Humanity is full of contradictions. Its origin and future makes more sense if scientifically explained. The contradictions are multiplied if we look for answers in creation myths. All creation myths defy logic and common sense. They wear out after a while and join the catalogue of wild tall tales.
Humanity is fascinated by the wild, but at the same time, it has actually an antagonistic relationship with the it, even though the wild seems to be its natural state and its fate.
We tend to tame all that is wild. Whether it is an animal, a plant or a whole ecosystem. We turn animals into pets, powerful trees into furniture or decoration, and we turn pristine environments into resorts. We want everything sanitized, safe, predictable.
Once we achieve that, we pollute everything we’ve cleaned and turn it into septic pool. That’s how forests turned into villages, villages turned into cities, and cities turned into concrete jungles where the survival of the fittest continues being the only real law.
We have outdone the most vicious wild predators. We have created an unpredictable and irrational breed of predators who have been able to incorporate the best civilization and technology can offer to their arsenal of killing tools. Unlike the natural wild, which obeys natural laws, the new wild breaks all, especially the ones the beasts themselves created to allegedly separate our kind from inferior ones. Every senseless crime, every war just proves how humanity perfected the art of deception and greed and added some cynicism to spice it up.
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This was my entry to @mariannewest and @latino.romano’s 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday Prompt: THE WILD. You can see the details here.
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Friend @hlezama these are spectacular ideas "This is how forests became towns, towns became cities and cities became concrete jungles, where the survival of the fittest remains the only real law", and it's very sad, because everyone we are human beings, with virtues and needs, who must help each other, that is, we have also converted the cities to do evil, instead of being more fraternal and brothers. Successes in such an educational publication. It was a great pleasure to visit you from Venezuela
Thanks, @omarrojas
There are, obviously, isolated instances of solidarity (I wrote about it in my previous post), but as a whole, we tend to make our societies more conflicting every day.
I do t see the day there is a massive reaction towards doing the right thing, stopping violence and injustice and demanding better leaders. It is always a possibility, but an evasive one.
That was one of the most fantastic posts I have read here so far. To be honest, I had to translate part of it with google, but I am more than touched.
A few days ago I was talking to someone who wrote to me here because I keep collecting rubbish and he told me to stop. It would be pointless anyway.
My answer was: If I have the choice to be Thanos or one of the Avengers, I want to be an Avenger, because I'd rather fight for it.
Since I heard today that the 2029 Winter Olympics will be held in a desert, I've been second-guessing my decision. We are not going to learn any more.
That makes me sad.
Thanks for writing this. !LUV
Thanks you very much. I appreciate your generous comment.
It is certainly disheartening, to say the least, to read or watch so many absurd news.
No matter what happens or how many examples of heroic or decent and inspiring behaviour we have, what dominates human activity and interest is the negative.
Kids copy destructive patterns of behavior at a rate that makes teachers and/or parents' efforts to guide them a Sisyphean task.
I am not even sure s drastic "shaking" will make any difference (we've had plenty of wars after what was supposed to be "the war to end all wars").
@eddwood(1/4) gave you LUV.
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