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The Most Important Profession by lawani: 3:51pm On Apr 05, 2016
The most important profession is without a doubt journalism. The art of articulating yourself in writing. If you write something worth reading, then you are a journalist at that point in time. Not only people who publish in news magazines after being vetted by editors are journalists. Even people who publish peer reviewed works in scientific journals are also journalists, only that their works are only well understood by professionals in their field. What we have above animals is the ability to articulate ourselves to a much more greater extent than them and it is this power given to us by the creator that we use to further develop ourselves by building civilizations to collectively solve our problems, first through the use of language and etc, then more elaborately through the use of writing. If for the past five thousand years, no knowledge known by man was lost, if all knowledge was passed from one generation to the other without any part of it getting lost in the process, then I daresay, humanity would be a thousand times more advanced than we are today. Probably star trekking would be a reality and not science fiction. The only means through which this can be achieved is through well developed journalism in all fields of human endeavor but unfortunately empires fall and whole bodies of very advanced knowledge disappear with the fall. There are principles known and freely used by ancient Egyptians which will earn anyone proposing it today a Nobel laureate. The Kemitic Egyptians built the pyramid without having the wheel and we have no idea of how yet. Apparently those Kemitic Egyptians were in a sort of post industrial age five thousand years ago, which we are not close to yet in the 21st century AD. The Babylonians, Phoenicians, Mayans, Aztecs, ancient Ife people and etc used scientific principles freely that we have no inkling of today. And why is it so? It is so because of a lack of continual end to end journalism caused by the disruption of human progress due to the collapse of organised empires across the world.

Britain or the Western world kickstarted a new post industrial age culture of syncing all human knowledge together via universities across the world where researchers publish works in peer reviewed journals. There were centres of formal acquisition of knowledge across the world for thousands of years in India and etc, then in Muslim countries, a big university in Timbuctu, Mali, West Africa, producing scholars and many such centers across the globe but it was pre industrial age, pre mass production era. After the rise of Britain and the empire, formal education assumed the form it now has, universities across the world became a community, the intelligentsia started to work together, so for over two hundred years now, we can say one generation as successfully passed down its body of knowledge to the next, that amounts to a full use of journalism to advance the cause of humanity and we all can see the level of advancement it has brought for us. There were no motor cars two hundred years ago, no computers, no internet, no airplanes, no telephones. All came to be through the God given power of articulation through journalism in science.

The only flaw, I see in the whole arrangement is how the global society turned its back on God and spirit by advancing the cause of secularism. We concentrated only on matter and unleashed journalism to explore that sphere, leaving out the non material entirely. Someone said and I quote 'The day humanity starts to study non physical phenomena, we will make more progress in ten years than we made in the past 500 years'. I will find the name of the authour later.

Journalism is the noblest profession and a human society with universities across the globe synced together. studying both physical and non physical phenomenon for a thousand years non stop will be unstoppable. Nothing shall be impossible for such a human civilization or society but such a civilization or society will probably be humble enough to accept the existence of non material beings and hence God before it can develop in the direction of the realm controlled by the non material, mind or spirit.

I am sure many waters have passed under the bridge on Earth and I have no doubt that our most ancient ancestors were star trekkers as passed down to us as history by our more recent ancestors. I have no doubt over this because it is obvious that despite our level of advancement today, our descendants in 500 years' time may end up as hunter gatherers roaming the Earth if we dont play our cards right. We need journalism, a lot of level headedness, common sense and doing the right thing at the right time like stopping the Christians and Muslims on their tracks immediately to avoid the derailment of this civilization.

So, journalism, credible and objective articulation of everything and analysis of everything via journalism can solve not nearly all but totally all problems.
Re: The Most Important Profession by Eebrahym(m): 3:56pm On Apr 05, 2016

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