What I Would Like You to Understand

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Mountains come to messengers, not the other way around. I am an observer of the universe; a scientist, not a messenger from God. I only discover and invent tools for more effective and efficient discoveries, and to help human life and all life thrive and survive. I am an engineer of mental and social constructs, as well as policies, programs, organizations, and institutions. I am a sociologist, political analyst, and social scientist. I am not a prophet, and I'm certainly not a Messiah (just a very naughty boy; points if you get the reference). I'm not going to fix the problems. I'm hoping to help others move around and understand how to adapt themselves mentally, physically, and socially around the problems as they come up so we can all survive. 

With that in mind, here is an example from  nature: fire ants do not scatter when they are flooded, nor do they significantly change themselves or the conditions they are in. They work together to form themselves into a floating structure that is highly buoyant and preserves their own and the colony's life. They change themselves partially with each other to make something new, and thus all survive the natural disasters that arise from external and internal factors. 

I hope humanity remembers this lesson in all time periods from here on out. It's not always your personal self that matters.  At least, not your physical body anyway.  It's how you adapt your personal self to match the social and environmental world(s) that you and your body inhabit for everyone's improvement (including your own).  You will not change the potential for negative or destructive things from happening in this world.  You will not save your friends and family members from death, nor is it necessarily a good thing for them, you, or us to have them live forever in their decaying husks of skin, bone, and muscle.  You will not stop change, nor will everything bow to your conception and desire for how the world can and should work.  You can, however, learn to alter yourself and your social and environmental systems gradually for improved outcomes and well-being, with the only sacrifice being the decayed garbage of what doesn't actually help, or may hinder, our individual, social, and environmental well-being.  Even one individual's failure or success, if taken in the right context in the right time and place, can shape and reshape the world for better or worse, and even if they are just one lower-level individual in a larger organization.  One person's behavior in a certain time, place, and context can influence the world, even if they're not "high" in the hierarchy of the worlds' social orders. 

Please note, this all can be made more definite with a set of studies into what is biologically, culturally, and socially significant for society's well-being (either as an aid or hindrance).  I realize we could argue the definition of garbage until we're sick of the argument.  My hypothesis is that some values yield more helpful outcomes than others, and do a better job at identifying what humans and human societies really need for their well-being, physically, psychologically, socially, and environmentally.  This is partially a dialogue that we produce through a never-ending conversation among ourselves, partially an exploration of undiscovered facts about ourselves and our place in the universe as a group and individual.  Nature and natural law works as a dictatorship that we can never directly control without other consequences happening as a result of any change we make.  We can either learn it, develop superior tools for understanding and working with it, make those tools comprehensible to the average/median/lower-skilled human, and carry on together in whatever environmental/cosmological experience(s) we face.  We may not be all equal in skill or talent, and we're certainly different across the skill levels too in preferences, talents, and inclinations.  But I'm convinced we're all significant, even those who make an actually worse imprint on the world for others.  We just need to treat them and their outputs differently, depending on the case and context of the situation.

So, adapt well, and be kind.  That's all I'm hoping you understand from this.