Homo sapiens have dominated the planet earth for millenniums as they kept evolving in to an incredibly rapacious species. But that dominion came with disastrous consequences. As we progressed, we left behind a trail of destruction, anarchy, disarray, that would keep us at the helm of the food chain but with little consideration for the enormous life forms that the planet sustains.  Nature nurtures all forms of existence, living and inanimate, without discernment. However, we humans who form a mere 0.01% of all life forms have annihilated innumerable living species and exploited natural resources with utter disregard for nature. We brandish our superiority (sic) with the belief that our rise to the top of the food chain is divinely ordained. But if I were to contemplate eruditely, I find the many other life forms that inhabit the earth to be highly evolved as the list of infamy that I am to relay below is not of their doing.  

We are inherently cruel, violently self serving. Blood and gore come naturally to us. Brutality and viciousness forms the core of our DNA. We are the only species that slaughter, exploit and abuse for sheer unadulterated pleasure. Humans have monstrously slayed more of their own species than any other living being would have done harm to their own. We have harnessed nature and all that it has to provide for our selfish gains. Our greed has dictated the course of this planet’s trajectory for millennium’s. Our hands are washed in the blood of the innocents !  Our history is replete with our Machiavellian streak of ignominy.  

We call ourselves intelligent and have an exalted opinion of ourselves. We believe that we have made the planet a better place for habitation. Have we ? We call ourselves scholarly, the repository of wisdom and sagacity? Are we ? We call ourselves spiritual with reverence for imaginary celestial beings and mythology,  whilst we exterminate planet earth of its varied life forms with a viciousness that is raucous. We call ourselves moral and righteous!  Are we ? we call ourselves just and considerate ! Are we ?  We have harnessed technology and science but we are ensconced and surrounded by superstitious, irrational, unreasonable and unempirical beliefs. We call ourselves creative, humble and benign ! Are we ?  Have we created a just society or a rampantly exploitative life that epitomizes slavery, racial prejudice, tribal allegiance, jingoism and misogynism? We have labelled all life forms that inhabit planet earth as wild, untamed and savage. And call ourselves civilized ! However, it is we who are barbaric, feral, unrestrained and uncivilized. Planet earth is for our singular benefit and for that we go to any lengths to decimate and eradicate. All in all, we remain a non-inclusive society.

If the planet earth were to be absorbed by a celestial black hole and vanish without a trace, the universe would hardly notice. Negligibly trivial as one would say. To the ever expanding universe the existence of planet earth is inconsequential. Similarly, if the human race vanishes from planet earth, it would be inconsequential. The remaining life forms would evolve and nature would in a few million years become pristine. Existing life forms would evolve hopefully in to wise beings who would then discover the monstrosity of the human existence. In the millenniums to come, the many species who would roam planet earth would contemplate in disdain as to how intensely violent were humans. They would shudder, that such a species ravaged this lovely planet ! 

January 13, 2022