T Dave
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Posted - 2004.03.04 00:27:00 -
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Edited by: T Dave on 04/03/2004 10:48:36
When will it be that people will finally get past their self-obsessed, patriotic, nationalistic views to see that we - all of us - are, really, no different from anyone else?
I long for that day. That day when the whole of the EVE World will sit back in their respective ships and stare at the wonder of all the millions upon billions of stars and planets - all different shapes, sizes, lifespans - and realize the simple truth:
We are all one. Whatever superior force there may be out there is ruling over us all. Our personal beliefs and rivalry stand for nothing in the grand scheme of things. We should not be fighting each other for our own, petty beliefs, but fighting for all of our rights, as one being, the one being we actually are.
That is the day I dream of.
But my dream has pangs of horror in it - a dream on the brink of becoming a nightmare. For I fear that, in our current climate, this dream, should it be achieved, would incur awful bloodshed, unlike anything seen for a long, long time, if ever.
That is not the way it needs to be. But it is the way I fear it will be, for the simple reason that, on all sides of this equation, we have too many prominent figures who favour strength over wisdom and understanding. This much history has shown us throughout the millenia that have passed before us. And every time it has been proven that allowing brute force to take the reigns and lead us does not work. But every reaction produces an equal and opposite reaction, and we can all take hope that the one power that seems to try and threaten all that I dream for is, like so many failed ones before it, an Empire. Every Empire has it's day, and I am glad to say I truly believe the Amarr Empire has seen it's own. The Empire is a system of the past, not a path to the future.
And the end to such empires is the first, and most difficult hurdle we all must overcome in order to progress towards a united society. But without that boundary being crossed we cannot, realistically, even begin to focus our attentions on the actions and prominence of the power-crazed individuals who threaten every move we make. The two go hand in hand, everywhere.
But, what point am I really trying to make?
The Amarr race and traditions do not matter. The Gallentean race and traditions do not matter. The Minmatar race and traditions do not matter. The Caldari and Jovean race and traditions do not matter. The only thing that truly matters is that we can realize that we are indeed all the same, and by working together we an only strengthen our own positions.
I do appreciate many will find this hard to accept and leave me open to much abuse/ridicule for sounding out such feelings at such an early age. But I feel it needed to be said, and those who rise to abuse me are simply proving themselves to be an example of all I have layed out previously: you jump to the defence of your own customs whilst disregarding everyone else's. Why, oh why, does it have to be that way? Have we really all become too blind to see that we are on a path to self destruction?
I shall leave this point there, for I fear I may have digressed at times when it was unnecessary. And for this I apologise. This was not a planned speech, this is just thr writings of a young man, frustrated with the self-degenerating spiral the world he cares so much for seems to have got itself into.
And so I leave you to disect and abuse my argument.
Take care of yourselves and your fellow man my brothers and sisters.
TD
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Memoirs of a Tortured Soul
Chapter 1
"You may say that I'm a dreamer, bu |