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I am a child of a new era of humans. A child in times where humans have evolved intercommunication abilities, beyond the wildest dreams of futurists from past centuries.

This together with the opportunity to be brought up in a modern society gave me the opportunity to get vast access to information that gradually disillusioned me about the state of humanity in that even though the evolution of our brain is enormously rapid, cultural artifacts - universal throughout societies - are holding us back, at least from the perspective of a human lifetime.

But in the end one must realize that everything that one will ever encounter in our human world can be inferred from neurological processes, which themselves are fully describable through our grand achievements in the fields of chemistry, physics, modern biology and above all - the culmination of todays knowledge systems biology and in fact any field that have emerged from the point of mere basic research to unraveling the intricacies of nature itself on a vast systematic scale.

One cannot understand the interaction of hominidae, in particular h. sapiens without understanding the core of our "operating system" first on which we all are based (our genome.......till the point where the field of neurobiology takes over and ultimately on an even greater scale the field of psychology).
In the end everything, that brought us into the 21st century as we know it is to be owed to the never-ending rivalry and sophistication of hominidae groups, as well as the neocortical evolution of the individuals themselves to be able to blend into their own group in as little time as possible. And it is this evolutionary history that we should all bear in mind, when considering the current state of modern human societies. Or simply speaking the state of the world itself, since virtually any consideration is ultimately an anthropogenic one.

For me the most fundamental moral guideline, or lack thereof, is that nothing can go against nature. It is rather simple and straightforward, yet especially incomprehensible to religious people. I won`t elaborate on this however.

One could summarize me as being frenetically interested in virtually any natural science - since any science is ultimately naturalism, even though the term itself certainly has changed to encompass protosciences - and being part of the very process that will bring humanity further into the future.

It saddens me that many people either don`t have the chance to become part of this process or were simply brought up in a world that favored old dogmatic rules and false pretenses, religion being one of them.

Religion:
Whilst religion was an unavoidable phenomenon during the evolution of our evermore powerful imaginary capabilities, it itself has grown into a full blown modernized system sharing economic and social powers and enormous influence, highly visible in states such as the US or its Islamic counterparts. Religion nowadays has become a tool that can be bought by economic means and has no benefits whatsoever to any modern society.

That being said, the US in it`s current form would certainly qualify as turning, its founding fathers, who themselves were mostly naturalists, in agony in their graves.

Ignorance:
Whilst applying the term of being ignorant on an emotional or personal level is ridiculous to say the least, since we are all ignorant by default, applying it as synonymous for the lack of (vital) education does make sense.
In that way it is staggering and frightening just how ignorant the populace in virtually almost all countries (with a few stellar exceptions) really are. Because the lack of education has to be considered in light of, that is relative to the ever expanding understanding of nature itself, it certainly doesn`t help that stupidity itself has become an influential market and educational values are gradually watered down more and more through those very market forces of which the broadcasting media is the vast majority "share holder".
Nor does it help that we don`t have unilaterally profound minimal requirement as to who can become a politician, in whose vested power we trust and whose deeds and mindset will influence our daily lives more than most of us would wish for.

Myself:
I am usually rather cynical, sarcastic or often outright blunt in the assertions i make. Time is too short to beat around the bush in order to please the ego of someone else and as a result of this get to a point where a discussion is beyond saving.
But i do adhere to niceties, political correctness and do have a general sense of courtesy so long it is appropriate and beneficial and thus expect the same from anyone else.