We live in a cold world.

As a race, I think our prevailing attitude is that we're capable and mature enough to handle our own affairs. In this country we've this mentality that freedom is paramount to all other things.

I tend to think of humanity as errant children. We've rejected our higher powers, freeing ourselves from gods like children running from their parents. We've reached our hands out to take freedoms that may be more curse than blessing. We live in a world where we can select the traits of our children. We can alter our own genetics, change our lives to however we see fit. We can even use drugs to alter the makeup of our own personalities. However, we've done these things at cost, and we're entering a Brave New World.

The human mind craves the answer to questions, but also craves the mystery those questions pose. Any puzzle is intriguing until the answer is known - we are only entertained by crossword puzzles until we solve them, we are only interested in riddles until we know the answer. In this sense, the mysteries of the world capture our imagination until we are given the answers.

Look at the imagination of children that we lose as we get older. As kids, we're so entertained by the simplest of things. The flight of birds, the sunset in the sky, and all the other worldly miracles become little more than scientific curiosities as we age. We're no longer entranced by the mysteries of the world. Instead, the joy of seeing your child for the first time is replaced by the bored sensation one would expect on a delivery of a package. The aurora is reduced to the wavelengths of energy hitting the atmosphere. Everything is quantized, calculated, even down to our genes. What is happening?

We live in a world where robot planes spy on us, and fire missiles at our enemies. Death from above. We're moving towards a future where industry rules, and men of steel and electricity will take our jobs and our lives. We want ease of life, everything at our fingertips, but we've forgotten what it means to live.

Humanity strives to replace chaos with order, until our universe is entirely predictable. We fear the unknown. We fear uncertainty, we fear what we cannot control. But by moving towards a future where we can control everything, we're reducing our freedom at the same time. We need chaos. We need fear. We need those things that push us to be better people. We must learn to cope with that fear, instead of eliminating what we cannot control.

Turn life around. We cannot rely so much on our technology and so little on our own abilities. We cannot steal from this world without paying a price. Our safety comes at the cost of complacency. Our freedom comes at the cost of immorality. Our technology comes at the cost of laziness. Our life comes at the cost of lifelessness.

So live. Breathe, walk, jump and play.