A Day Dreaming Metaphor

This post is simply another reflection of mine. It is one of my many enjoyable ventures below the surface of my mundane life.

I found myself departing from this plain of existence yet again yesterday, as I sat there attempting to study political science. As I stared off through the concrete walls of the study room I began to reflect on the progression of humankind. I did as I most often do. I used my humble eclectic knowledge of history, politics, culture and contemporary society to come up with a basic analogy for the progression that human cociety is slowly going through.

Now, I am not going to purport to explain why human beings as a whole naturally work towards progression. Instead I think it is safe to say that we simply do. It is in our nature and that is a good thing.

Ok, back to that metaphor, I sat there and envisioned society as a single human being. This person finds themselves in a building full of escalators running backwards reaching to unknown heights above. This person begins their journey a large out of shape bare foot creature but filled with a sort of unexplainable drive from within. This drive tells them that for some reason things are going to be better the higher they climb. So, they begin to climb the escalators. The initial climb is slow. The person is out of shape. However, as they climb higher they become more and more accustom to the gruelling task of climbing these escalators. They find themselves struggling and making it to a new plateau once and a while. Sometimes they find drives of inspiration that push them up these downward runnign excalators with ease. A problem arises when they decide they might be better off just staying at the same level they are at. They attempt to walk slowly on the escalator to stay in this same comfortable place. However, the constant effort eventually wears them down to the point where they tumble backwards to the last plateau.

This was one way I decided to dream about society. I found it difficult to explain why we feel the need to progress in terms of an ultimate goal. However, I found that it was intrinsically necessary to constantly do so. Perhaps it is the simple realization that there is a potential for a better society? When I speak about the motivation for progression I generalize and apply this to everyone. There are however a vast majority of people who wish to simple perpetuate the current state of affairs. In my opinion these are the people who cause our society to grow tiresome and tumble backwards. Whom might I be speaking about? In a generalized term I am speaking about the rich elite. These are just a few of the people which find radical change or even change at all to be negative. It is detrimental to their state of affairs. It poses a threat to the existing order and must be suppressed. But you know what? I think that the suppression doesn't come in a physical or confrontational sense but instead in the mere up keeping of the status quo. A lot of people speak about the New World Order as something to fear. However, I don't believe we should necessarily fear a radical change for the worse so much as we should fear the gradual degradation of our society by the stagnation caused by our lack of progression. Do not fear the New World Order so much so as you should fear the Same World Order. Gradual progression is natural and arguably required. Don't be coerced into believing conservatism is a positive thing. Perhaps for those who are well off now. But what about the rest of our friends? What about the rest of humanity? We owe it to them to not let things stagnate. Change is in order. The next plateau is only a little ways away.