Sunday, October 6, 2013

Hysteria Is Hysterical: The Irony of It



Often, too often, the people of the present look to the past and laugh. We look at their folly, their ineptness at combating the inevitable turns that human nature cause, their lack of technology, and their outdated beliefs, and scoff. We scoff, but what we fail to realize is that we, too, are imperfect, ignorant,  still blind to all the knowledge the universe still holds. We may be a little less blind, that is true, but we are still only seeing such an insignificant amount of the picture. We, too, have grave errors facing our time, that have simple solutions, if only we let go of our time's channeled view. Our future generations will surely belittle us for that. They'll say then what we do now: "Why didn't they do this? Why didn't they do that? I wouldn't have been such a moron. LOL." Or maybe we don't say it, but many of us certainly think it. Or worse, deep down, we secretly believe it. We assume that facing the same challenges, we will learn from the errors of our forefathers and do better, be better. But will we truly? Sometimes I wonder, because if the world becomes an unwarranted sphere of mania, due to such things as the swine flu, then how will it react to World War III? When the witch trials span the whole globe, and countries instead of people are at stake, will we be able to fight human nature, or will we be at the mercy of history's patterns?
WORLD WAR III (Alien Invasion)

2 comments:

  1. All of your stuff is just so...hmmm...powerful. I love how you started really broad and only brought in The Crucible at the end. Instead of only focusing on The Crucible, I paid attention to what you were saying. Also, that's such an interesting way to look at it--to expand the witch trials to the entire world and challenge how people of our time would look at it.

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  2. I like your Doctor Who alien invasion picture! Your post ended on a foreboding note, and I got chills when I imagined the possible futuristic types of hysteria. As you said, people are often subject to hindsight bias (the "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomena). Truth always becomes apparent after the fact.

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