More slow people please...
Story: We need more ‘slow’ people. People who mix and match things just to see if they can fit together with a little help from the human element. Like pilots of spacecraft, (the ‘fast’ people) race into oblivion to be the first to discover the unknown, sending back information for the ‘slow people’ to figure out. They are discovering and sending information back at such a rate, there are not enough ‘slow’ people to assemble the information into workable knowledge. Too many are kept so busy archiving discovery, there is no time, and not enough people to pause and actually decipher the discoveries and assemble them in a usable context. We are sorely lacking ‘assemblers’. We all know one or two of those people with common sense who have access and the ability to communicate with those people possessing un-common sense. It is my opinion; people who contribute most to mankind are people who know what to do with a discovery, not the ones who found it. Hell, anyone can read a road map! The fear of not being recorded as a participant of life is a tremendous drug to the seekers. Too many want to be remembered as the one whose idea it was to build the pyramids, I ordered my people to build them, therefore they are mine; not the ones who ‘actually’ built the pyramids'. Interesting enough, that’s the way our history books convey the event to us. The artifacts from ‘Joe Blows’ pyramid is going to be on display in the city of ‘bla, bla’. So what? He built nothing. He designed nothing. He was simply the one who enslaved his own people, and the peoples of others to waste precious time and lives erecting a monument to himself. What a cruel bastard to waist other peoples lives for something so frivolous. The workers, who died of heat exhaustion; who were mercilessly whipped and chained, those are the ones the history books and seekers should have been archiving, not the communistic tyrants who enslaved them. We need more of those thankless soles who spend countless hours and lives working to actually understand and explain the artifact. We presently need fewer people breaking into sacred vaults built for preserving historic artifacts depicting the lives of the wealthy enslavers of humanity. We need to be garnering information about humanity, not who controlled them through fear and torture. True, we need to scrutinize these people so we don’t make the same mistake again, but lets not put them ‘on high’ in death! We need more information regarding not the one who landed on the moon, but the ones who got him there by understanding previous discoveries; previous artifacts. You know, kind of like the one person who realizes that if we have to move an asteroid heading for the earth, and we decide to ‘nudge’ it so it misses earth, we save our race for another day; unfortunately, by doing so will probably send it on a collision course to hit some other planet, and perhaps another species. There may be severe complications and penalties for ‘guessing’ or apathy. We need people out there who may just think for one second the asteroid may already have been ‘nudged’ to adjust speed and trajectory by someone or something other than ourselves. We need people asking “why all of a sudden is an asteroid on a new trajectory to hit the earth, when for thousands of years its trajectory missed earth or the asteroid never came this way at all?” What changed out there? Why, you say, should we care, why would someone or something out there do that on purpose? I can think of many reasons: 1. to test our nuclear capabilities. 2. To test our reactions. 3. To test our intentions with regards to space “the last frontier". In other words, are we a species that should be watched, are we considered dangerous? Is this a test to find out our true intentions, compassions, and feelings towards others? Are we still the warring species that kills, eats, and tortures its own kind and other living species or is it a species of animal that is becoming more intelligent and therefore, more compassionate; or perhaps more dangerous and deadly in the universe? Is this species of earth just going to do the obvious and move the asteroid without considering the consequences of altering its trajectory to save themselves? 4. Does the human race have the mental capacity to use their minds and ‘work the problem’? 5. Either way, if we do not save ourselves, we will surely show our compassion for others; however, if we ‘nudge’ the asteroid we will surely show our ’hole card’ to whoever may be watching. Personally, I believe we have the technology to stop the asteroid or slow it down to give us the time we need to eliminate the threat. Perhaps send it into a gravitational orbit around another planet. Regardless, we are going too fast, and it is my opinion, with the advent of supercomputers, we are garnering information and discovery faster than we can digest the implications of the find. We simply need more people deciphering and scrutinizing the information we have already accumulated. Instead of guessing and using up precious resources and time, fixing problems we have created ourselves. If the ‘human element’ is eliminated, we may fail. The one good thing about ‘trial & error’ is that processes take longer; and hence, gives us the much needed time to avoid problems, and/or to fix those we have created or alter outcomes we have sorely misjudged. Odds are, we will miss something very, very, important in our haste to get in the books. As ‘Mankind’ we only get one chance to impress the teacher. Let’s slow down for a moment and do this right. We can do both, we can learn to write, and we can also learn about that which we are writing. All the best. RJ