Sunday, September 16, 2007

We are not special...

What is more disturbing to you? The idea that human thought is primitive or that our thought processes could be seen as primitive to an older extraterrestrial species? I had a sobering thought the other night sitting around with my friends drinking beer and watching tv. We're all just evolved apes sitting around in clothes watching, interacting, laughing, and crying with other apes. Have you ever thought about the simpleness of speech? Its the same basic idea as blowing over the opening of a bottle, vibration of atoms in the air. The screen you're reading this stupid note on is just a conglomeration of mixtures of tiny dots of Red, Green, and Blue. Why do we exist? What possible purpose can we as organisms be fulfilling? I believe in God, a higher being with some omnipotent purpose, but I wonder if he cant seem to think of us the way we think of our pets. We must look ridiculous! Some fool animals acting all superior to other animals just because we alter our environment and try to act like we don't have instincts and base pleasures. Its so stupid that people try to fight what they are. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to control ourselves. Animals don't have sex all the time, they have to survive and interact with their environment, but we shouldn't fight our biology with ridiculous social morays. I believe in the human race, I think that we can make a future for ourselves in the universe, but as a species we need to decide what is more important? The economy or the future of our planet and the species that share it with us. People need motivations to live and care about stuff. Communism doesn't work. There are a few inventions and global behavior changes that need to occur for this species to coalesce and move beyond our social and biological fragility. We need a clean self sustaining power source, free or at lease cheap power will clean up the environment and allow food production to be improved. cheap power will allow for easier manufacturing and recycling and improved and eased transportation. Global transportation is the only way to open the minds of everyone on the planet, for them to see how other people live. The more we appreciate how other people live and the things they bring to our lives the less we fear them. There is nothing worse than not knowing anything about someone else, our minds create truths for us to preserve our lives, an evolutionary leftover that seems to do us more harm than good in most cases. We are not special as a species no matter how we look at it. It is up to us as individuals and as a species to make ourselves special and worthy of existence in the universe. I hope that my generation and the next can move farther than the previous generation in uniting the planet, not so much politically but more as friends. That we can let go of our fear of the unknown and realize that our day to day social problems are stupid and not worthy of our time or at least not the amount of attention that we give to them. I think a big step forward would be to stop the cookie cutter ideal of education for children and encourage their creativity instead of squashing it with medication and overbearing rules.

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