Serious Complaints of the 21st Century

My facetious complaints hold no substance because they're mostly jokes. So, we're going to get serious for a moment. To be honest, my greatest complaint is that we've been squandering our potential as humans.

Instead of moving forward, we seem to be moving backwards. Fucked up, isn't it?

Well, then.

Among my serious complaints are: robots, flying cars, space travel that the average person can access. In all seriousness, science and technology are my biggest complaints. Fiction should reflect reality, to some extent, and sci-fi has set a standard that could have been met had we tried. Effort is the key to almost everything, isn't it?

Let's put it this way: For centuries, man had been obsessed with flight- imitating birds, and theorized and wrote about flying but could never experience it. People tried and failed miserably, or never tried and only wrote. Today, it just seems like all we do is talk and talk about how we're going to cure diseases and discover new worlds. All we're really doing is waxing poetic. This cartoon best illustrates what I'm trying to say.

History of Flight by Abstruse Goose

Sad, isn't it?

Human evolution has already reached a standstill, or so it would appear. There are no more predators that we can't easily destroy. Perhaps that's the area in which we've made significant progress- destruction. We can destroy things in greater numbers than we could before. But that's not really good progress is it? The fact that disease continues to claim countless lives shows we're going wrong.

If I were to summarize my serious complaints of the 21st century in one sentence, it would be this: My greatest complaint is that as humans, we've been wasting our potential.

And it's true. We could have met every goal we set for ourselves but something happened that caused us to care less and less and embrace oblivion, or smile as we fall further and further into the downward spiral. We could be greater than we are but we're letting ourselves fall back on the successes of the past that it's given us some horrible sense of entitlement.

We're so used to riding the coattails of those who have succeeded in the past that we don't feel the need to do anything which is heartbreaking because anything that anyone tries to do is drowned by the ocean of apathy generated by those who are content with destruction and laziness.

We're going wrong.