(Bare with me as the usual volcano of sudden and seemingly random thoughts compete to find space in this angst-laden emotional outpouring of verbal questioning and the self-therapeutic search for understanding....)

There's no denying or getting around the glaringly obvious fact that there's something seriously wrong.

Lately, no more than mere hours seem to pass until "news" of some new worry pops up. This isn't the stuff of "conspiracy theorists" either. You don't have to talk to Joe Tinfoil Hat to figure out that the global financial state alone is as stable as its track-record is spotless. Turning away and remaining blissfully ignorant seems increasingly impossible in the face of what everyone is seeing, feeling, and living in one form or another. Africa may still be starving as it always seems to have, and the Middle East is rife with political and religious struggles that the media would rather have us dismiss and deny the importance of by categorizing the entire stage by stage meltdown as "age-old riddles that no one can solve". The real cause for worry, however, goes much deeper down the proverbial "rabbit-hole".

More than mutually-shared individual problems, the modern dilemma facing our entire species isn't mere continuation of ancient problems that have persisted in varying degrees through the ages. Rather, it seems increasingly evident that it's a case of consummation of the age-old skeletons in the closet, long buried and never dealt with or properly explained.

The culture of modern science - the beating heart and the modern pride and joy of our perceived post-World-War-1 tradition of human progress and prosperity - focuses primarily on what we think we see/feel, reducing existence and humanity to a basic simplistic 'animalism', the distractions and delusions of which culminate in an endless cycle of "pleasure vs. pain" scenarios with an ultimately subconscious nihilistic view on life for all human beings, mutually shared by almost all who helplessly play into it. This cyclical system drives our modern unchecked free-market capitalism, the system that is rotten to the core of the society that upholds its nonexistent morals and values without due diligence or investigation of its questionable morals and etiquette, continued validity, and (most importantly) its many overlooked flaws. Materialism is rampant, the spirit is either deemed nonexistent or unimportant, and humans are seen as mere sheep to be used by those who pretend to represent their interests (though, ironically, dumbing down the population en masse and forcing a herd mentality of "following for fear of falling behind" is just as much to blame as is the willing perpetuation of that attitude by the majority of humanity in the everyday life of most members of the species).

It's no wonder, then, that we're losing this battle of nature vs. nurture, because as much as our propensity (or 'innate potential') for "good" may be genetically imprinted into each and every one of us, what happens after the birth process is an uncontrolled spiral down into chaos led by our highly effective mass-media-televised subliminal teachers. A collective awakening has yet to materialize and subsequently mobilize the core of the population towards understanding the problem at greater depth and learning how to deal with the issue(s) conclusively. Until then, some of us will scream bloody murder (at least in a figurative sense, if not literally), shout at the top of our lungs, panic and flail and kick and "info-bomb" our way into our peers' heads and psyche, attempting to lay the foundations for a greater understanding of everything that desperately demands the public's attention and care. When all is said and done, however, even an admission by the powers that be of their orchestration of the recent 'financial crisis', or their involvement-in or execution-of 9/11 as a false-flag operation, or other honest disclosures of long-sought truths, might ultimately make a no more than a dent in the great wall of mass ignorance and complacent complicity.

As such, here's hoping that the better majority of our basic nature and the well-meaning minority of our nurturing process coalesce and conspire against the greatest self-serving conspirators in human history, turning the tide and saving our species....  (Discuss)