The True Face of Ignorance in a Technological World
November 1st 2009 12:20
It has been said in historical writings that technology would be the answer for finding a solution all of society’s ills.
While advances in medicine have found cures for diseases and have even eradicated some of the worst killers on the planet there is no cocktail that can be created to cure diseases of the mind.
Diseases that have existed in the hearts and minds of man as a race of people from the very first formation of social groups…
Social groups built on the idea of creating tribes out of a need for reliance on each other to survive. Through these groups, man created great societies that flourished into nation states built on like minded ideals of country and protecting the things that were passed down from generation to generation.
With this sense of belonging also came a fear and loathing for anything that did not fall within the ideals of these set social groups.
Fear of people who looked different than what they were used to, had different ideals concerning religion or how they lived their day to day life fueled rumor, innuendo and built concern within neighboring communities.
Concern grew to fear and fear grew to strife much like the demons that still exist in society today. Demons that instill fear of the unknown into the hearts and minds of world citizens as we point fingers at people whose life and culture we do not understand.
It is this lack of understanding that fuels ignorance in modern society.
Ignorance that formulates the images of what beauty is or how we believe a man or woman is supposed to act, dress or what role they should play in society. Ignorance that believes a person of a certain race should act, dress, walk and talk a certain way based on the images portrayed in our pop culture.
Ignorance that builds stereotypes about what we believe a religion we know nothing about is teaching its members and the role we believe lesbian, gay and transgendered individuals should have in a modern society.
To reinforce our belief in these fears we use buzz words like “acting black”, calling awkward situations gay or saying a person is acting like a man or woman.
The enlightened men and women who predicted that technology would open up the doors of understanding by bringing the world together were dead wrong in this belief because it has only allowed us to scurry further and further into our caves.
Caves where we can pick and choose what information we watch read and soak in knowledge from. It is this choice that allows our society to remain ignorant and closed off from learning the realities that are happening on the streets of America and the World.
The reality behind understanding that a persons skin color is merely about color pigmentations and doesn’t affect how a person walks, talks, dances or sings.
The reality of women and men across the globe being born with the same mental capacity to lead and succeed in life.
The reality behind the lifestyles of lesbian, gay and transgendered individuals being no different than that of the average heterosexual world citizen.
The realities continue to slap us in the face but none of us are getting the point as we continue to live our lives out of shelters.
Shelters of social expectations that we try to drag everyone else into…
The shelter that calls a person weird for listening to a form of music because of their skin color.
The shelter that views a man’s role in society as the hard working provider in his khakis and looks down on anyone who doesn’t fit into this box of social expectation.
The shelter that has the expectation of women having the singular goal of finding a financially suitable mate, becoming the married homemaker in the house with the white picket fence and the dog in the backyard.
The places for us to see the real world are all around us.
A quick search engine click or a trip through the social media spectrum will easily shed light on the story of real Americans and World Citizens as opposed to the “fantasy world” we visit through our entertainment and news mediums.
Entertainment mediums fueled off of the fears of a society struggling with the belief that we might never get a full grasp of the open society that has been created in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
News mediums that pick and choose a view of the world for us to peer into through rose colored or foggy glasses.
As much as we read over the speeches of President Barrack Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. our society has never understood the true meaning of the words behind the men.
The words that called for men and women to be judged for the “content of their character and not the color of their skin.”
The words that called for an open racial dialogue to drag us out of our social belief in societal boxes.
Through these words, movements have been created and achievements have been met by way of ending segregation and the election of our first African American President.
What’s lost in translation is the ultimate root of the problem that goes beyond race, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
The fact that no matter how many laws are passed or measures are put in place to create opportunities in the workplace; Americans still have the right to remain ignorant in their hearts and minds.
Ignorant in the belief that skin color makes one person different from another.
Ignorant in the belief that lesbian, gay and transgendered individuals aren’t deserving of the same rights as the rest of America.
Ignorant in the belief that one religion is inferior from another.
Ignorant to a man or woman’s rights to be whatever they want to be in a world built for the achievement of dreams.
In a world of boxes and societal expectations the dreams of our ancestors will never come true.
While we have achieved the goal of becoming an open society so far as the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Legislation that has been amended to the Constitution; we will never achieve these things on the ground level until we are ready to open up as a society.
Having an open mind to the lives of individuals who may live a different lifestyle than what we consider the norm.
Opening up to learning about different religions across the globe instead of pointing the finger and laughing that their intricacies.
Opening up to learning about the vast variety of people who live in this country and the nuances that exist within different races and nationalities, religions, sexual orientations, genders and regional cultures.
The point where a society loses its civility is when they close their hearts, eyes, minds and ears to the realities that are staring them in the face.
In this technological world where we assume that we know everything there is to know; we are coming dangerously close to the point where we lose the one thing we all assume that we have.
