Okay, I'm gonna follow a bit of Cartesian philosophy here. If you don't know what that is, it's basically an idea Rene Descartes came up with that says you're the only person that exists. Everyone, everything around you is just a figment of your imagination, your own creation (Think of it like in the movie inception, the subject fills it with his subconscious because it ain't real).
Backstory established, isn't it a bit odd the situation I am in? I'm a white male living in America, the sole superpower of this world. Let's discuss America, real quick: It was established as a land of opportunity, by people trying to escape religious persecution, economic decline and adventure. Eventually, these people, these farmers with pitchforks and rifles managed to come together and beat the best military in the world at the time to secure independence from a tyrannical and parasitic monarchy. These same people managed to establish the first working democratic government since the Greeks.
Lets backtrack to the white male thing; we've always been considered better. Through the racism and sexism, white males have almost always had more rights and more freedom than others since old European times. I don't have to deal with all the issues blacks or asians or arabs or females have to deal with.
Jump a bit forward to now; look at the age I live in. I live in an age just technologically advanced enough that I can live in ideal comfort: air conditioning, electricity, running water, the internet. I can communicate with anyone in the world in a matter of seconds because of this thing. Space exploration is already possible! We've done it! Air travel, cars, trains, boats I can go anywhere on this planet in a matter of hours. Yet, I live in an age that's still ripe for discovery, still able to entertain all the futuristic imagination I have. I live in an age on the cusp of so many new discoveries it's ridiculous. I could discover an invent a method for faster than light travel, I could still find other life in space, I know just enough about the physics of this universe that I can use all that to make a revolutionary discovery.
Heck, even in the range of philosophy and ideals, this era is on the cusp of new human interaction. Slavery is long gone, and we're slowly getting rid of racism. Now gays are being accepted, heck, we're starting to legalize gay marriage! That's great! And religion, oh, we've long past the age of religious domination in the lives of everyone. I'm an atheist, I don't believe and I quite frankly think most of religion is sickening. I won't get into that but you hear and can see every day how many people are beginning to think for themselves. Not saying that they didn't already or that religion kept them from it, but they don't think of God every time anything happens. Personally that's progress in my book. They worship without all the nasty "you're going to hell if you don't do as I do" stuff. Well, starting to.
Sometimes, oh just sometimes I think how my situation is just a little too good to be true. Such a rich underdog history and yet I'm in the position to make this world mine. Assuming, of course, I didn't create it myself.
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