An Essay on Change

An Essay on Change

  There are many dark and light forces at work on this spherical mass of rock we call earth.  The biggest mistake a man can make is to bear the world upon his own shoulders, for he will surely collapse.  It is for this reason that desperate and wise men alike call upon a higher power to assist them in a life that all have lived and few have truly loved.  How many desperate good people do you think call upon God and his angels for protection, success, and wealth everyday?  It is because independence is impossible if you wish to survive in this chaos filled wilderness we call space.  
  We live in a world filled with people consumed by greed, fear, grief, lust, ignorance, and hate.  Man refuses to love his neighbor for fear of being rejected of some form of payment, whether it be love, acceptance, time, tranquility, or money.  Instead man takes these things from his neighbor unjustly.  Then the neighbor feeling cheated takes these things from others, and so on and so forth.  
  It is up to the men and women of today to learn how to treat their fellow man, so that the children will learn.  This will ultimately lead to a better world tomorrow, but just as the farmer doesn't yield crops without planting seeds first, we must also create these changes in ourselves today.  Overcome fear, greed, lust, ignorance, and hate; then we will live in peace.
                       -Joe Wheeler

What Makes A Man?

What Makes A Man?

     “How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?”  And so goes the anthem of manhood.  Throughout history there have been many different ways that an older adolescent male could earn the right to be called "man".  But that begs the question; what is a man?  By definition, a man is someone over eighteen with a penis.  But the thing is, we all know people over eighteen with a jimmy, and some of them can hardly be considered a man.  Maybe the question isn't “What is a man?”  Just maybe, the real question is “What makes a man?”     

     According to the popular Nickelodeon show SpongeBob Squarepants, a man is someone who has acquired “a taste for smooth jazz”.  This hypothesis dies when you consider that many people we know to be men don’t care for smooth jazz.  So then what does make a man?  I do have one answer.  That answer is courage.  A man is someone with courage and a penis.  Being able to stand up to anything that threatens the well-being of the ones we love; I feel this is part of what makes a man.  It’s not about brute strength because it doesn’t matter how many notches are carved into your pistol.  It’s about what those notches stand for.

     Courage is definitely part of what a man is made of.  But just as you can’t have peanut butter without jelly.  You can’t have a man with only courage.  With only courage a person would be ignorant, and lack decent judgment.  A man also needs to possess wisdom.  A man must know right from wrong, and be able to discern between the two.  This is only acquired through learning from experiences and mistakes.  Intelligence is what separates us from this blogs mascot after all.  Intelligence is the answer for why you have anything.  Everything is obtained because of those moments when you used your brain the way it was intended to be used.

     Still, a person only possessing courage and wisdom is cold and calculating.  It takes a third, very special, ingredient to complete the trinity of a man.  That third and most important ingredient is love.  Love is the reason someone’s courage is activated.  Love is the reason we make the decisions we do.  But just as sword is only a lone metal stick without a war.  Both courage and wisdom are useless without love.  Gentle hearts and firm hands are the makings of a man.   

A Narrative Of A School Shooting

     A Narrative of A School Shooting      

     

     The sounds of gunshots pierce the ears of a chemistry teacher in Middle America.  Another depressed youth has gone postal.  911 is called, and minutes later parents, paramedics, police, and news reporters flood the high school parking lot.  News cameras show students in tears, fleeing the building and running into the arms of terrified loved ones.  A body is covered by a sheet and wheeled out on a stretcher.  This was the teen who killed several classmates before tragically taking his own life.

     In the weeks that follow, news stations will cover the story immensely.  They will cling to any new bit of information, be it rumor or fact.  Anything will suffice the public’s dire hunger for new information related to the horrible incident.  Victims’ families can be seen on Good Morning America sharing their undeserved grief with the rest of the nation.  Others will wish to be left alone, and will hold private funerals with news vans just outside the restricted area.  This truly wasn’t the reception they wished their loved ones would have.  These parents never wanted to see their children die.  The grief they feel will take its toll for the rest of their lives.

     Now the debates are beginning.  Necessary debates about the awareness of mental health in late adolescence can be seen on MSNBC.  Meanwhile on CNN those with heavy beliefs in gun control can be seen pushing their agenda, and gaining new supporters, all thanks to the recent tragedy.  Now the NRA holds a press conference in defense of their own agenda that is currently being threatened by the liberals.  Arguments spark at the dinner table about whether or not tighter gun laws should come into effect.  New regulations are passed in schools to prevent this tragedy from happening again.  Of course, the real reason may very well be that they don’t wish to lose their extra funding from their levies.

     A month has passed and everything, besides the hearts of the families of the victims, has returned to normal.  The students that bullied the killer into committing these horrible acts go on with their lives.  Some settle down with their spouse and raise families of their own.  We can only hope that the future of these kids is brighter than that of the troubled young man who murdered his classmates in the same hallways where this next generation will go to high school.  Hopefully mental health awareness for teenagers will have increased by that time and child psychologists can save lives by helping new would-be school shooters through their depression and other issues.  Here’s to a brighter tomorrow.

