Where have all the free thinkers gone?

Today while I was sitting at work, my mind took track of it's own. All the discoveries that made us what we are today used to be the brainchild of a single person. Take for instance Einstein, Tesla, Bell and so the endless list goes on. Now, who still invents and gets recognition for it?

All the great inventors of our time are being snubbed by big corporations. Take for instance the great Canadian inventor John Hutchison, and the force fields that he has discovered. He discovered it twenty odd years ago, and it still hasn't been taken and used for the benefit of mankind.

Our world is being limited by these corporations and companies, and, with what they would say is good reason. Our ways of transport hasn't changed much over the last 60 years. Given, the cars look smarter, are technological marvels, and go faster, but they are still 'on the ground' so to speak.

Once you take oil out of the equation, where does the world economy and markets go to? Hence, no flying cars, no cars that run on much less than a beam of light, and also not many better alternative fuels. It is as if the world has been slowing down in terms of moving forward, because of our own greediness.

A very good question was once asked, and it went:
'If we are really getting more civilized, then why are we getting more violent and greedy?'

Once again mankind hasn't stood together as one, joining in a single great project, to show ourselves that we haven't devolved, but evolved. A renewal of the mind is needed, and once we realise that, the future will start bearing fruit beyond imagination.

There are only a handful people that still opt for the arts: music, drawing, performing, studies, reading, writing, philosophy and so forth. We have moved back in time only to become Neanderthals with a little bit of style. No more do we have great places like the Library at Alexandria, the knowledge on how to build our own Pyramids, even how to study the stars without sophisticated equipment.

Wise men do not travel the globe from one great city to the other in search of knowledge, for how would they fund themselves? And worse of all, what would they gain? Our perception of wisdom has changed, and the majority of the world now believes wisdom is connected to financial success.

The shamans, the sangomas, the witchdoctors of old, all had the understanding that our spirits are somehow connected to the world around us. Why is it that those who can see choose to remain blind, and those who can hear, choose to remain deaf. We have chosen to close the doors on our spiritual half, the half that made us more than mere men.

We do not even have the ability to create a cheap filtration process for sea water, so as to turn it into fresh water. Why? Because men are probably too afraid and too poor to even attempt such experiments. Looking for the most advanced and most mind boggling solution has taken our mind of 'back to the basics' for almost a century now. Sometimes you don't need to create lightning to strike a bale of hay to set it on fire, a simple match will do.

Modern man was quick to laugh at tales about Atlantis, Lemuria, and the theory about middle earth. but yet we haven't even explored our oceans to any extent, we don't know much about the earth, except that someone started to guess it must have a crust, and it is warm on the inside. Whoop dee doo.... and there we know everything, right?

All the answers to the world's biggest problems was given to us thousands of years ago, but, alas, we just like to trample over jungles, valleys, people, animals, and don't care who or what comes our way, for we will step on them/it without a second thought.

We are still our greatest enemy, and it seems as if we are enjoying the position.