that are at the height of technology are Germany and Japan. If you think about it, who makes most of the world's most efficiant cars? Japan does. Japan also made the PS3 and much more. In my english class, my teacher showed us a video from TED (a growing collection of science interviews), the video was a presentation from a man named Juan Enriquez about technology and the economy. The video gives a brief documentary about our economic crisis and about how fast we are progressing in terms of technology. It states that Germany is starting to make artificial eyes. My most favorite topic was stem cell research, and how it can regrow body parts such as a heart or a windpipe.

In the Janurary 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine (Titled: Merging Man and Machine, The Bionic Age) shows that we have developed cochlear implants (basically a super developed version of a hearing aid) It has a nice X-ray of it in the magazine. You are probably thinking “we are already moving at a fast pace” well, in a sense we are, but think of how much faster we would be if we got all the top grade scientists in the world to work togerther in one room. We would probably aleady have a cure for cancer, and AIDS. But what is preventing us from doing that? The lines on the map is whats preventing us to do so.

Ever since man has started to evolve on Earth, we were ape-like creatures who had tendancy to split ourselves up into “groups.” The group usually consists of members who have something in common, for example: members of the same species, members of the same family etc. Now then, say a family of australopithecus meets another family, what happens? Well, they go to war with each other. In a psycology book, I read that “learning can take place only through experience.” Experience means something that happens to us during our life time, usually involving interactions with our enviroment. If this is true then that is the reason why splitting up into little groups started before the common man. Because if the older members of “Older Humans” split themselves up, the next generation would then do the same in keeping that practice ( due to experience and how they are taught.)

Now, lets jump from when we were ape-like creatures to the more advanced common man. As we progress in history, we find ourselves thinking is there more to life than just Earth, is there a reason why I am here? “The Age of Reason” As we all know, religion played a big role in history, actually, it also ties in with splitting into groups. A group can also consist of the same belief. In history Christianity has a group called “Christians” and Hinduism has a groups called Hindus etc. But think about it really, out of all the wars fought in history most of it was from religion: The Great Crusades, The French Civil War between the Catholic and the Protestants, etc. As you can see splitting up into groups is a bad thing it makes us fight each other and why? Because there is a certain difference. And that difference has to do with what we believe in, where we're from and what we look like. Sometimes it can also be what we dress like or other simpler things.