Dear Reader, The Human Condition

Dear Reader,
-The Human Condition-
               This post may be a bit of a strange one for some of you. It's a philosophical break-down of a poem I've recently written. I realize that poetry isn't exactly the most beloved form of literature in our days, and that philosophy is considered kind of outdated. But, truth be told, every author is a philosopher, and by extension every reader is a student of Philosophy.

                 That having been said, I'm going to assume that even if my word choice isn't exactly appealing, you'll still find yourself enjoying this post.

   Here's the poem, firstly:

With an ache in our brain,
Mankind walked out of the mud.
We sought out truth,
And we didn't always find it.
Soon we began to realize,

That the ache in our brain was understanding.
The understanding that something is amiss.
The knowledge that the world is empty,
And something here isn't real,
Something doesn't make sense.
With an ache in our brain,
Mankind walked out of the mud.
With an ache in our brain,
Mankind shakes the metal bars of reality,
Crying, "Let us out, Let us out!"

Secondly:
      The break down is pretty simple. This is the Human Condition. Exactly what the human condition is, defined by Wiki and several other sources, is pretty much everything that a human in society and life goes through. Part of that is the constant search for meaning and understanding in our world. Well, I've figured something out through thought and, to put it simply, talk with other people. The "Search for understanding" is merely the side affect for the true "Human Condition". The real dis-ease of the human heart and mind isn't the presence of ignorance, or the lack of knowledge, but the sickening madness that infects all of mankind. It's as if somewhere in the heart of our DNA is a pulse being sent out, this pulse is some twist of our make up that leaves a hollow feeling in our hearts. Scientists, and by extension Alchemists in the olden days, will call it ignorance. Some of our more modern day people might call it a broken heart, and blame it on the lack of a love life or a lustrous, adventurous life. 
          Whatever you call it, those things are merely the side-effect. The way your mind interprets the emptiness of what's inside you. But, I'm here to tell you that it isn't something inside you that you're missing. It's something the universe itself is missing. If we think long and hard, open our minds to what we're afraid most to admit, we'll soon realize that it's actually our world we find to be empty.
          The Buddhists were the first to figure it out and make peace with it. Buddha described the emptiness of the world as a kind of Law of Physics. A truth that nothing is real in our world, that it's all empty, yet it somehow, mysteriously, still exists. We quirked our eyebrows at it as Buddhists but we merely stated that it as part of some grand truth, the "Enlightenment" so sought out by the people of that religion.
           Many other people in the world for most of our history merely saw this as some strange quirk of that religion. Though, occasionally, some westerner would get a glimpse of how true this was, and that's where we get the Buddhists and the neo-spiritualists. But, what the truth is, is that science has revealed how very true that is in a very non-mystified way. The truth is, we are made up of Atoms. And those atoms are 90% (or more) empty space. Everything is made up of atoms except for light (energy.). And even Light makes no sense, being this strange mix of both particle and wave that leaves us wondering about the truth of its existence. And then we're even more befuddled and disturbed when we realize that whether or not the light (or electron, depending on which double-slit experiment we're talking about) behaves as a wave or a particle is entirely dependent on how we observe it. As if reacting to our knowledge of it. This questions its existence even further. How can something that is true, undeniable, non-sentient, behave differently just based on how we are observing it?
            This leaves us lost, confused, and suddenly that void becomes more threatening and violent. Because, it makes no sense. It doesn't add up. And it's not just the light or the electrons; and it's not just our atoms or our lives. It's everything. Nothing makes perfect sense, and there's something wrong with our world.
          The truth behind truths? We aren't driven to knowledge by our ignorance; rather, we are driven to knowledge by our understanding that the universe is false, and the fear to admit this understanding and the fear of admitting this as a fact drives us away from our "Human Condition" and propels us toward attempting to find a quick-fix for the side-effects (the need to know more) instead of facing the real problem- the world, the universe, it's all empty; and we want out.
           We want out, so we face the bars of our farce prison of a reality and shake them, crying out "let us out, let us out!"