We'll taste the cup of kindness yet...

Well, Probably not, but isn't it nice to dream?

I think I just accidentally pasted a cheats code into this... ::Ahem::

Welcome ladies, getlemen and various rodents, to the year 2003. The newsmen tell me that the catch-cry of this years new years celebrations were prayers of peace. Except where I was, where the cry was 'What the hell happened to all that summer? and why is it raining HERE? We don't need rain!' Which is true, concrete doesn't absob rain so good. They need rain north of us. And west of us, over the gulf. And pretty much everywhere else in the country except perhaps north Australia, since it's still dry as a bone out there.

That asside, back to the peace. The cynic in me believes we're going to get about as much peace as a cat in a dog pen. Peace goes against the grain of human nature. We have a genetic pre-disposition to traits that would have served us well in the days of small clans of nomadic monkeys- An aggression towards any other monkey coming onto our lands and towards each other in an effort to become top monkey and be the one to continue your genetic lineage. Such traits are still dominant in us- They don't go away simply because they lack relevance in the society we have created for ourselves.

Or do they? I'm not going to get into the discussion of the evolutionarry freeze or the selfish Y chromasome (Not men, I mean the actual chromasome), but oyu can't break human nature. Maybe on an individual level yes- Some individuals are extermyl smart and can work their way around it, understand what is driving them and then combat it as they have had previously dictated to them by whatever doctorine. Modern religions work on a mass basis- Many people, without thniking, curb their natural instinct to bitch-slap their way to the top of the pecking order and instead either use more subtle methods of status items, money, or by being exessively good-willed to show-up others who follow the same doctorine. This way, they don't have to think about their nature or understand it, they have a specific ideal that alows them to beat themselves into submission and, with luck, cause themselves to conform to the social standars which were enfoced to compensate for the current living arrangements. Which were in no way the arangements we evolved (Or were created, if you so desire to take a religious view of the whole situation) to cope with. We were ment to live in small groups, but as our groups become larger a code must be enforced to prevent us from killing each other. This is a moral code.

The problem with a moral code is that it sometimes enforces uneccesarry or destructive behavior. In the eyes of other moral codes, that is. This leads to fights as people try desperately to preserve their own moral code by rendering it worthless in the hoeps that they can either destroy their oponants code or sway them to their own. Which never works, probably never will, and is one of those annoying glitches of the human psyche that makes me want to go around gouging out the frontal lobes of passers-buy with a spoon.

Fighting is human nature, war is their natural state of being. But on the scale we have created, they are dangerous to ourselves mentally as much as physically. It makes me angry t think of the pointlesness and the waste of life, that people will rush of to slaughter each other and nothing willl change. Not really - The sun will still rise, people will still try to make their living, and one or another nesw power may rise. But, alas, I am human. And with this unfortunant condition comes the mad desire to protect my lands and way of life. As it stands right now, I don't feel they are threatened so I have no great desire to act out in their defence. But they are always threatened, always will be threatened and will always change. And there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it, because that's just the way things are. You want to change it, you go ahead. They will call you anti-revolutionarry. They will say you stand in the way of progress. And you will be- That's what people do these days. They evolve their landscapes and living bases to compensate for the fact that they can no longer evolve themselves.

And, if you don't mind, I'm going to try to avoid bitching about monothesist religions

It almost semes a shame we were alowd to be brought into existence. But where here now, and I guess we're stuch with each other. I just hope we don't fuck every other living creature on the planet over in our quest to make ourselves superior and, in doing so, destroying all creatures around us. At leas I hold some hope of this, however unlikely this may be.

Again, it would go against our nature. And no matter how hard you try, you can't expect one species to act completely against their nature all at once. A small group of people may be able to change the world, but they do it by redirecting a part of our nature into another avenue. And how long can that last before it returns itself to it's natural direction? Our minds are so simple, so suseptable to believing what were told as they try desperately not to think that it is dificult to change. People will believe anything if it means they don't have to change. It doesn't make me angry I guess, just a little frustrated. I really despise being human, but I can't change that. Nor can I change my instinctual drive. Even this rebeling, the condemning of war and the nature of my species is only another aspect of human nature- Self preservation and the desire to rebel. Acompanied, of coruse, by the need to believe that someone else would do the same to us. Because if they do, we could survive where, naturally, we would be cleansed from the genetic pool.

::shrug:: Maybe it could to with a good clean, who knows? I just don't want to be one of the ones culled.

Later, I will discuss the small-scale implications of human nature. It might be easier for you all to comprehend, although I'm sure it will probably sound twice as bitter.

"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
~Mark Twain

- posted by Washi @ 1:20 pm