Very apt description of the human species. Throughout our entire existence, we have been trying endlessly and relentlessly to eradicate as many humans as we can. Our brains enable us to justify our killings. We've created words such as freedom, justice, manifest destiny, and so many more...as our justification for more killings. In reality, we kill for want of power...over every other living thing. Because we don't kill only humans, we will kill any life form if it will benefit us by providing us more power, more wealth, entertainment, status.
We do not, have not, will not learn from the past. We continue and will continue through our entire existence to make war, commit violence. What our brains enable us to do is to create more efficient weapons of death. We call this progress. Today, we can kill many many more people and animals with less effort much quicker and without being bloodied or even seeing the devastation we do. We will continue to create ever more efficient weapons of death to do our killings for us.
We even created religion to manipulate and control masses of people and to further justify our acts of violence and greed. Churches and religious leaders have become extremely wealthy and powerful on every continent and throughout human history. Millions and millions of people have died as a result of religious beliefs and they continue to die today. It will never end. It's one of the strongest justifications to declare war.
Throughout all of this progress, we continue to destroy our very world--we continue to destroy everything we need in order to survive. We profess love for our "children" but we have too many children too irresponsibly. We are literally screwing ourselves out of existence. At the very least, we are doing our damnedest to do that.
World leaders and scientists believe the solution to a hopelessly overcrowded world with rapidly diminishing resources and quality of life is to spread to other worlds. Yes, if we succeed, we WILL spread our disease of violence and greed as far as we can go.
Homo sapiens are the ultimate cancer of all living things. We are the cancer for which there is no cure.
Why not? Because we thrive on violence and we're learning to commit violence from a distance through weapons of death. We NEED war. Without war, how would countries and leaders become Great? How would they acquire unimaginable wealth and power...as countries and as individuals? Where would our heroes come from?
Civilizations of the past whom we consider "great" were the civilizations that murdered and plundered and garnered the greatest wealth the most. Becoming "civilized" enabled peoples and nations to spread their violence and greed throughout the world...to every continent and island they could find. We call this progress. We are proud of our collective history of violence.
We, as a species, do not want peace. We do not want everyone to be equal everywhere. Each of us, as nations and as individuals, have an innate desire to be better than the person next to us...even in our own families. We find reasons to be better: color, nations, religion, appearance. When we say we need to reach our full potential, what we're really saying is "we need to be better than anyone else in whatever it is we choose to do."
No one anywhere wants to be mediocre or peaceful. Where is the glory in that? Where are the rewards? How will we stand out in a crowd...especially as our world becomes ever more crowded with the likes of us?
All you need to do is look at our entertainmers and our civil and military leaders. Look at the reality shows filled with commonplace people willing to make asses of themselves for a few weeks of "fame" and proclaiming "I exist, I am here, I am not invisible, I'm important."
Humans DO NOT WANT PEACE. They like to talk about it, especially if it elevates them above everyone around them. But just really think about it. How bored would ALL of us be if everyone were equal, if we didn't always want to be better than everyone else in some area of our lives...if everyone had a safe place to live and enough food to eat. We'd find something, anything to make ourselves rise above everyone else. We want to compete for everything, we want to have more than the next person, we want to stand out from the crowd. We don't want to be lost in a crowd of happy, peaceful people who don't want anything from us. We would have no heroes, no idols, no one to envy, no reason to live.
Humans thrive on violence and greed. Greed drives our endeavors. Violence gives us a way to fulfill our desire for ever more of everything. We'll use religion and freedom to justify all of our actions. If necessary, we will also invent and create more reasons to justify the violence, destruction, and devastation we do to our species, our world. And if we find the way, we will spread our cancerous species as far out and away from Earth as we can go. If our species survive millions of years of existence, we will still be doing what we're doing today, what we've done throughout our existence. We will still continue to do our best to eradicate the human race and every other life forms who have the misfortune of crossing our path and making us aware of them.
Armageddon is not a place...or an event. Armageddon is us, homo sapiens, people of planet Earth.
We even created a god in our own image to justify so many of our own acts of violence. But that's fodder for another blog entry.
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