This War Torn World

     This War Torn World

     Today at 3 o’clock I checked my twitter feed, and was eye-raped by an uncountable amount of news articles containing war related material.  There were pictures of tanks in Libya, dead bodies in Gaza, and several articles about how powerful ISIS is…ISIS is?  Ha!  Try saying that 3 times fast.  Journalists are being murdered, even though documenting events in a war zone has historically been proven to be 100% safe.  With all this killing it forces me (not Ferguson police state force) to beg the question; will the violence reach an end before it forces our race to an ultimate conclusion?  A.K.A. a nuclear apocalypse.  Maybe it’s inevitable.

     Seeking world peace is like trying to put a square peg in a round hole.  But what do you do when accomplishing that impossible feat is a matter of survival or extinction.  Violence can’t be totally extinguished because of greed, religion, and opposing beliefs.  Perhaps we will inevitably go the way of the dinosaurs and bell bottom pants.  That may very well be the case, but I’m a human, when I’m faced with a problem I don’t accept it, I overcome it!  So how can humanity overcome this problem?  I don’t have the answer to this undying question.  I don’t think anyone truly does.  All I’m stating is that it needs to be answered before the entire world goes into a long winter, and I’m not speaking of climate change.

Race Issues In 2014? Oh Lawd!

Race Issues In 2014? Oh Lawd!               

       I decided it would be a good idea if the first article on Reckless Humanity isn’t super controversial, so I’m going to make it about race.  Once upon a time, in a land forcefully taken from the indigenous nomads, there was this crazy practice called slavery.  Slavery wasn’t a new innovational idea for it had been practiced all over the globe for as long as there have been humans.  It’s still around only now it’s more insidious, taking the shape of paper notes and plastic cards.  In this particular land Slavery was practiced using other humans whose pixels reflected a darker color than the ex-Europeans skin did.  Through an extremely complicated neo-Nazi related algorithm this meant that these darker Homo sapiens were inferior to their ex-European counter-parts.  This justified their treatment for some time until one mans’ brain caught a signal of insight through his trademark top hat antenna.  The message was in Morse code but it read something like “Stop these idiots. I mean c’mon son.”  Well the man in the top hat obviously had no choice but to start a war and end this dreadful practice known as “slavery”.  This man succeeded and we pay tribute to him to this day by ironically printing his face on our new method of slavery called money.

     If you read the previous paragraph, or went to a half decent public school system and made it out without being killed by a depressed classmate, then you should have some knowledge about what slavery was and you will be ready to receive this next bit.  So about 50-60 years ago there was this rare growth spurt in the brains of some of our species.  Apparently hanging a man in a tree because of the color of his skin just wasn’t humane, and we needed to put an end to these atrocious acts at our soonest convenience.  There were protests, a lady on a bus sat still, a man rose to fame, and a man was shot.  Ultimately, the end result was a public awareness of race issues, and businesses saved money on constructing extra restrooms.

     We now skip ahead to the year 2014.  A not so secretly socialist black man is holding the most prestigious office on the planet.  Martin Luther King Jr. day is celebrated in almost every state.  The idea that the color of your skin is relevant in any way is all but extinct.  And then some idiotic “public safety officer”, who just so happened to be white, shot and killed an idiotic gangbanger who just so happened to be black.  Now every race group in the nation of ex-European Indian slayers is working an angle and trying to make a buck off this ordeal.  The news stations across the country are going berserk about this event.  Pathetic cause creating websites are stating “Plight of Young Black Men: The Scars and the Crisis”-solidarity-us.org.  And now Ferguson has become a household name.

    All that needs to be said is this; People should indeed stand up when their rights are violated. The color of someone’s skin is absolutely irrelevant and the real assholes are those who make it relevant for their own gain.  Reverend Al Sharpton needs to crawl back into his hole.  And this whole thing will be forgotten by the general public once another retarded celebrity does something stupid.  R.I.P. Robin Williams. 

Enter The Dojo At Your Own Risk!

An Introduction For N00Bz

         First of all I’d like thank you for sacrificing a few precious minutes of your earthly existence to come over to RH and check out the blog.  That being said, you are now in an unsafe zone, those of you with weak stomachs and small IQ scores may want to crawl back under the bed from which you came.  If you’re still reading I’d like to welcome you to the dojo, please enjoy your stay!

            Hello earthlings! I’d like to introduce myself, my name is Joe and I will be your narrator, friend, companion, lover, hater, and enemy as you traverse the underworld of the internet known as recklesshumanity.blogspot.com.  I write all the articles you will be reading.  My aim in making this site and its contents is to share the inner workings of my human brain with my fellow occupants of this war torn world.  If you have an issue with my opinions and insights you are encouraged to share your disdain in the comments and I will reply to your counter-argument promptly or never.  Enjoy!