Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Dare I pioneer, or shall I defy or heavens forbid "define" modern context?

I know I must sound conceited when I say that there is a possibility that I (a 30 year old sociologist with a state univeristy education) know more than doctors. Simply because they are doctors and I'm a nobody. However the reality is that pioneer (like myself) are the ones that change history.  For example, at one point in history in the 16th century people thought that the earth was flat and that the ocean fell off the end of the earth.  But due to the courage of a few brave pioneers, humanity was able to break that false belief in favor of the truth.  

Nothing is perfect, nothing.  Everything and anything can always be improved to some degree. And lord knows our society is far from perfect.  This is the concept of progress and CPI, continual process improvement.  Science is the only answer. This is one thing I love about science.  Science's mission is to discover and understand the truth about the universe. However a principle of the scientific method is that what we believe to be the truth is only science's best guess, as the true nature of reality is not, and may never truly be know one hundred percent. Science is principle has no ego. And if our current hypothesis, theory or belief is proven false or trumped by new facts, we discard our current model in favor of the newer, more correct version.  

I humbly accept that I don't know everything or that I have all the answers. But I believe that am on to something and that I may be more correct than an old conservative doctor.  

All I'm asking for is that you consider that fact that you or I, or any other young person for that matter (the next generation is going to be the smarted in human history because of the wealth of information on the internet) may have a new fresh and valuable contribution to make. However if we wish to improve our society and our world, then we must leave behind old beliefs and ideas in favor of newer, better solutions to our problem.  

One thing is for sure.  If we keep doing things exactly as we are now, then nothing is going to change or improve, and the problems will only get worse.  It's time to evolve and progress. And it is up to me, the educated social scientist, or you, the unique individual with new creative ideas, inventive solutions or heck even just something different, to change the world.  
It's not going to happen any other way.  It is up to us.  This is our responsibility to do something for the sake of posterity....

So, what do you have to contribute?  What do you see as wrong or broken about our society that needs to be fixed?  It is my experience that if something feels wrong, it probably is... Don't let anyone tell you differently...  Follow your heart.  

     -Peace, Progress, Love and Learning for Posterity's sake! 


Dare I pioneer? v1.02 July 30, 2014    

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