Saturday, February 26, 2011

Random Comment #1

Original Comment:
we'll soon go extinct if we ever stop fighting, all of our greatest works and accomplishments have come from conflict.

Response:
I'd be more inclined to think that many of our greatest works and accomplishments have been achieved despite the conflict and not because of them. Currently we're back to a childish mentality where we are still afraid of the cycles of life and death, rather than embracing the understanding of mortality. The first thing we need to reform our ideas that stem from life, death, and of course birth.


We still cannot get it through our head that a child born in a terrifying world will be terrified, and a child born in a holy world will be holy. We've become obsessed with these ideas of genetics determining personality, and our insistence that because I am me, I must be the most important and therefore the most "genetically perfect". We don't understand that we continue to associate with our own beliefs as being the best(because its all that we know). This only increases as we become more and more mentally separated. Slowly as we delve into the internet, and as our children delve even further into their own self-serving persona's via facebook and the like, we will drift away from other humans and therefore humanity itself.

Because I have decided that "I" am genetically perfect, everyone except me must die, and I must give birth to the entire new super-race of me-copies, where all my rules are followed by my me-copies. I must be the new Adam or the new Eve. Maybe I can use the power of science to make me both the new Adam AND the new eve via cloning. And thus chaos ensues.

Conflict is bred from our attitudes, not the other way around.

(Okay rant over.. I got carried away....)

1 comment:

Liam_McGonagle said...

No, I dig it.

It's so easy for people to get wrapped up in the individual brilliance of isolated epiphanies and insights and lose the big picture.

Too bad humans aren't like the Tralfamadore aliens in Kurt Vonnegut's novels, who can experience that totality of experience all at once, without shattering it into a weird kalaidascope of nonsense the way that linerally-oriented species like humans do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore