maybe ‘you’ did not realize that ‘your’ choices have a huge impact on the way human societies change, grow, unfold and evolve. Firstly ‘you’ are an individual, which is why ‘I’ is the first person. ‘You’ are naturally second person to ‘I’, and anyone outside of ‘us’ is the third person, not matter how many ‘they’ are.
The difference between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is whether ‘I’ consider ‘them’ to be inclusive in ‘us’ or exclusively separate from ‘us’ that ‘they’ remain as ‘them’.
So, how do ‘I’ decide to do this. Firstly, ‘I’ can make a list of differences and similarities. Then, ‘I’ could ask ‘you’ what ‘your’ opinion is, and maybe together ‘we’ can make ‘it’ ‘our’ decision. Ideally ‘we’ can find a way to make ‘them’ inclusive in ‘us’.
However, if ‘I’ choose to see things very differently from ‘you’ then their is a risk ‘us’ breaking and becoming ‘you’ and ‘I’ again. Should ‘you’ and ‘them’ see eye to eye, then ‘they’ will accept ‘you’ as ‘their’ own – one of ‘them’. What changes between ‘you’ alone and ‘you’ with others shall only be that ‘their’ opinions and ‘your’ opinion become ‘your’ collective opinion that is ‘yours’ alone. (‘they’ naturally have many opinions, however, if you also have many opinions ‘they’ shall also become ‘yours’)
So, let ‘us’ not let ‘us’ to break, that ‘we’ can remain as ‘us’ without seeing things as ‘you’ and ‘I’. Hopefully, together we can find away of making ‘us’ and ‘them’ join together to be more of ‘us’. Why? because ‘they’ are the third person in this situation. ‘We’ should not see people as third in any case. ‘Anything’, and ‘everything’, in ‘anything’, is all part of ‘everything’.
Therefore, no matter what ‘we’ may think of ‘them’, and no matter what ‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’ thinks of ‘them’, they will always be part of ‘us’. Because ‘me’, ‘you’ and ‘your’ kin – all of ‘you’, and with ‘him’, ‘her’ and ‘it’, and ‘them’ too, ‘we’ are all in this story – this world – this reality – this universe – ‘together’.
Since ‘we’ are all in this ‘together’ ‘we’ make choice about how ‘we’ experience this reality. Allow ‘me’ to present to ‘you’ a view of two possible future for ‘us’. Why? Because often times ‘us’ as people have a tendency to blindly follow each other to detriment of ‘us’. Some of ‘us’ like to take a step back because ‘we’ remember that each of ‘us’ individually can have a different view point of where ‘we’ are heading. ‘I’ believe, as do others, that sometimes ‘we’ all need some more perspective of things.
a fork in the road
allow ‘me’ to describe to ‘you’ and ‘we’ can imagine ‘together’. Imagine a future where technology as become the make up of human society. ‘Everything’ is run by artificial intelligence. ‘He’ and ‘she’, and ‘you’ and ‘them’ all us technology so much so that people begin to get linked into the global network of artificial intelligence. ‘You’ or ‘them’ no longer have anything private in ‘your’ lives. There exists no freedom away from the watchful eye of the system.
‘Everything’ is controlled and monitored; from ‘your’ mood to ‘your’ desires. Like cybernetic drones, ‘people’ think, behave and do what ‘someone’ else wants ‘them’ to (notice at this point ‘I’ have separated ‘myself’ from the situation). In this future, their is a system that require all of ‘us’ to submit to it in order that ‘we’ see ‘ourselves’ as individuals where it is all about ‘me’ in ‘my’ world.
However, ‘my’ world is not ‘mine’. Neither is ‘your’ world ‘yours’. It is unlikely that ‘his’ world is ‘his’, or that ‘her’ world is ‘hers’. ‘Its’ world might be ‘its’ own world, depending on what ‘it’ is. if ‘your world is not ‘yours’, and ‘their’ world is not ‘theirs’, then ‘your worlds are definitely not ‘yours’, not matter how similar or different ‘they’ are. This means that ‘our’ worlds are not, and so ‘our’ world is not ‘ours’.
The second image is of a future where ‘we’ choice to keep ‘it’ out of ‘us’ in order to keep ‘our’ humanity, that ‘it’ may not become soulless from the inclusion of technology. Extraterrestrials would refer to ‘us’ as an ‘it’ instead of ‘us’ as ‘them’ – ‘we’.