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If you were to come across the average person from the 1950′s, and ask a series of questions involving, oh, I don’t know, medicine, how much do you think they would know in comparison? What about if you were to compare your knowledge of history, books, etc.? 50 years ago, information was not nearly as accessible as today. The average person knew what they were told, and what they read. Today however, is a whole other story. The human race has learned to investigate, question, and in doing so, created more than just the wheel in 50 years.

We’ve reached a point in our evolution where we’ve begun to evolve on our own, via teaching our experience and expertise to the next generation. In doing so, the human race has been able to make gigantic leaps in technology within a very short time. An abundance of population greatly increases the productivity of such advances. I call this, “Synthetic Evolution” or, “Man-Made Evolution.”

We as a species have been able to advance faster than natural evolution can keep up. Perhaps it is a specific point within the past 6,000 years that brings upon this change in the human race. We have seen the creation of agriculture, the discoveries of metals and clay, the understanding of governing, all being major leaps of the human race. With the creation of the technology age, where information is available to anyone at any time, we’ve been able to further ourselves more so in the past 50 years than we ever have since before recorded history.

So what is next? We’ve discovered how to harness nuclear fission, electricity, mass production, transportation, space exploration. Where does the human race go after this? Perhaps it is time to start thanking mankind for discoveries, instead of an invisible man in the sky, and delve further into the mechanics of our natural selves without the god element. Maybe it’s time for world peace, which in turn would only increase our goals of expanding our knowledge. But…

If only it were in us to be civil with one another. Humans really are just animals. We still hold ourselves as proud mammals, whom only want to survive and continue our species. If we feel the slightest danger to ourselves or family, we fight. It’s just our primal nature. World peace is not within arms length nor ever will be. It is compromise that will be our biggest battle.

This Synthetic Evolution of ours really is humanity’s largest struggle to come. What we are becoming capable of doing is something extraordinary, and to have it all come crashing down because of a holy war, or a political debate, would be ludicrous. This is where we must learn to compromise for the sake of humanity’s continued exploration.

Lets take it all in stride.

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