Life, as a general phenomenon on Planet Earth, has no meaning. No matter how much you spin it, it doesn't have. Life has no meaning, one has to make sense.
As far as we know, life began with a "primordial soup" in the seas and, little by little, in a time of millions and millions of years, it has evolved evolutionarily to humans and living beings today. And all this happened in solitude, because I must tell you that the most constant question of living beings - after being destined to die - is their loneliness in front of Nature.
Without the human being, life simply ate and killed living beings, all being pure food and evolutionary competition. While one species disappeared simply by "natural selection", in another, due to an incomprehensible and inexplicable chance, a mutation appeared that served to survive and, directly or indirectly, eliminate competition.
Without the human species there was no good or bad "people." An animal was the food of another and the oldest, sick or vulnerable, the targets to be eaten. If there was a species that survived by eating herbs, in perfect balance with its environment, a meteorite would come and remove them from the face of the Earth, without explanations, without "justice", for no other reason than the actions and activities of an extended Nature beyond land borders.
If you review it thoroughly, without "escaping" to any philosophy or religion, or to too many elaborations of the intellect, you can realize that, no longer only life, Existence itself, is filled to the edges of emptiness. And that everything that arises from that emptiness is an invention of our intellect. A sometimes noble invention, yes.
With the human being on the scene, the only way to see insects, animals, viruses, in short, to all of Nature (hurricanes, earthquakes, Black Holes swallowing Galaxies, etc.) without evil, is by taking out humanity ( and its attributes) of the equation.
However, Nature also crosses us. A human thief, in full use of his faculties and in full physicality, steals an old man and takes away what little he had for medicines. Because it is easier, because the old man is more vulnerable, for whatever reason ...
Then, the human brain invents Justice: the concept, the papers and the buildings.
Take a second to think, sociologically and anthropologically, how our ancestors did thousands of years ago, without institutionalized State or Religion, to establish authority and, subsequently, a certain order in the clan.
The events could have been like this, for example: human ancestors established minimum rules and gave meaning to those rules. That sense was not understood or accepted by everyone, so the best way to enforce those rules was to resort to people's primitive reactions (cause fear, for example). The mechanism, then, became sometimes more subtle, thus creating a mystical, spiritual concept, "a beyond", which would endow the leader, or who assumed leadership, with a halo of authority and power (to be able to enforce those rules) beyond its territory. In this way, a young ancestor of ours hundreds of thousands of years ago, being alone and away from his clan, could he have contained stealing or doing some harm for his own benefit, by remembering the message of his leader, which said he could see him even if he was not present and, therefore, punish him if he committed a foul.
Of course, all of this was "fine" if whoever assumed the leadership was fair or good people. But what happened when the leader was a despot? "The universe everywhere seems to reward cruelty with power," said one movie ... The bad leader generated dissatisfied people who had to manage to survive, break free and prevent future suffering. The negative part of a story has generated in individuals an ingenuity to overcome obstacles. Well, we don't have to be very intelligent to observe how much the suffering has helped to bring forth the concepts of good and evil.
If you think about it, everything that exists in a society has been conceived by people who solved a problem: pain, suffering, discomfort, environmental, technical, etc. From personal identification cards, through alarms against theft or fire, to the bathrooms. Everything in society began from a "negative" state to a less negative state of affairs. It is logical that people do not want to suffer, that they do not want to be uncomfortable. It is because of this that society itself manufactured concepts and tried to shape its environment from them: Justice, good and evil, religion, gods.
But none of that exists. Life - from the earthworm eaten by the bird, to the killer whales playing with the seals, through the thief and the despot leader - makes no sense. Neither catholic god, nor muslim god, nor jewish god.
What happens when someone, without self-deception, with as much sanity as possible, without escaping from himself or anything, with his feet on the ground, realizes that the only real thing is that there is a desert?
There is a distance between what "is" and what is invented (no matter if the invention is something useful or not).
I only come to tell you that one is alone, because that's the way it is. That in that solitude there are also good people and that something can be invented in that desert. And, hopefully, something noble for humanity.
