HUMANITY: A LOST CAUSE

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HUMANITY: A LOST CAUSE

By: penman

Well, it's finally happened. I've totally given up

on the world and Homo sapiens. Try as I may, I can't

find enough "good" to balance the horrible evil which seems to

be inseparable from the "human condition".

I'd really like to be an optimist, but I have to be

honest with myself and to admit that nothing's going to

change for us. None of the major areas of our earthly

experience seems to be salvageable.  For instance:

We simply WON'T stop finding reasons to kill one

another! That's true in our town and cities and in our

nations. I have to conclude that we must ENJOY acting like

wild animals towards each other. Why else would we never give

up going to war? I'd blame it on corrupt leaders or

greed for power, but then I realize that the "scale " of our

viciousness includes every group of people from the

neighborhood "gangs" to the largest nation states! We just

think and act like killers, and that depressing fact has never

ever changed.

We use all sorts of excuses for becoming animals. Race,

religion, language, and national borders are some of our

favorite reasons for attacking our fellow humans, but any

excuse will do. No conclusion is possible except that we ARE

animals, and are vastly more dangerous than tigers or great

white sharks because we're smarter! That accident of

evolution allows us to be really efficient and effective when

we carry out our "natural" instincts to kill our fellow man.

We can't overcome nature.

The world is becoming more dangerous for our species as

our population grows and our weapons improve. We have the

means to destroy our environment, and have invented the

motivation to make ourselves extinct rather soon now,. After

all, given our history and unchangeable natures, it was always

inevitable that we should take the final step on our long and

bloody careers as killers. We will become out own final

victims!

Of course we are builders and artists and creators of

great beauty. But nothing that we build can withstand our

terrible drives to destroy things! What good is genius if we

use it to invent hydrogen bombs? We have always carried the

seeds of our own destruction in our blueprints, and the time

for our ultimate destruction is almost here.

I understand how amazingly lucky I am to be living where I

live and in my time. I know that the average human lives in

conditions that absolutely horrify me, and that my

comfortable life would be the envy of at least 70% of the

world's population. I don't slave in a rice paddy

or go hungry every day. I have great medical care and every

day is a holiday for me. I now that the Emperors of ancient

times lived in conditions that would make me shudder if I had

to endure what they accepted as lives of luxury. And this is

the last time period in which my wold will be able to offer

anyone in my species a life on Leisure Drive!

I really don't feel sad to know the truth that

humanity is nearing the end of its time on this planet. We

deserve no better, and maybe in a few thousand years another

dominant species will emerge here and will be more successful

than we were. This is actually a very nice place to live and

I hope the next tenants appreciate that fact.

HUMANITY: A LOST CAUSE

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