The mind of mankind

"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create." -José Ortega y Gasset
Is there any point to this hurricane of activity that is modern man? Some would argue that there is, others that there should be, and some still that there never has been nor never will be. I myself for one am completely undecided. I've done a lot of looking into the matter, and there is just too much passion and brilliance applied to the subject to ever come up with a definitive answer. What do we see when we look back in the social evolution as described in human history? In a word- conflict. Humans seem to know of no other way to develop and progress without coming into conflict with others. It has always been will, faith and passion that have driven us like a herd of cattle to our current impasse. Here we stand with all options open to us, every possibility a path, our tomorrows limited only by our capacity for imagination. Yet we still see the primordial engine of conflict driving humanity like some sadistic shepard. The wealthiest most powerful group of people on Earth is necessarily the most aggressive. Thus is it no surprise that even a country founded on the soundest of humanist principals has now become a force that the whole world must either follow or fear. It is the nature of human development for us to crash together like atoms, only to then find some new balance. I think suicide is nothing more than finding oneself in a situation were a lack of conflict externally leads to you waging war against yourself (this would be supported by the fact that mellow Sweden has the higest suicide rate). Every time I hear someone respond to an issue (newspeak for conflict) with 'I don't care, don't know or are too busy' it feels like having my faith in humanity bitch slapped. How is it even possible to delude yourself into thinking that a neutral possession is even possible? We stand in the dust of millions, with their war cries echoing in our ears, evidence of their struggles and achievements everywhere; yet we find the nerve to be disinterested! Were it not for the masses of the Global South, that are still beyond the reach of false learning, I would think that there was no hope. It is an immense comfort to me that some people still have a relationship to the earth, still value community over commodities, and still posses passion worthy of existence. I don't begrudge the Northern Peoples for their attempt at making the world suit their own needs, such was the way things played out and we must accept that if we ever seek to move beyond it. One thing that their new mode of conflict precipitated was to change the world from a series of small regional conflicts into one gigantic battle royal for the fate of mankind. Despite the 500 years of murder, rape and theft that defined it, we seem to have finally reached a plateau of understanding where we must admit that we are all in this together. The fates of us all have now become one, no need to argue about it, already done. Our fundamental need for conflict has propelled us into an era that has removed many of the cultural distinctions that was the basis for the enmity of the past. Scramble as the petty leftover leaders from the last century might, they have unleashed forces they can't possibly control, but can destroy. It all boils down to whether or not we have learned anything from what has and is taking place amongst us homo sapiens. Can we reconcile our capacity for creation with a proclivity for conflict, or have our tools become to terrible to control?
"Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths." -Carl Gustav Jung