Hello, Newgrounds. First of all, I'd like to stick a disclaimer here. This post is a rant. I don't know what the point of it is, I just feel like clearing my head of the ideals circulating from my head. I will not talk about the making of any games or others news. So if you are expecting that, please stop reading this post.

This is my philosophy on the world. I am 17 years old, and a Junior in high shool in a small town in Colorado. I don't try very hard in school but manage to get very good grades still, as I'm pretty smart. I think heavily on many things and try to always look at the big picture. I still wish to go to college and get a degree in something, but over the last couple of months, I have been thinking very critically on where I stand in this planet.

I don't want to be just another person. I want to be somebody that really changes the world as we know it. I want to go above and beyond, I want to be outstanding. The first idea that came to my mind was politics. But the idea of being a politician is becoming increasingly absurd to me with each new thought. Politics is a game of digging up the dirt of your opponent, a game where the only way to win is by the people you know. And the only true office worth running for with the ideals I have in mind is presidency, an office I find incredibly unlikely to actually achieve.

When I say a bright, but inevitably doomed tomorrow, I am talking about the world as a whole. The world has a bright future because our species is evolving at a tremendous rate, meaning we can do great things. But the world is having more problems than ever before. With global warming becoming a large issue, natural resources depleting, and overpopulation, we can not ignore the planet we so desperately need to keep running efficiently. But where is the money in finding the fixes to these problems? There is no money to be made on fixing these problems, so people will continue to turn the other cheek at them. It pains me to think about how the world can end: an apocalyptic world where people are fighting for food and water, devolving in a sense.

How are we to fix these problems? I don't know. I really do not see what can be done. I am one man, wanting to tackle the world's problems head on, but without a clue as to what direction to move in.

I do not have a religion, nor am I looking for one. I feel like all are very similar, and is inevitably a lot of nonsense. There are thousands of religions out there; who's to say which religion is correct? Most religions believe that being a non-believer means damnation. But if this is true, than most of the world will be damned, while the select few in that one religion that was correct will earn their salvation. It isn't right to believe in such a thing. I believe in doing the right thing, being a good person, and ultimately being righteous. I feel that if there is a higher power, than I will receive my salvation by doing right in this lifetime I was given, as with all people, regardless of religion.

The questions I have about a higher power, the meaning of life, etc. are a big topic of thought in my mind. When I think heavily on it, I feel there is but one thing humans can do in order to answer these sacred questions: aliens.

Now hear me out on this ridiculously silly sounding topic. Extra-terrestrial life forms exist, obviously. With billions of planets out there, probably millions similar to ours, there absolutely has to be aliens somewhere out there. Of all of those aliens out there, there has to be some life forms that are evolved past our own, being smarter than ours, more knowledgeable. I feel that as a species, one of our major goals should be to find aliens more evolved than us. These aliens can help us, possibly even knowing the answers to my questions, the questions that wander in the heads of millions, if not billions of people. Even if they do not have the answers to these questions, knowing how they have managed such a successful species would ultimately benefit us, as we have massive problems of our own (destroying our planet).

Okay, so maybe that idea is a bit crazy, but as I said, I try to look at the big picture. Even if we don't go after finding aliens, we at least need to invest in space. Space is the unexplored region of the universe. We need to look past our planet. We are not going to be able to support life too much longer on Earth, meaning investment in colonies on other planets is a must. I feel that as it was America's Manifest Destiny to stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific cost, it is Human's Manifest Destiny to expand past our planet, maybe even past our solar system.

I conclude here with this final paragraph. I think heavily about the world, about the problems we are having, about what we need to do to fix them. But since humans are stubborn and capitalistic, we can only do so much when it comes to political and economical affairs. The problems we have will only be mended once it is to the point where it is a necessity, which is a very bad way to go. The only sure way for our species to survive past the next thousand years is to invest in space travel, to invest in expansion into space. My ideas may be radical, but I want what is best for the world, and damn it, I'm going to invest my life into putting these ideals into affect.

End of rant. Thank you for reading my ideals.