Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Perfection

Why can't one simply appreciate one's own parents' effort in giving birth and raising another human being? Why do we seek perfection? It is perhaps only because we are not perfect which comes denial, prejudice, anger, distrust, and a plethora of emotions involving the playing of social and psychological games with one another. If we were all equal and no one is better or worse than another, then we would not possess any emotions, including the good ones like trust, love, courage. Likewise, I am not perfect. I am nowhere near flawlessness. I am human. Ergo, it is that human imperfection which drives me to search and reach for that ideal perfect reality, which obviously does not exist in this time and place. Without the search for perfection, there will reach a point of equilibrium, in which the world does not need to progress, there will be no purpose to live out one day and wait for the next. The speed of evolutionary progression is directly dependent on the level of desire for a perfect world. The more society seeks to have, the more society will produce and will get more efficient at it as time progresses. In a society where people are happy and desire little more than what they already have around them, social evolutionary progression slows. By chance if another society with a higher level of want happens to come across the less socio-evolutionarily developed society, then the latter would be at much disadvantage, ergo would be conquered by the former of the two societies. Thus is the beginning of war and a war to keep the most perfect race and society.

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