Humans - Not really the superior beings

This is going to be my last post for the year and I wanted it to be something special. This topic came about because of the many reasons, 1 which stands out – Copenhagen. The most significant meeting of leaders, in the world, gathered to fight global warming but failed to reach any substantial decision.

We have been victims to the constant barrage of junk information claiming that human beings are the most superior beings and masters of the earth.

Well I would like to disagree and there are several reasons why we aren’t. Here are my 5!

We are parasites: "In general, parasites are much smaller than their hosts, show a high degree of specialization for their mode of life, and reproduce more quickly and in greater numbers than their hosts."

"Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the host." Wikipedia. Pretty self explanatory.

Our goal is a ‘piece of paper’: I think this is, by far, the irony that ‘breaks the camel back’. Capitalism is all about money. Human beings have gone to extent of endangering our own habitat to profit monetarily. If we were the smartest and most superior beings then this should be a no brainer ‘Ensure the survival of your kind’. However the most superior beings on the planet earth are slaves to an inanimate object. “The creator is a slave to the creation”. Weird?

Irrelevant measures of Success: From heart transplants to sex changes, going to moon or building the tallest towers that reach the sky. We use these unnecessary achievements as indicators of our success as a race. We, as a race, should be concentrating on how we live responsibly and interdependent with the world around us. Not go and fuck up the balance that exists. Now I know a lot of you would say what is wrong with heart transplants and other surgeries that save lives. Well it’s called survival of the fittest. Nature has a way of creating a balance so that everything is in sync. After our so called medical achievements there are more people on the planet and even more people that are dying of hunger, there are more species animals and insects that are going extinct every year and there is more disharmony in our societies.

What’s with going to the moon and wanting to find life on Mars? We have a perfect planet that we are destroying and looking for alternative planets to inhabit. Here’s a suggestion – lets protect our planet so we don’t need to move out of it. How about that?

The ‘ant colony’ syndrome: Everybody knows how an ant colony works. Now picture that you are hovering over the country you currently live in. Doesn’t that bare a striking resemblance to an ant colony? You have one leader – The head. And then you have the rest who work tirelessly building the colony. It could be directly – e.g. Real Estate or indirectly- e.g. Taxes. After all of this we still haven’t got ‘our colonies’ to function perfectly as an ant colony. We are the superior race!

The Brain: The human brain is considered to be the most complex organ till date and the most complex of all other creatures. You would think that with a superior brain we would be happier. The irony is that animals, with the lesser, non-developed, non-superior brain, are happy as long as they have food to eat.