What is it that makes us humans? Is it the ability to walk on two feet, to use our hands in ways animals cannot, or that we can build massive structures, fly without wings or breathe underwater without gills? Nah, not at all. Sure, these things make us unique... But we wouldn't be where we are if evolution didn't get our brains to the level they are today. Aside from being the most sophisticated beings we know, we are also a sociable species. We naturally strive for the presence of others, and with the initial forming of relationships at the morning of our history we set on a long journey which eventually led to forming societies. Today the connection between humans is even greater than in the past - we are connected by the Internet, every day we can find out what happens even thousands of miles away. And the speed it's happening at is in some ways more astonishing than the speed of light. In the last couple of years we have progressed more than in the last two millennia. We know we could have done it earlier; we've always had the potential. Humans haven't changed almost at all throughout that time; there was just always something that stood in the way of fast progress. So? Are we finally there? Is this the age we have been waiting for? Endless possibilities in travelling, discovery, invention, science... No. We are not. Even after all those years and all the progress, one problem which as old as men still prevails. Thinking. The very essence of what we are, that defines us as the most sophisticated beings we know, is alas at the same time, our biggest fault. To be more exact, it's the lack of thinking that worries me.

Pondering vs. Fattening

We are living in like a fast-food restaurant. We rush to do a million things every day, and in the middle of all that, we have hardly time to stop and ponder about stars, philosophy or the likes. So we feed our brains with prepared food all the time, we are growing fatter and fatter while we are unable to digest properly, our brain simply can't keep up and decide what it needs. We are blind. And that is sadly, what defines the society of today - unthinking, rushing, feeding itself with useless junk every day, even though somewhere deep inside we sense that there is something wrong, as the audience of a circus we feel that the animals, who perform amazing stunts must have gone through endless hours of torture, all the while living in tiny cages, being fed bad food but we love the old razzle dazzle... We desire to see the show, we want to drown ourselves in endless hours of fun... But then, does a bubble of air around your head save you from drowning when you're on the bottom of the ocean? Instead of trying your best, using your brain and accepting that the only option is to rush to the surface... You just can't give up on your bubble.

I wish it could all be just a nice analogy, but this is all real. We trouble our minds by the fact that artificial intelligence is unachievable; we desire to create robots that can act like us naturally without programming and we are also scared from this when watching movies, in which robots have rebelled and taken control over humanity. But who says it hasn't happened yet? It is here... we all know it and we all want as much of it as we can get - money.

The Very Significant Coin

Imagine me (tall, muscular, blond guy, blue eyes, haha) taking a coin out of my pocket. Look at the coin. What are your initial reactions? Mine is that I need much more than that to buy myself a pack of cigarettes. Yours may be that you need much more to buy a present to your kid. And some of you may want to hit me in the head and take the coin from me, because you have nothing to eat... Woah, are you serious? You have already gone through a long thought process and that coin hasn't even blinked. It's sitting on my palm peacefully, completely oblivious to the world around it. Now, we know that the coin doesn't want, hate or love, because it is unable to. But the question is... Is it unable to, or, simply, it just doesn't have to? If I put down the coin onto a table and left, chances are someone would soon pass by and take it. That one little coin can trigger so many processes in our heads. It commands us without even making the effort to do so. While we fight and get stressed, commit suicide or murder to gain wealth, money patiently waits. And it doesn't matter if it's only a coin... A finger is a very small part of the human body, yet losing a finger would prove to be a significant loss to anybody. We ask God: "If you are God, why do you let bad things happen? If you have created us and have power over everything, why do you let catastrophes and war happen? Are you really God?" So folks... Are we really humans if we allow an unthinking and stupid coin to make us commit crazy things? Creation is slowly becoming the creator, the puppeteers are becoming puppets.

And simply because we are unable to control our thought process or lack to use it the way we should. That is the biggest problem of society nowadays and actually has always been. I am afraid that I won't be alive to see this change for the better. It is like looking for your glasses when they're on your head. People scream for better lives while possessing the tool that would allow them to make their lives better. Is it only me, or something is seriously wrong here...?

About the author: David Uzsak