A large aspect of today’s world is living in a near-constant state of fear and anxiety. Unnecessarily amplified by technology’s unrealistic demands of having us instantly accessible all hours of the day, it’s unfortunately complemented by a world of business, politics, and media that runs on fear and panic. There’s so much more positive news in the world than meets the eye and it’s because our world is run by people who rather that news not meet our eyes.
Instead, the plan is to keep everyone in a constant state of crippling fear and anxiety, which breeds depression, anger, paranoia, and burnout. As governments, corporations, and celebrities try to be the touchstones for morals, ethics, and best social practice, we stray further from an objective truth. As information becomes more accessible and as opinions become more ubiquitous, it’s often difficult to know what’s “right” and what’s “wrong,” especially since mass preference can change on a dime. This type of moral relativism that changes with the times cannot possibly foster a smart and stable society.
That is not the world that was designed for us and that is not the world we should be leaving for our generation.
It almost seems that there is too much confusion as to why our kids are more anxious and hopeless than the kids of generations passed. It makes much more sense when children are raised by computer screens, sometimes in broken homes. It makes sense when we teach our children to hate themselves, hate their country, and hate everything that the future holds, but it ultimately does not matter because the world will end in ten years. It makes sense when we teach our children that the same forms of social sectionalism we fought to upend just fifty years ago are now preferred by some in the upper echelons of society.
It makes sense, ultimately, when we rely on ourselves. A compass cannot point to itself for guidance, a map cannot route to itself for directions. If we subjectively define our own truths based on what “feels right” or is deemed acceptable, then the truths of today become hearsay tomorrow. That’s always how it has been. Four hundred years ago, the practice of slavery was viewed by many as perfectly fine and even customary. Now, we couldn’t imagine a world in which the slave trade endures – it does, those same aforementioned powers would prefer you don’t know about it. In the same way, our virtues of today may possibly be criticized by our descendants.
Seeking a higher power, a divine, intelligent, mediator who created you with a purpose and this world with a plan is much easier than leaving it all up to chance, that everything came from nothing, and that order followed chaos. Even if those two points are true, the world still feels hopeless and pointless.
Government can try to play God, but they cannot be God. For them, as long as you don’t know the difference, they can laugh all the way to their thrones in Switzerland.
For those who acknowledge a better point to life, they can laugh every day to their driveway in Coram, planting the seeds for a more hopeful and joyful world.
