hope
Monday’s are always a disappointment but reading Shegetz’s thoughts regarding humanity was a particular low point – what’s even more disappointing is so many here supported his position. I’d like to reply if I may…

The reason we don’t get 'eaten by snakes' is not simply down to having knives, it is because we have the brains to outwit them, learn from our experience and crucially inform others that snakes might be dangerous.

The size of our brain has been the greatest asset for humans it has also been responsible for some of out worst traits - greed, jealousy, bigotry, racism. Granted a troupe of chimps will display similar characteristics but they don’t posses the big bulbous noggin required to wage their bad boy attitude worldwide. These are also traits that infants are generally free of, but they quickly learn by mimicking what they see around them.

The good news is that even miserable cynics like Shegetz realise that the desire to live in peace is something that is at least in theory a possibility; it would seem however our supposedly superior brains simply haven't evolved sufficiently to allow us to do so.

But there is hope. It will not be wars or bullets that destroy mankind, it will be the effects of continuing to shit in our own nest. It will be this that eventually brings about a catastrophic global cull of humans, which in all reality is our only hope of survival.

Hopefully the few that remain will have the brains to realise how close we became to making ourselves extinct, learn adapt and evolve from there.

But the late Bill Hicks put it far more eloquently than I…

“I had a vision of a way we could have no enemies ever again, if you’re interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? It’s kind of an interesting theory, and all we have to do is one decisive act and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once. Here’s what we do. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year, trillions of dollars? Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one being excluded, not one, we could as one race explore outer space together in peace, for ever.”
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 10:56, Reply)