Unsaid

It is a little late to welcome people to the twenty-first century since we're nearly twenty years into it, except there a new arrivals every day.

'Newbies' are crying and crawling their way into a time of great division between educated persons and those who are not, between self-sustainable individuals and communities and those that are not.

Many twenty-first century people have become more educated and intelligent as a result. Talk of the 'digital divide' began at the end of the last century. That is when society began to separate further between being information literate and those who are not.

As computer technology and its application became more mainstream among developed cultures, information science became more of a requirement and necessity than an option.

Not being able to use a computer and communications technology is akin to being illiterate, meaning unable to read and write. It means being obsolete and a burden to society except for providing manual and menial labor.

While technology enabled people to advance, the rest fall behind and without assistance, they become 'failed human beings.'

Failed human beings are those who are unsustainable or without self-sustainment. Among them are people who live within access to support resources if and when the governing class decides to help them.

Others are those who are stranded in locations that are resource-deficient and therefore, unsustainable. Exacerbating that is population size, where the sheer numbers make matters worse. Add to that deficient and uncaring governance and there are mass casualties, calamity, and chaos.

The planet is approaching eight billion inhabitants in which only forty percent are categorized as belonging to fee-states. Even so, nation-states such as the US teeter between being a democracy and an oligarchy. Freedom and liberty are fragile and scarce qualities.

The information age in which I was born a newbie saw the first computers, and I was among the first to have computer technology-generated work. I traveled the world sharing what I learned and wrote papers and books about it.


Information equals data facts and their meaning.

Knowledge equals information and application in context.

Wisdom is gained from practical application and success.


Around each of those ideas is a science to explain and manage it.

I live in a nation where the government is intended to be a pluralistic democratic republic in which is representative of the citizens through a system of hierarchical authority beginning with local communities that are enveloped by state governments, and the federal government with districts.

The Constitution that embodies laws and regulations encourages separation between religion and government whereby it signed onto the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That declaration protects all human inhabitants and their inalienable rights even if they live without government protection. It also protects against persecution for individual beliefs that include religious faiths.

However, all religions tend to espouse superiority by their 'god's.' Therein lies a conflict.

The truth is that religions and governments are human inventions. Religions include elaborate mythology and stories to help people understand and embrace the rules of governance that apply to their follower and constituents.

As populations advanced in acquiring knowledge including science, the fabrications of humans found in religious documentation became less believable as facts and more being folklore and metaphoric, suggesting a likeness or analogy. The Bibles, old and new testaments include storytelling that is unsubstantiated by science.

The collision between religious beliefs and modern science and government segregates populations along the lines of education, science, and technology. The clash of faiths among people is senseless, useless, and harmful waste of human intellect that undermines the quest for global security, peace, and harmony.

Today, there is a debate about the effect of humanity on the climate and environment. Those educated in science and technology see the damage and the trend and want to mitigate it. Those who are not, seek to cover up the problem and to decry accountability.

Modern humanity sees the necessity to balance economic, social and environmental responsibilities with the application of knowledge, wisdom, and enabling technology. Lost are the souls who are ill-equipped and unwilling to gain sufficient knowledge and literacy.