I believe that we are at the cusp of the world.

We are teetering at the edge of something great or terrible. Look at the evidence we have : in terms of a geological timescale we are in the midst of another great extinction and our climate is undergoing a massive change because of global warming.

From a human perspictive, we are entering a period of unprecedented technology and revolution of knowledge. We are granting women rights equal to men for the first time in thousands of years, reshaping the roles of family, the roles of the sexes, and the roles of our lives to achieving not rudimentary comforts of shelter or food but of happiness and spiritual fullfillment.

But at the same time we also find ourselves overcome with selfish desires despite our plentiful surroundings. In a time when we live in luxury for the first instance in history, when we can assign ourselves a higher purpose, we choose not to. We choose not to aid the poor or the dying, we choose not to spread the knowledge we have gained simply by being born into a position where it is accessable.

It arouses the suspicion that perhaps this is just human nature, and when the time has come to step forward and seek a higher level of being we instead step backwards because we are afraid. We step backwards into war, into disease, and into allowing religion to emphasize diplomatic decisions.

And so we dangle, on a precipice, into the breaking of the world. The only question now, unanswerable as it may be, is what the new horizon will reveal.