The irony of our global situation.
By remembering what the rest of the world has forgotten, you can find out how humans were living before society got started in its modern form. Before the agricultural revolution 10,000 year ago or so, all of man used low-scale agriculture, hunting, gathering, and herding to get their daily sustinence. There was no one “right” way to do things. Different tribes did things differently, and they were happy that way.
Survival of the fittest applied to these people just as much as anyone else. The impressive thing about survival of the fittest is that it has been shown in humanity and nature in general that similar species can band together for protection to better ensure survival. This is why you often see humans together, apes together, wolves together, etc. All three know that staying together ensures more protection than if one wolf, one human, one ape was working alone all the time. I like bringing this up because of Ken Hensley’s little stunt of throwing a female student to the ground during a college lecture and taking her seat, then telling the professor that he was merely practicing Darwinian theory. Sorry, Ken. You’d have to read and understand the theory to do that conciously. Because you do it in your daily life. You claim that morality is from God, and that humans have no innate sense of morality or justice. This is true, but through learning from their peers, they gain this knowledge. Stealing (when you have a sense of property) isn’t “bad”, but if you get caught stealing from your own, it is bad because you are hurting your tribe for personal gain. Personal gain, while great, alienates you from the community around you.
This holds true in the present more than ever. We live in great comforts. Air conditioning, electronic devices that do amazing things, connectivity throughout the entire world. The price, however, is great. Not the pricetag, but the global price. The problem is everyone is forced to do the same thing. No one is allowed to decide how to live and creature their own society or culture. They are born into society, and if you are not going to be a contributing member of society, you can fuck off and die. YOU DON’T LIVE LIKE US, SO GET OUT. Well, that would be fine for diversity and all, but the problem is there is no where to run. The main parts of the world are now under totalitarian agriculture. The world is ours to conquer. We’re looking to conquer space and the stars if we can look beyond our own planet. This is folly.
The irony comes in here. In the world, living things proper on other living things. Plants grow from the bones and flesh of dead animals and from other plant matter. Animals like on other animals or plant matter, sometimes both. So now we have a situation on our hands. Human expansion is leaving less and less space for the citizens of nature to survive. Humans, at their current rate of expansion, will take over most parts of the world very quickly in the centuries to come. So in a world where we live on plants and animals and they live on us, I find it incredibly ironic that our global society is attempting to SAVE THE WHALES or SAVE THE RAINFOREST or SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES, or GIVE ANIMALS THEIR RIGHTS. When our main focus as a species is to protect our species (which we do too much in our current global setup), why are we working so hard as ensuring other species’ survival? This is shortsightedness at its worst. Stop working at fixing the problem, and go to the source of it: Rapid human expansion, a global culture that states we own the world, and food produced on a massive scale to feed humans and “livestock”, a fancy name for enslaved meat.
When are we going to learn, and what can we do?