by Travis Rent

Created on: August 10, 2009   Last Updated: August 11, 2009

I am the sum of a progressive thought, documenting the advancements in consciousness since the beginning. My objective is to gain an understanding of what this universe calls, humanity. However, judging by the average human, your definitive word for the whole of a species leaves for too many technicalities for my taste; instead I will call what Webster defines as, the quality or state of being human, by my most logical grouping of words that effectively describe your population, dogmatic schools of thought that differentiate each other leaving every fragment of the whole in a category it may (or may not) best be fitted into.

Good evening my newly captivated audience.
While coming up with this title I was flipping through a fitting description of the progress of your worlds political field's written by a man known as George Orwell. In the essay, George reveals the basic cycles of the class struggle. Be it the fault of Orwells imagination or the observation of some metaphysical magnet leading people through the same cycles of poverty and prosperity; one only has to look around their neighborhood to see which category their families likely fall under. The high class have always lived in bigger boxes. And given the responsibilities a member of the high class may (or may not) have, it seems appropriate that their boxes are bigger; that way, it appears, they don't have to go outside of the box as much, they can almost... box themselves into a tight, protected corner in their minds I mean houses. While the high class maintains an ego-maniacally unhealthy relationship with their mirror, the rest of the world is maintaining the businesses that the high class assigns them to. Just for the record, I certainly hope I don't reflect my job.

The second two major influences to attribute separatism in humankind are confounding. I will attempt to explain, but they are even grosser inventions of the human mind than any fathomable approximation can measure. I believe the first term to come along was "nationality." This is where it gets confusing; the second term was "race" Now nationality was based on imaginary lines separating territory for confused races of people afraid of different races of people. What confuses me is that people seemed to agree that they were different from the other races, but they still hadn't figured out that they were different from their own race. The human race, or "races," are now forced into more categories that don't necessarily describe the individual. Now we have three categories broken up into an indeterminable shredder feeding into indeterminable slots for each different ethnicity I'm glad this is just a metaphor.

I have nothing to say for sexism, the first separating factor to affect humankind. My reasons are mainly elitist as I do not believe it is worth my time to argue with the logic of the Neanderthals. What I can say is that after five thousand years of a race to develop, if one still cannot overcome the oldest of prejudice's then the intelligence of the group subscribing to the old idea must be put into question. Personally I cannot fathom maintaining an old idea for five thousand years. However, the donkey-like stubbornness of humans has stood with its ass high in the air for a longer time than I will ever know.

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