Knowledge Above All Else

It must have been years ago when I realized that the world isn't the way it should be. Everyone probably has that defining realization. Mine was during history class, when I noticed that the majority of the globe did not enjoy the same comforts as we did, behind our metaphoric stone walls of safety. We, as children, and even now as adults, are coddled during much of our lives and taught to enjoy that kind of thing. Not in a malicious way, but in an innocent way that suggests that there is little we could do to change things. The sense that no matter what, the things we do would always result in failure if we tried to change the way the world worked at the fundamental level. Those who have would always continue to have, and would always have more than those that didn't, and that was just the way things were supposed to be, according to society.

But really that's just the things that we've been told, due to the nature of our current society. We're in a transitional phase, so to speak, between the world of superstition and the world of reason and science. Slowly, society will make the move towards a fully educated populace, due in no small part to the abundance of education in our society and the way in which it is provided. It isn't enough yet, but it's a pattern that can be observed and used to extrapolate. I believe in the fullest use of knowledge, so as to best serve society, and provide guidelines for future generations to follow. The improvement of society and the world is incredibly important, and should never be ignored.

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The scent of the sea and old, kicked up cigarettes essentially replaces the normal taste of air, and a rattled old wood makes up the walkway for the teeming crowds of Ocean City. In fact, Boardwalk 1 is the oldest part of the boardwalk in Ocean City and represents a landmark for the bustling city that grew in the area.(1) It is now one of the biggest tourist attractions in the area, and should most assuredly be preserved as such, lest the disrepair that the area currently suffers from result in the destruction of the area entirely.

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(1)"The Boardwalk History", Ocean City Maryland Boardwalk, 10/3/2012, http://www.ocboards.com/history.html