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On LJ i use to wonder and muse, placeing great amounts of thought to what constituted such grandiose concepts like "human knowledge". What constituted human knowledge? as if it could be measured, quntified, understood.

If the speices were to be blasted into the stone age, taking shelter in caves what would it retain? I had hopes. I used to say that human potential was infinite potential, that it just had to be harnessed and inspired.

I would be outraged when people were murdered or rapped just to satiate another persons base and animal desires. It was a waste. A terribel thoughtless waste. All that that person could have ever been, ever acomplished, ever loved, dreamed or thought was snuffed out. and why? So that someone else, for a passing moment, could get himself off on pain or fear, and suffer no reprcutions. It was a disgrace and it spoke lowly of the species.

But now ... I'm looking back. I'm seeing things. A time when people ate the bark off of trees so they could pay the tief of ediable food they grew to someone else. When wenter after Winter humans would watch their husbands, wives, children die of malnutrition, and still consitently pay. How many people today knows what a shoe taste like? I wonder myslef, but what I wondered about most was how could they bear it?
We precive it as an unatural injustice. How could generation after generation of human beings live such miserable and subservant lives.

I read Aquariam's of Pyongyang. I read about the camps and what they did to people. How the inmates were so hungry that they thought and did terrible things just to survive. I am aware that human meat is sold on the black market their and that two million people are dieing. I got my answer. To all my questions.

The answer to the complex human equation for the enduring of prolonged and unyielding suffering is this: Because it was all they ever knew.

It was all the peasents ever knew. It's what their parents knew, and what the accapted growing up. To them it was right, and to not yeild was the unatural injustice. Human knowledge is painfuly subjective.

Hungry we are like animals, desperate. Well feed we are monsters. And if you were to bomb people into the stone age and they lived in caves that is what human knowledge would be : the inside of a cave and the fear of open sky.

But it dosen't have to be as dark as all that. We can make it a better world. How. Human can shape human knowledge. If you entrust to your children concepts of truth, honor, freindship, and decency, as you would want them to have them, then I think the world might not be as bad off.