We have arrived at another Labor Day. This one is 2014 years A.D. How did we get here? Since we have been recording time, how have we managed to make it all the way to this day? After all, there have been many opportunities for the story of humanity to end many times over during the last couple thousand years. But we are still here, carrying on.
We have survived plagues, famines, wars, and natural disasters. So far, we have not been global victims to the nuclear disaster many predicted 69 years ago. We have dealt with the bubonic plague, Ebola, HIV, and so far, we are victorious. Curiosity drove us to develop the process and methods of education, allowing us to discover ways with which to deal with these, and other maladies.
For the most part, we remain healthy and continue to evolve as a species. At our universities and colleges, we continued to study and learned even more about our environment. We taught ourselves how to navigate the globe; we learned enough to teach ourselves how to fly; and we reached beyond the confines of our atmosphere and found our way to the moon!
Pretty impressive, huh? With everything we have achieved, we still have a lot of work to do.
While we have managed to navigate anywhere in the world, on the land or in the skies, down into the depths of the ocean and beyond, we still have not figured out how to live with ourselves. This is the most important thing we have to work on. We have to figure out how to get along.
We still have problems, such as different nations figuring out how to war with one another, drugs and drug trafficking, welfare, extremely high taxes, hunger, homelessness, and more. After all these years, we are still dealing with the race issue. You would think Ferguson, MO would never have happened in these modern times. Wasn’t the social action the mid-1960s supposed to fix all of our social ills?
It seems as though we still have the same problems humans had a long time ago. There remains strife between the rich and the poor, the black and the white, those with land and those without, the common man and the aristocrats, to name only a few. It seems true that things remain the same, no matter how much they seem to change.
Now, here it is, Labor Day 2014. One wonders what this year will bring and how things will be on Labor Day 2015. I’ll bet it will be much of the same.
Might be time to start watching football…
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©2014 J. Clark
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