Realization By Fey Cha (04/16/10 17:18:00)
Since the beginning of this quarter I have become more aware of how pretentious we human beings are. Yes, we have advanced to the top of the food chain and have mastered tool use to create towering skyscrapers, the Internet, and indoor snow resorts but at the end of the day that doesn't mean shit for humanity. Humans have become so obsessed with trying to be the best at everything that we have completely lost track of our place on this planet. We reproduce, overpopulate, fight, destroy, rebuild, and repeat. We believe we are the dominating species just because we can kill or capture every other species but that only shows how foolish we humans truly are. In all reality, we are just another species on this planet. The only difference is that we are the most ignorant ones and the other species have to put up with our stupidity.
If life on Earth were a high school humans would be the freshmen. We are brought into this world thinking we know everything just because we are educated; we try to prove ourselves to everyone else when the upperclassmen could really care less. We’re loud and obnoxious and don’t know our limits. LIMITS!
Breakthrough!
Humans fail because they don’t know their limits. Humans don’t know when to stop. The moment they find a good thing they try to get as much of it as they can. The best example is the simple idea of how humans prize an object not by its abundance but by its scarceness. Yes, it follows the law of supply and demand but in nature people tend to overlook the rate of production of these objects. It seems like the term limit is no longer a term referring to a maximum but more of a goal. I just hit 300 words with that last sentence so I shall continue this analysis on another reflection. Thanks for reading!
[Write Comment]Comment by kjhoward (04/23/10 14:13:16):
I couldn't agree with you more. I've been realizing the same things as the quarter continues and it makes me really upset that we humans have been so focused on becoming "better" and somewhere along the line decided that we have dominion over everything. We are so out of touch with our animal selves, that most of us couldn't survive in nature if we tried. And what is most frustrating is that so many people just don't give a shit. Your analogy of humans as freshman is accurate in my opinion.