At one time or another you must have thought that something is wrong with the world; it is a rare human being who has not. That thought is not triggered by a terrible accident or a horrible natural disaster. The sight of bodies strewn about at the scene of a highway accident or of large swaths of land under flood=waters or of entire cities flattened by tornadoes or a hurricane, does not cause us to think that something is wrong with the world. We understand that accidents happen and that sometimes they can be avoided by being more careful in behavior and practice. We understand the power of nature and that we can avoid being affected by its devastating power by building more prudently. But even when human action contributes to such devastation we don’t blame it on some inherent human failing. We reserve these moments for the sight of a single child who was brutally assaulted by an uncaring adult, of hundreds or thousands of humans who were cut down in the prime of life by weapons of mass destruction. These are the kinds of stories that cause us to say that something must be wrong with the world. And in times like these we wish we had the answer - any answer - that would bring an end to such pain and hurt.

The underlying philosophy that would have us blaming the black community for the problems in the black community is flawed. The rest of nature does not operate according to this philosophy and they certainly have a much better track record than we do. Not even our bodies follow this philosophy. The spleen does not blame the heart for having a heart attack. The very idea is absurd. Sometimes it seems that we all were on recess when school was in.

It is never the prerogative of one member of an organism to destroy another member of the organism. That prerogative belongs to the organism. You are neither your brother's keeper nor his executioner.

We need to start behaving as if the human race does exist and that it is a living organism. An essential quality of every living organism is that it heals itself in an attempt to maintain its homeostasis and existence. We are not outsiders on a mission to save the human race. We are part of the human race being used by the human race to maintain its existence.

Nothing upsets us more than when we think that other people are ignoring the facts. We see this as a roadblock on the road to progress. But we don't realize that we are all guilty of the very thing we all despise. The reason we don't realize this is because we have imposed a narrow interpretation on what it means to ignore the facts. In fact, in conversation to ignore the facts does not really mean to ignore the facts. It really means to act or to take a position contrary to the facts. Consider this example.

It is axiomatic that science is something that humans do, in the sense that we do science. We have known this from the beginning of the scientific age. We all accept this fact but it is so obviously true that we ignore it, meaning that we do not pay any scientific attention to it. We don't ask any questions about it because there is no chance that it can be proven to be false. But it is a Trojan Horse.

While we have not been looking this axiom has transmogrified into a belief that only things that humans do should be considered to be science. Because we ignored the original fact we have tacitly accepted this modification as fact without testing it. It is obviously false to claim that science is NOT something that humans do. That is seen as the opposite of the original axiom. But no one seems to think that the modification is also the opposite of the original axiom. The result of ignoring the original fact is that we have also ignored this new fact and any possible effect it could have on how we develop as humans. So, we accept it as true without even knowing what it really means to say that science is only things that humans do can be science.

We feel an obligation to review things that we consider to be science because we understand that human error can affect our conclusions. That works well and we often discover errors others have made. But what about things humans have not done, but things humans have thought or accepted; like the belief that science is only things humans have done?