Again first things first. The post is my personal opinion. I do not intent to change any body's view on anything , religion, faith or preferences.
Imagine a scene some thousands (or may be hundreds) of years from now. Imagine an alien kid talking to his mom. Oops sorry imagine there are aliens and imagine they have parents and that they talk.
Kid: Mom!!!! Our teacher told that the homo sapiens specie on planet earth had the most paradoxical end. And that we don't yet know what happened. Please tell me more.
Mom: Ok kid. listen. There is a planet many million light years from here. It is called earth. Earth had lots of natural resources. Much greater than present on any of the planets known to us. It had several thousand species, all very different from each other, bound by a common thread that they needed the planet for their survival. For many years they lived in harmony. There was one specie that eventually became more intelligent than the rest. It was called Homo Sapiens or humans. It understood how it can use the resources to a more effective use. And he began using it. But, it was a mean, selfish, cruel specie. He began exploiting the planet and resources more than he should have. Several species of earth became extinct because he killed them.
Kid: Killed them ALL???? There are several thousand organisms of every specie. He killed them all?????
Mom: yeah kid. Thats what he did. He killed them all. But the story does not end there. He was not just cruel to other specie. He had a strange wiring in his system. Humans fought with themselves too. Humans were divided into many groups. He split himself over land on earth, he called that countries. He split himself into belief systems, he called it religion. He also split based on color of skin, based on race and based on sexual preferences. And he was intolerant to all who had a difference of opinion. Inspite of having everything on the planet, humans were never at peace within themselves. After being the supreme specie on earth for several thousand years, humans had created a hole in their protective air layer, called ozone. He was responsible for extinction of several species. He was responsible for some irrevocable changes to his environment, like the temperature of planet getting raised by several degrees. And he had developed some very powerful weapons, to be used on other humans. He was always insecure though he was the most powerful being on earth.
Kid: But mom how did such a strong and intelligent specie come to an end. Did some other specie kill them all, as they had killed others????
Mom: Oh no kid... No specie rose against them. Scientists have put several theories and they are studying to know what killed them.
May be he died because the planet's environment had changed drastically and he could not live there. And no near by planet was fit to be his habitat.
May be he just killed himself. They had a big war and all died. The losers during the war and the winners immediately after that. This war could have any reason. Humans were never short of reasons to fight. It could have been over natural resources or boundaries or religion or any other equally irrational reason.
But, there is another theory. It required one male and one female to ensure continuation of specie. May be they started by not wanting the pain and effort it takes to raise a kid. Females and males in the beginning wanted their life too much and wanted to enjoy it fully to spend it raising a kid. And also, males start liking males more and females started liking females more. So, they could not have a next generation. And finally they lost the ability to reproduce.
Kid: But mom!!!!
Mom: yeah kid... all species know what they need to ensure that they live. They know that they have to eat, drink, save themselves from predators and reproduce. Scientists still don't know what killed humans, they say they can find HOW human specie ended but they can never find WHY it did? They say that humans themselves did not understand themselves. If humans would have understood why they are doing what they did, it would have never become extinct in the first place.
Kid: Mom... Its so sad.
Mom: yeah kid. This is the greatest paradox. This was the most hilariously sad end of the most intelligent fool known.
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8 comments:
Wow, this post was so true and I liked the way you presented the story, it was amusing and interesting to read.
And yes, .. I can already hear those same words come to actual life. I can hear the human clock ticking towards self destruction at a disturbing speed.
Everything you write is so true.
Oh, and I liked the pinch of sarcasm.
Thank you for posting. Now I have something to think about :)
Take care.
Ingrid
@only4blogs
Thanks. One for your comment, two for telling the difference between a diary and a blog. You are right in saying that things that ain't to be shared should be kept in diary instead. So, spying is the wrong term used by me, as much as I hate it, though.
And as far as your take on social service(actually it is serving oneself in long run) is concerned, I don't agree fully. One one must do, whatever one can. And since not everybody is willing to do their bit, some more concerned people have to carry their burden and join NGOs too. And no matter what your personal reason be, any good work done doesn't go waste. Even if some females participate because they are emotional and some guys join to woo them, if they clean a street, the street is cleaned. The final result is a better place.
@ingrid
Thanks. Am glad that you thought about the state of our world as much as I did.
it´s all true, it´s all life.
every single time I think of stuff like that I just want to hug someone - kinda sissy move, but I love it :p
very well written! :)
it just makes me sick to my stomach how people try to be better than one another by.. pushing others away and denying closeness. Oh well, hope always survives for future reference.
had a theory while reading it: the species outgrew their intelligence. Kept growing and growing and wanting more, until they all subconsciously decided.. to get more, they had to terminate one-another.
it´s nearly impossible to stay objective when taking action - true understanding reveals itself within time
.. I´ve done some thinking about it and usually it takes *3 time to figure out what you were doing, as in.. if you do something for a day, it takes you 3 days to figure out what EXACTLY you were doing :)
take care,
stay strong :)
@Raimo 'RayRay' Pregel
Thanks :)
I really like the way you have summarized..."the species outgrew their intelligence." Exactly, we are rational when dealing with matters of science and utterly irrational in dealing with social matters and each other. We have so much of chaos now, that it is difficult to know where to begin!!!!
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