It seems like people
don't care what happens to other people as long as they get what they
want. You can destroy a family and destroy someones future, hurt someone who is trying to get his life started, and it's okay as long as you get your
free money. Free rides at any cost, right!? Doesn't matter who you have
to hurt to get it.
This happens on an individual level, but also on a much larger collective level. On a smaller scale, people scam other people to get ahead either by
stealing their identity, mugging them on the street at gun point,
obtaining their trust in order to get bank information from them, claiming outrageous amounts of money in a minor car accident,
hacking their bank accounts, or whatever it is. And on a larger scale, we have corporations and banksters buying
off senators, presidents, and other politicians to get the okay to
infringe on our civil liberties, destroy the environment, poison our
water supply, pollute our air, and monopolize our food supply--all for
personal gain and not a care in the world for future generations. As long as this quarter's profits are as good as or better than last quarter, it apparently doesn't matter.
When is this insanity--this cut-throat "personal
gain at any cost" and cancerous behavior going to end? When are we going to
figure out that the "every man for himself" mentality is not working and
will sooner or later destroy us? What is it going to take for us to
figure this out!? Why is it so hard for people to understand this? Is it
greed that blinds us from this undeniable truth? Open your eyes before
it's too late! Chances are the extinction that we face will be due to
our own collective negligence.
Hopefully humankind's infancy comes
to an end soon, and we can finally learn how to work together instead of
against each other, learn how to watch out for one another and the only
planet we have. Hopefully we will understand that what we are doing now
can and will destroy us, BEFORE we kill each other off, die of poverty,
war, and radiation poisoning. Hopefully we can learn before then!
At the rate we're going now,
the way people behave towards each other and to their own planet, we
don't have to worry about asteroids, gamma rays, solar flares, or the
Earth being flung out of it's orbit by a rogue planet. We're going to be
the death of ourselves! I don't know how long it's going to take for
the human race to get this through their thick skulls, but hopefully it
doesn't take too long. It's like we're in a money-induced coma and
nobody is watching our vital signs!
If this all seems unorganized
because of how I use examples of personal scamming along with
profit-motivated environmental destruction, global poverty, and war,
keep in mind that these seemingly different behaviors come from the same
egotistical self-centered behavior. Altruism is truly our only hope for
survival. That is why the majority of the world's belief systems preach
it--because it is a fact that working together is essential for not
only one's own individual survival, but the survival of the human race
as a whole. When you have people working against one another for
personal gain at any cost, what you get is completely unsustainable, and it
will have detrimental consequences.
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a
single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is
doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of
space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow
vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space
and time.”
-Carl Sagan
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