Environment

The single greatest danger to our freedom is our own attempt at creating a new free world while rejecting the old one. Instead, we should be working to restore the old free world, as well as working to defend it from any future decomposition. The very heart of human nature is the greatest danger to the human race.
When humans were given the ability to manipulate and change the environment into which they were born, they sought to eliminate the troubles of their health and survival necessities. They created tools with which they could better prepare food, as well and shelters in which they could better sleep.
As the human race developed, it gained a sense of infinity-that it could escape its seemingly troublesome environment. Thus, it developed better tools and shelters. The permanent house and the farm proved the race right and right again as its structures and tools became more and more elaborate. It even developed tools for use in assisting their selves with building these structures and other tools; the calculator, and eventually, the computer were born. Eventually, the structures and tools minimized the time spent outdoors and maximized the time spent in the revolutionary, new environment-the screen.
Humans have, thus far, almost entirely migrated into their self-built environment. Most citizens of the "civilized" world spend more time in front of screens than with each other. They even developed a way of communicating without actually being in each others' proximity: the Internet.
Despite this progress, we as humans are realizing too late the mistake which we have made. In attempting to solve the health problems in our natural environment, we created worse problems in our own: Obesity and insomnia, caused by the neglected body; asthma, caused by indoor air being often less clean than outdoor air, which we pollute anyway.
In short, we are digging ourselves into a hole. The machines we designed to help us are becoming what many of us depend on for life: emphysema, for example, renders the victim incapable of breathing without a machine.
The next step is obvious: we will become trapped in the environment which we create for ourselves. Artificial intelligence, which we created, will become our only chance at survival. Machines may even become capable of controlling us. Unfortunately, we will realize, much too late, that the environment which we left behind was far more preferable than the one, any one, which we can create.
Maybe, someday, robots will be our life support. Maybe, someday, we will become entirely, physically incapable of living outdoors. Maybe the robots, as we discarded the health of our environment, will discard us, in favor of a less troublesome environment which they create for themselves. What lies beyond the digital realm? It is impossible to comprehend. But maybe, that obscure realm shall discard the robots, as they discarded the humans who discarded their own environment. Were humans created by nature? Undoubtedly. And then, who created nature? The Bible and other religious texts offer the explanation that God created the planets, nature, and humans. But then, who created God? Again, we cannot comprehend a power of this logic. Something in the realm beyond these realms which we cannot see created the realms before us, and shall continue the cycle…into the infinity which we seek.