The Current State from the Animal Observer

There is indeed a difficulty in assessing the current state of the world, for we cannot say much about it without speculation of a future state. And who knows the future? This is forever hidden to humankind, unless we may learn when we die, which would be a rather expensive piece of information. 

We'd have to decide upon the terms of comparison. On what do we measure? If society is an aggregate of all we are today, then we may argue that people are much, much better off than in the 18th century and before. Working conditions are vastly improved. Hygiene and medicine are much better. Living space is more accommodating. Then why are we all complaining? 

Because there is now, as there always was a great disparity between the wealthy and then non-wealthy. The world is hyper connected and beginning to realize what they do and don't have. I enter into the question prejudiced, no doubt, being American, the all consuming. Americans want and want. We are spoiled to the max. Money is our measure of success. What can we get next is the general question. "It's hard work buying this Prada," the wealthy fool belts. But a nay-saying critic's foundations are weak if he cannot replace the phrase with what should be said. Is it, "What should I be doing"? No, for this is the very answer we are trying to find. At first glance it is entirely subjective. How are we to continue or analysis?

We can only judge on a hierarchy of values. We cannot establish these, outside of what are universal human rights, subjectively. On the human rights plane, societies have progressed tremendously. But it is not this which bothers us. It is the socio-economic game. We want to know if our lives are being ruled over properly. Are rights given the optimal chance to flourish? Social action will never reach an optimal state, because like all the arts in their abstraction, it can be continuously improved. Analysis of that which is outside of the realm of understanding the immediate capacity of human rights is only possible via overview of objective standards of the past and present. Hence analysis as we would like it is impossible. We are a bunch of animals running around. The world just plays. Look through unfiltered eyes at the structures and musings of humans and observe the folly and manufactured wisdom, and we may laugh, sigh, and cry, just like the animal observers we are.