The Future From Within
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate."
-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
Faces ashen with despair, minds deluged with decadent thoughts, history repeating itself. The hallmark of every major civilization, stagnancy, decadency, authoritarianism, are beginning to rear its fangs, permeating its vicious trend of the downfall of morality as we know of, and rise of anarchism. Are we reaching the edge of the morality cliff - to fall into a bottomless pit where distrust and devastation is part of everyday life, a life humanity has fought so hard to keep away from for centuries, a chilling forecast of a dystopian future for mankind?
Every country except the United States, whom has adopted presidential democracy, delved into authoritarianism. The human psychology is unique, despite millennia of evolution, we retained a common basic trait, the need for power. Be it genetically endowed or an aspect of parascience, it is puzzling to see that other Animalia of this world does not show this trait. Though there are similarities in territorialism, they do not indulge in the subjugation of their own species. Why do humans find joy in such act is still a mystery, perhaps in the future we may even develop technique to remove sections of the brain that give rise to such behavior - chilling thought, and yes such techniques do exist, and it is applied for certain extreme psychotic illnesses.
I do remember reading an article where a scientist once classified mankind as a virus life form. It was also stated that other than viruses, man too spreads exponentially and consumes in a devastating manner. Ergo, this leads us to a couple of interesting questions. Are we a plague of this world or part of its complex immune system that emplaces a feedback mechanism, which restarts a cycle of development every time an organism reaches a stated limit? If not, why then are there no other Animalia that falls under this category? Perhaps this will be another question left unanswered.
Maybe if one day, someone were to ask you, what is your purpose in life, you should proudly say "To spread humanity exponentially and consume this world to its core!" Or perhaps we should just seek reprieve amongst the various religions upon this world and hope for the best.
-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
Faces ashen with despair, minds deluged with decadent thoughts, history repeating itself. The hallmark of every major civilization, stagnancy, decadency, authoritarianism, are beginning to rear its fangs, permeating its vicious trend of the downfall of morality as we know of, and rise of anarchism. Are we reaching the edge of the morality cliff - to fall into a bottomless pit where distrust and devastation is part of everyday life, a life humanity has fought so hard to keep away from for centuries, a chilling forecast of a dystopian future for mankind?
Every country except the United States, whom has adopted presidential democracy, delved into authoritarianism. The human psychology is unique, despite millennia of evolution, we retained a common basic trait, the need for power. Be it genetically endowed or an aspect of parascience, it is puzzling to see that other Animalia of this world does not show this trait. Though there are similarities in territorialism, they do not indulge in the subjugation of their own species. Why do humans find joy in such act is still a mystery, perhaps in the future we may even develop technique to remove sections of the brain that give rise to such behavior - chilling thought, and yes such techniques do exist, and it is applied for certain extreme psychotic illnesses.
I do remember reading an article where a scientist once classified mankind as a virus life form. It was also stated that other than viruses, man too spreads exponentially and consumes in a devastating manner. Ergo, this leads us to a couple of interesting questions. Are we a plague of this world or part of its complex immune system that emplaces a feedback mechanism, which restarts a cycle of development every time an organism reaches a stated limit? If not, why then are there no other Animalia that falls under this category? Perhaps this will be another question left unanswered.
Maybe if one day, someone were to ask you, what is your purpose in life, you should proudly say "To spread humanity exponentially and consume this world to its core!" Or perhaps we should just seek reprieve amongst the various religions upon this world and hope for the best.
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