Human Nature

The fundamental nature of us human beings lies within a slice of cake.

Looking hungrily at the slice of cake on my plate the dog looks hungrily up, he has been fed earlier today but he wants more and he will want more until he explodes. His eyes don't move from the cake and his intentions are clear, his shame non-existent.

The bible speaks of a passage when god strides through the Garden of Eden looking for Adam, Adam who has just eaten the apple which invoked the intelligence of the gods on this naïve silly creature. Adam and Eve had their first slice of shame as they hid their bodies from view, perhaps with intelligence comes this urge to hide oneself. As god himself strode through the garden fully clothed it is easiest to apply the do as I say not as I do parenting approach to this scenario. The Father was angry, angry in the way a mother shouts at the child who has just touched the iron even when told not to. Of course the idea of the Lord of our Father a god comes from a need within each one of us, we are all children still and we are scared, alone inside and the only ones to comfort us are often older children.

In truth we are result of a logical chemical and physical equilibrium and entropy, from where all matter came from we don't know where or why and that is scary. People often say the acceptance of a divine presence is the easiest way out, but surely this scenario is just as impossible. What if I said that parallel with the concept of an omnipresent god lurks the possibility that every one of us and everything in this universe is god itself?

As organic molecules formed the tendency of some essence of every cell on the earth to pass itself on arrived and hence we collectively became the essence of every cell that ever wasn't destroyed. Selection pressures direct push us away from individual creatures passing their traits on randomly when our environment no longer requires. In the right circumstance intelligence is just a random and useless inheritance. Some of the 7 cardinal sins once denounced as the root of evil might just be the cornerstone of our own existence. Lust, important for ensuring the urge to pass on DNA. Gluttony and Greed, in a tough icy prehistoric world an individual would always need these turned on just to scrape at anything they find and stay stocked up. Fear is a horrible trait and one of the most vital tools for staying alive before now; we have fear of many things and combining with our own intelligence we can fear things we never need to, (balloons?) (Our own insignificance? how insignificant can we be if our own insignificance is insignificant). All these traits we need to survive individually considered the evil within are veiled over by all the traits we need to survive as a group and hence individually. Beauty, generosity, kindness, creativity? The latter 3 of these traits I speak of are the ones pertaining to our intelligence, our hiding technique, trying to shield the fact that deep down we are deep down in it for ourselves as we had to be.

Typically when a creature is no longer efficient for its habitat it begins to decline or die out all together. We think of a habitat as a bunch of trees or rocks but what if we used our own intelligence and turned it in on itself by creating a new habitat all of our own? A habitat which no longer required intelligence in the vast majority of us? The vast majority of us are dying out our brains no longer used to scrape for survival and engage in tribe tactics we are bored and scared. Shouting in frustration our status's on Facebook for all and no one to see. We sit on the brink of our own decline as a society and yet our own defining feature and our own downfall is our own joker in the pack. We are scared and we are alone, left with only our ability to hide our selfishness and lie in shame remember though, we have also the ability to look deep within ourselves and realize we are all the same. Dostoyevsky once wrote that beauty will save the world, I say beauty will neither be our downfall nor our salvation, I say our own self realization and respect will save the world. I say I am a McDonalds employee with delusions of becoming a successful writer who secretly listens to lady gaga at night when no one can hear but pretends he likes rock'n'roll and you will say you are a rich doctor with money and a beautiful ear for classical music but you love me just the same. We may be alone and scared without a father but us as a society can be a father to itself if we can just stay open to each other.

If you want a slice of that cake another man possesses tell him you want it and tell him you don't need it and tell him you love him.

How can I expect you to respect anything said here if I post this anonymously I suppose I just have to hope......