The human species has been around for 250,000 years. Owing to our cranial expansion, we have graduated from using tools made of twigs to where we now stand- at the zenith of our intellectual capacity (or so it seems). The curve of our intellectual growth has moved steadily up since the advent of the industrial revolution.
Throughout the ontogenesis of the tribe called Homosapiens, certain behavioural aspects have remained the same- we occupy a certain location until we have exhausted all the available resources around us. A point is reached when the geography of the land can no longer sustain us. The only way we can survive now, is to move to another place. This abstraction of ours has led us to trot the entire globe in search of greener pastures. We have fought many battles and confronted great losses amongst ourselves to find cultivable land and begin a new cycle. Although our approach has been different, our intentions have been the same for many centuries and will continue to do so.
There isn’t another organism that has been under a spell of perpetual chaos, always in war with itself, unable to find its own harmony of existence. The only other organism that follows a similar behavioural pattern with its surrounding is the cancer cell. These cells, unlike invading foreign entities, are very much a part of the human body, whose functions are well defined. But, like a sudden awakening in its conscience, they grow and divide beyond normal limits. The malignant ones destroy adjacent tissues and then move to other parts of the body where they spread similar anarchy. It seems that a normally functioning cell assumes a different archetype –one that gives it a license to go on a rampage of destruction. The rebel cells ‘capture’ the other ones in order to multiply so that their kind and spread over quickly. These are like the Kamikazes and the Che Guevara’s of the human body. “Against brute force and injustice, the people will have the last word. That of victory “
The similarities are just too real to be shrugged off
Humans are a cancer to the planet. We follow a migrate-consume-destroy pattern.
It almost seems like the very purpose of our being on the 3rd rock from the sun is to cause a gigantic cataclysm, one that will annihilate us all and make way for a new beginning.
The dinosaurs followed a similar exit when they failed to fall into harmony with their surroundings. Its a shame that we, the mighty humans, who have the ability to divide an atom, to put a man on the moon, to explore the universe -have to face a similar bereavement.
3 comments:
Really Nice. You had told me about this theme a long time ago. Finally got round to finishing it huh... However, I disagree with the argument that we have reached the zenith of our intellectual capacity. You surely cannot believe that from now on, we can only go downwards wrt to intellectual capacity.
If we had been alive during the second world war, it would have been enough reason to believe that the world would end because of it. It did not and the world struggled slowly but surely back to its feet. So like always, I have a feeling we will learn to correct our mistakes. The only problem is that we need our asses to be kicked to start moving...
@slow sprinter
you maybe right about it.. It's only my speculation that i have put forth here.. cynical ,you could say..
But i'm pretty confident when i say that ,in spite of our tremendous intellectual capacity, we often don't know what we are dealing with until we experience it's consequences.
By then it'll too late to throw up are hands and say " ok.. so i was wrong about this.."
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