Why Nothing Hapens

People possess a very remarkable power: they can act, in the many numbers that there are, to solve a problem. There are many severe, immediate, and very present problems, and people do react to them. They can reacte in very strange or dangerous ways, and cause much destruction, but they can also make things far better.

The effect diminishes with the failing force of the evil. The small problems that face the world are not met with the force of the whole human race. However, the appearance and existence of evil are very different things. Some of the worst of the worlds problems are simply too distant to be seen. Then there are those that are clouded by the very experiences of those who face them.

This would not be such a damaging effect if not for the very slow moving spirit of the human race. It is one very large entity, too large to adjust quickly. An individual may change quickly, but the whole of the human race is unmoving except but slowly. And so in the absence of a direct threat, people do not respond.

One possible solution to this would be to conjure up a direct threat and motive people to action. Another would be to draw upon people's sense of loyalty and patriotism. But such insentives can be horribly misdirected. They would more appropriately remain no more than part of the human race that is, and not the part that wills or does.

There is another hope, and that is in the tendency of people to immitate eachother. If people can be accostomed to acting at the persistent instead of the threatening problems, it may be possible, if not to change human nature, to change the context in which it lies.

Ellbur Wiki

A blog is limitting is some ways. To accomodate things that will not fit this environment I have made a wiki:
Ellbur Wiki. It is in a very primitive stage, but it is possible to edit and add pages.
I will still post to this blog.

A Thought

I have decided something, but I am no quite sure what it is. I have made one change to represent it: I now believe I have a purpose in life, I just don't know what it is. This shaded decision still reveals something about itself:

The purpose is above myself. I know this without a doubt. Its existence does not depend on mine. It is also a change from something. Specifically, the change is still unknown to me. But it is not, as I said of the Meaning of Life, placed carefully beyond my reach.

Because it is above me, it is something that could be a purpose of all people. It does not wish to depend on perception; it is not reletive to any manifestation of the senses. There are many people in the world, most have never seen eachother, and yet somehow there is an emergent motion of human actions. There are components of the convergence that we cannot control, but there may be components that are collective and cumulative.