A pessimistic post.
 |
| Endeavour silhouette STS-130. NASA, Public Domain. |
As far as we know, life began with a "primordial soup" in the seas and, little by little, in a time of millions and millions of years, it has evolved evolutionarily to humans and living beings today. And all this happened in solitude, because I must tell you that the most constant question of living beings - after being destined to die - is their loneliness in front of Nature.
Without the human being, life simply ate and killed living beings, all being pure food and evolutionary competition. While one species disappeared simply by "natural selection", in another, due to an incomprehensible and inexplicable chance, a mutation appeared that served to survive and, directly or indirectly, eliminate competition.
Without the human species there was no good or bad "people." An animal was the food of another and the oldest, sick or vulnerable, the targets to be eaten. If there was a species that survived by eating herbs, in perfect balance with its environment, a meteorite would come and remove them from the face of the Earth, without explanations, without "justice", for no other reason than the actions and activities of an extended Nature beyond land borders.
If you review it thoroughly, without "escaping" to any philosophy or religion, or to too many elaborations of the intellect, you can realize that, no longer only life, Existence itself, is filled to the edges of emptiness. And that everything that arises from that emptiness is an invention of our intellect. A sometimes noble invention, yes.
With the human being on the scene, the only way to see insects, animals, viruses, in short, to all of Nature (hurricanes, earthquakes, Black Holes swallowing Galaxies, etc.) without evil, is by taking out humanity ( and its attributes) of the equation.
However, Nature also crosses us. A human thief, in full use of his faculties and in full physicality, steals an old man and takes away what little he had for medicines. Because it is easier, because the old man is more vulnerable, for whatever reason ...
Then, the human brain invents Justice: the concept, the papers and the buildings.
Take a second to think, sociologically and anthropologically, how our ancestors did thousands of years ago, without institutionalized State or Religion, to establish authority and, subsequently, a certain order in the clan.
The events could have been like this, for example: human ancestors established minimum rules and gave meaning to those rules. That sense was not understood or accepted by everyone, so the best way to enforce those rules was to resort to people's primitive reactions (cause fear, for example). The mechanism, then, became sometimes more subtle, thus creating a mystical, spiritual concept, "a beyond", which would endow the leader, or who assumed leadership, with a halo of authority and power (to be able to enforce those rules) beyond its territory. In this way, a young ancestor of ours hundreds of thousands of years ago, being alone and away from his clan, could he have contained stealing or doing some harm for his own benefit, by remembering the message of his leader, which said he could see him even if he was not present and, therefore, punish him if he committed a foul.
Of course, all of this was "fine" if whoever assumed the leadership was fair or good people. But what happened when the leader was a despot? "The universe everywhere seems to reward cruelty with power," said one movie ... The bad leader generated dissatisfied people who had to manage to survive, break free and prevent future suffering. The negative part of a story has generated in individuals an ingenuity to overcome obstacles. Well, we don't have to be very intelligent to observe how much the suffering has helped to bring forth the concepts of good and evil.
If you think about it, everything that exists in a society has been conceived by people who solved a problem: pain, suffering, discomfort, environmental, technical, etc. From personal identification cards, through alarms against theft or fire, to the bathrooms. Everything in society began from a "negative" state to a less negative state of affairs. It is logical that people do not want to suffer, that they do not want to be uncomfortable. It is because of this that society itself manufactured concepts and tried to shape its environment from them: Justice, good and evil, religion, gods.
But none of that exists. Life - from the earthworm eaten by the bird, to the killer whales playing with the seals, through the thief and the despot leader - makes no sense. Neither catholic god, nor muslim god, nor jewish god.
What happens when someone, without self-deception, with as much sanity as possible, without escaping from himself or anything, with his feet on the ground, realizes that the only real thing is that there is a desert?
There is a distance between what "is" and what is invented (no matter if the invention is something useful or not).
I only come to tell you that one is alone, because that's the way it is. That in that solitude there are also good people and that something can be invented in that desert. And, hopefully, something noble for humanity.
Comments
Post a Comment