It is never too late to put the train back on the tracks or for us to lose sight of the objective completely.
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While advances in medicine have found cures for diseases and have even eradicated some of the worst killers on the planet there is no cocktail that can be created to cure diseases of the mind.
Diseases that have existed in the hearts and minds of man as a race of people from the very first formation of social groups…
Social groups built on the idea of creating tribes out of a need for reliance on each other to survive. Through these groups, man created great societies that flourished into nation states built on like minded ideals of country and protecting the things that were passed down from generation to generation.
With this sense of belonging also came a fear and loathing for anything that did not fall within the ideals of these set social groups.
Fear of people who looked different than what they were used to, had different ideals concerning religion or how they lived their day to day life fueled rumor, innuendo and built concern within neighboring communities.
Concern grew to fear and fear grew to strife much like the demons that still exist in society today. Demons that instill fear of the unknown into the hearts and minds of world citizens as we point fingers at people whose life and culture we do not understand.
It is this lack of understanding that fuels ignorance in modern society.
Ignorance that formulates the images of what beauty is or how we believe a man or woman is supposed to act, dress or what role they should play in society. Ignorance that believes a person of a certain race should act, dress, walk and talk a certain way based on the images portrayed in our pop culture.
Ignorance that builds stereotypes about what we believe a religion we know nothing about is teaching its members and the role we believe lesbian, gay and transgendered individuals should have in a modern society.
To reinforce our belief in these fears we use buzz words like “acting black”, calling awkward situations gay or saying a person is acting like a man or woman.
The enlightened men and women who predicted that technology would open up the doors of understanding by bringing the world together were dead wrong in this belief because it has only allowed us to scurry further and further into our caves.
Caves where we can pick and choose what information we watch read and soak in knowledge from. It is this choice that allows our society to remain ignorant and closed off from learning the realities that are happening on the streets of America and the World.
The reality behind understanding that a persons skin color is merely about color pigmentations and doesn’t affect how a person walks, talks, dances or sings.
The reality of women and men across the globe being born with the same mental capacity to lead and succeed in life.
The reality behind the lifestyles of lesbian, gay and transgendered individuals being no different than that of the average heterosexual world citizen.
The realities continue to slap us in the face but none of us are getting the point as we continue to live our lives out of shelters.
Shelters of social expectations that we try to drag everyone else into…
The shelter that calls a person weird for listening to a form of music because of their skin color.
The shelter that views a man’s role in society as the hard working provider in his khakis and looks down on anyone who doesn’t fit into this box of social expectation.
The shelter that has the expectation of women having the singular goal of finding a financially suitable mate, becoming the married homemaker in the house with the white picket fence and the dog in the backyard.
The places for us to see the real world are all around us.
A quick search engine click or a trip through the social media spectrum will easily shed light on the story of real Americans and World Citizens as opposed to the “fantasy world” we visit through our entertainment and news mediums.
Entertainment mediums fueled off of the fears of a society struggling with the belief that we might never get a full grasp of the open society that has been created in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
News mediums that pick and choose a view of the world for us to peer into through rose colored or foggy glasses.
As much as we read over the speeches of President Barrack Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. our society has never understood the true meaning of the words behind the men.
The words that called for men and women to be judged for the “content of their character and not the color of their skin.”
The words that called for an open racial dialogue to drag us out of our social belief in societal boxes.
Through these words, movements have been created and achievements have been met by way of ending segregation and the election of our first African American President.
What’s lost in translation is the ultimate root of the problem that goes beyond race, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
The fact that no matter how many laws are passed or measures are put in place to create opportunities in the workplace; Americans still have the right to remain ignorant in their hearts and minds.
Ignorant in the belief that skin color makes one person different from another.
Ignorant in the belief that lesbian, gay and transgendered individuals aren’t deserving of the same rights as the rest of America.
Ignorant in the belief that one religion is inferior from another.
Ignorant to a man or woman’s rights to be whatever they want to be in a world built for the achievement of dreams.
In a world of boxes and societal expectations the dreams of our ancestors will never come true.
While we have achieved the goal of becoming an open society so far as the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Legislation that has been amended to the Constitution; we will never achieve these things on the ground level until we are ready to open up as a society.
Having an open mind to the lives of individuals who may live a different lifestyle than what we consider the norm.
Opening up to learning about different religions across the globe instead of pointing the finger and laughing that their intricacies.
Opening up to learning about the vast variety of people who live in this country and the nuances that exist within different races and nationalities, religions, sexual orientations, genders and regional cultures.
The point where a society loses its civility is when they close their hearts, eyes, minds and ears to the realities that are staring them in the face.
In this technological world where we assume that we know everything there is to know; we are coming dangerously close to the point where we lose the one thing we all assume that we have.
It is never too late to put the train back on the tracks or for us to lose sight of the objective completely.
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