The Modern Age of Killing Fields (literally and figuratively) or On the Brink of an Evolutionary Correction
For brevity’s sake there is no need for an essay here, just some notables which all point to a near term major evolutionary correction, and this time from environmental changes caused not by natural disasters, but by the activities of a particular species. Guess which species?
suicide bombers, drone killings, smart missiles, decapitation, stoning, snipers, open carry, uzis, stand your ground, police attacks, terrorist attacks, drive-by shootings, drug wars, religious wars, ethnic wars, bars on home windows and doors, waterboarding, physical bullying, internet bullying, suicide from internet bullying, gang wars, school shootings, mall shootings, refugee camps, deaths by the millions from preventive diseases, death from starvation, death from inadequate health care coverage, deaths from climate change weather extremes, species extinction, hidden grenades/explosives, homemade bombs, deaths from revenge, non livable wages, unemployment, rising poverty levels, homelessness, 2 or more jobs to survive, corpocracitic greed, family values (circling the wagons around genetic cabals), human overpopulation (irresponsible reproduction), pollution, record huge military budgets, decline in quality of those going into teaching, decline of community, rise of global internet groups, billionaire sponsored elections, information overload, degradation of natural resources, divorce rate increases, rise in prison population, decline in local retail businesses, 2-5% of citizens owning 90% of a nations wealth, reduced work benefits, loss of retirement benefits, wage scale declines or stagnation, soaring medical costs, no global minimum wage, (increasing tax breaks, benefits, decreasing tax rates, increasing exemptions, increasing loopholes, reduced inheritance taxation—all of this for the already affluent), and so it goes.
All of the above contributes to, or are examples of, a global human population supporting violence as a means to an end, mostly selfish ends, reeking with lack of tolerance or empathy for diversity. Violence begets violence—it always has throughout human history. Fortunately, Mother Nature Bats last, and the laws which control the evolutionary process will continue to operate. It is we who go, TIME stays, and evolutionary progress will continue in ways beyond our comprehension, albeit there are often hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years, between temporary global setbacks in the process. There is sanctity of life for sure, but there is no sanctity of individual lives or even particular species. Life on this planet has never been one of good vs evil or God vs the devil—this is all human created delusional dribble. Progress over endless TIME is controlled by chance, genetics, environment, and diversity—with the useful triumphing over the useless. Thus, in the end, everything gets better in a progressive way, but on evolutionary time, not human time. We are here today, we are gone tomorrow, and evolution moves on. That is just the way it is. We can pray all we want, individually, or collectively, but prayer does not control the evolutionary process. Wherever there is a gift, there is a gift giver, proof enough for the existence of a God, but a God beyond our human power to define, and His laws govern the evolutionary process, not human created religious sects with outdated scriptures from past cultures.
The vastness of our universe, the eternity of Time, the diversity of life in this universe, the limitations of human intelligence, the illusion of our own individual importance in the evolutionary process, and the delusional belief in the sanctity of our lives, all generate stumbling blocks for us to understand the reality of our lives being lived in a ‘little gleam of Time between two eternities’. Without a logical basis for our realities, contentment becomes harder to achieve given the frustrations, disappointments, and failures of our expectations. Reality is found in nature along with clearer conceptions of God’s evolutionary process. As we lose no sleep over having not been present for billions of years in the past history of our Universe, we have nothing to fear from death—for while we are alive, there is no death, and when we are dead we have no life to worry about. In the long run we are all dead, and this itself is a good, since it makes way for new diversified life forms which then temporarily strut themselves on life’s stage and the show goes on. Let us simply be grateful for having had the chance to be a part of a process so everlasting and awesome.
