This is for
the people who still believe that the Universe conspires to do them good.
You are the
ones who know we have problems, but as John Kennedy said, "Man's problems were created by man, and can therefore be solved by man." Did I quote him correctly? You get the gist.
You are the
people who are not numbed by naysayers, by the doomsday ones, the media,
television, periodicals, books on horrors. We have heard so many horrors they
doesn’t shock us anymore. We can have endless hours of brain-numbing television.
Do you watch some of those commercials? Cars that turn color, fly, suggest that
they will improve your sex life, and your family life, yet, cars these days are
boring, with few exceptions they all look alike. Talk about sizzle and no
steak.
Oh yes and
movie previews are so gross I forget what movie I came to see. “Can you amp it
up a bit I ask sarcastically after I have endured ear-splitting sound, computer
generated monsters, mechanical gear, space ships so complex you know that the
special effects people are trying to out-do each other, and shootings,
poundings. Amp it up. Be bigger, bolder, more shocking.
We can spend
hours on video games that keep us addicted to movement and challenges that are
not solving the situations outside our doors. A great amount of brain power
here, but people feel stymied—they try to find jobs, they try to be entrepreneurs,
they try to sell, to market, to create the life they want, and after awhile
give up in frustration.
Are we
supporting our arts? Are we supporting the scientists that are giving us a
better day? Have you heard that with 3-D printing they can take a 3-D printer to third-world countries, and fabricate an
artificial limb especially suited for that individual? Whoa. Let’s not sit
around with our fingers up our noses.
We hear of
space aliens, solar flares, vampires, chem-trails, and any number of
conspiracies—don’t get me wrong I believe some of the conspiracies, we just
can’t let them demoralize us into zombies, needing constant influx of food,
drink, sodas, medications, anything to sooth the savage beast that threatens to
take us over. You have heard the old joke, “Died at 35, buried at 85.” Don’t do
that.
And stop dinking
with our food! Turn your genetic engineering brilliance someplace else—like curing
cancer. You are making us fat.
Okay, okay, I know I am preaching to the
choir—no, I’m venting, and yes, I am motivated by the movie Tomorrowland. See it and decide that you are the ones that have not
given up.
“Homo sapiens,” said Dr Who in The Ark in Space,
“what an inventive, invincible species. It’s only a few million years since
they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenseless bipeds.
They’ve survived flood, famine and plague. They’ve survived cosmic wars and
holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new
life. Ready to out sit eternity. They’re indomitable.”