In my experience, people will never be happy with who you are or what you think.  There is no stance you can take without being a liar and a hypocrite that people will respect you for.   The world is a place of judgment, no matter who you are.  People always talk about sexism, racism, and any other –ism you can think of.  In reality, everyone is discriminated against.

          A long, long time ago Europe and the Middle East decided that it was religion that determined whom you hated and whom you loved, whom you killed and whom you saved, whom you married and whom you cursed.  This worked for a while, but then people started to realize that by warring with each other they would all eventually lose, so they withdrew their armies and hid in their fortresses.  After a while groups developed within the individual fortresses and the hate that had lay dormant came back again.  People just couldn’t be happy.  One of these groups decided that they would run to the “New World” and start their own fortress.  Well, after them groups kept coming and they sort of accepted each other.  This fad spread until the lines that once divided the world had been erased and redrawn so many times they hardly made sense. 

Everyone seemed ok with this decision to tolerate each other.  Religion was discarded and a new age of materialism began.  This too seemed ok to everyone until certain peoples realized the places they’d come to live on weren’t going to make them rich.  The only people who could be really happy were the ones who had invaded the “New World.”  They’d stumbled upon a land rich in resources and able to support a large work force.  More and more people came or were brought to the “New World.”  The rest of the world didn’t like the fact that these new kids on the block would be the major players in the new age of materialism.  The inhabitants of the resource-rich country thrived and the population ballooned.

So here the world was in this age of materialism, with people becoming richer or poorer and soon the new kids on the block were in power.  They were the richest and had a large amount of land and technology.  Unfortunately, the age of materialism did nothing to quell the hate that existed in humans.  The wars had continued, only during this age they were over material rather than religion.  These wars broke the ties that had once held some people together.  The lines that had been erased and redrawn in the past were now nothing short of illegible.  The small chunks that the world had been cut into were about to get even tinier.  Suddenly, the half of the population of the “New World” that no one had listened to demanded to be heard.  Women broke the disgraceful traditions that had been sent down through history and stood up.

With women becoming liberated, other groups that had been looked down upon wanted to be recognized also.  What used to be the “New World” was fraught with internal struggles as people wanted to be heard.  As we have been focusing on the “New World,” the rest of the world had been having similar but not identical problems.  Before long, people couldn’t regard their own brother without a certain degree of suspicion and antipathy.

After that lengthy history lesson from my point of view, we come to the present day.  The United States has, to me, become a microcosm of many of the world’s problems with regard to meaningless division.  No one is content with themselves or anyone around them.  Through the eyes of the majority, everyone is a potential enemy.  If we had any of the old-world wisdom left in us, you wouldn’t see people on street corners, begging.  If someone didn’t have enough for themself, a person who had too much would help them.  But rather than that, everyone must watch out for number one.

The world has become too cynical.  A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.  As a reaction to that nature of emptiness, people are greedy and self-centered, always looking to improve their environment.  Everyone is looking for a soul-mate who is exactly like them and will not judge them, but this will never be.  Tupac Shakur said, “Only God can judge me,” unfortunately anyone who has ever heard his name has already done that.  People don’t have to know you to judge you.  This is thanks to the inability of humanity to come together.  People are people and they will never be anything else, but by seeing someone or just hearing their name we begin sizing them up.  The world has been chopped into as many parts as there are people.

As my rant draws to a close I wish to express my extreme sorrow at the fact that this problem I have presented has no visible solution.  According to Christianity, we can fill this void in ourselves with God.  Unfortunately, there are a large number of people who will die before they become Christians.  In addition to this, Christianity itself is cut up into an innumerable number of sects.  Even when people seem to have found what we all are searching for, they are separated from not only the secular world but their religious counterparts as well.  In conlusion, I’d like to sum up humanity: hopeless.