Will We Survive?

The Tragedy We've Become

One tragedy after another hits us like sledge hammers, wounding our collective psyches. We shed tears and our hearts bleed. But we soon forget and go about our business...until the next one. In the movie Matrix Mr. Smith tells Neo that humanity is a virus, a disease on the planet poisoning our environment and devouring our resources. When those resources get scarce we turn on each other. A sad commentary on mankind, but pretty accurate, nonetheless. Our religions don't save us from it. Our morals and ethics don't save us. Our laws don't save us. Science and rational thinking don't save us. In fact a very large percentage of our scientists and money works towards coming up with bigger and better ways to kill each other. We are our own worse enemy. In December of 2012, everyone is distracted by prophecies of doom brought about by, a comet, asteroid, rogue planet, solar flares, polar shifts, or Biblical Armageddon. All outside agents of disaster that we would have no control over. The sad truth is that the one thing that will probably take us down the path of extinction is mankind's own insanity. Something that you would think we should have outgrown or evolved away from by now. After all isn't self-preservation one of our fundamental instincts? Yet as a species, we seem hell bent on destroying our habitat and the whole human race. We – not God, not “it”, not “Them” but us. We are destroying us. And we are getting pretty good at it. I used to dream about how marvelous it would be to go traveling around like Captain Kirk having adventures all over the galaxy. But now the thought of us out there scares me more than anything else. We're not ready to be out there. There's something seriously wrong with us. We're flawed in a way that we don't seem to be able to fix. I know, you're sitting there thinking, “I'm not flawed. It's those guys over there. They're the ones that are flawed. I'm one of the good guys.” Hitler was definitely flawed maybe even insane. But what about a whole nation of people that followed him and allowed so many atrocities to occur. Were they not flawed as well? Surely a few million good people could have stopped one madman. But they didn't. Twenty five thousand people die every day from hunger on planet Earth. Gigantic grocery stores are filled to the max with food. Warehouses and granaries overflow, yet still they starve and we do nothing. Wars rage all over the world non-stop in one part of it or another and the threat of a total all out nuclear war is always a possibility. Are we insane? Maybe as individuals we're not. But mankind when weighed as a whole would definitely tip the scales in that direction. So do we deserve to continue? Should we survive? If I were God looking down upon the Earth, I would say absolutely not. I would get rid of humanity and let the dolphins have their turn. Will we survive? I would never count mankind out, because we have this amazing ability to adapt. But we cannot survive as we are today. We must change. And we don't have time for something like evolution to do it for us. We have to take charge of our own evolution. We must change ourselves before it is too late – before we join so many other species that have gone before us into oblivion.