 wildcat says: If we are to seek a destiny beyond our own bodies and our home planet, we must also be prepared to transcend Harmony. It is such a lovely word. John Lennon sang a melancholy dreamy inspiration for all of us in his song "Imagine". If only all of what he aspired for in his song were that easy. Although we humans may have succeeded in becoming the most prominent species on out planet, we are still largely divided amongst ourselves. There are those who have and those who do not. In every aspect of society, there is still, a distinct presence of discrimination; either pronounced or subtle. We compete with each other in ways that would fail to differentiate us from the other animals we have seemingly evolved from. Our history has been riddled with prolonged conflicts, encroachments, slavery , and genocides Wildcat, The problem seems that we have this new "organ", the frontal brain, witch is like some sort of amplifier for all our other functions. We are not only emotional, we are "over-emotional" - meaning : neurotic. We are not only seeking for territorial domination, we are seeking for monopolistic domination, even by mean of genocide. We are the only species that uses intra-specific murder as a normal way of being. I think we are also the only species that practices intra-specific parasitism (named : slavery). The question about the survival of our species seems first of all : how to harness our frontal-brain amplifier in a non-auto-destructive way ? I propose this as a personal definition... |
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