We try to possess the infinite wisdom of the world, we study books and scriptures, cave drawings and try to decipher symbols and diagrams in the pyramids. Of course there are people who can talk a good game, even sound pretentious while doing it but do we really possess the potential to hold and harness such a thing as infinite wisdom?
For ages we have seen humanity take steps towards a 'brighter' future. We have given these projects names with substance and codes but we usually end up taking a step back. The Manhattan Project was developed because Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt saying he`s concerned that the Germans were making or going to make nuclear weapons, so quite possibly the mind set of then famous scientists would have been to reach a point where the Natzi`s would not corner their countries with the threat of a nuclear attack.
Whatever the concerns were noble or not, imagining such a time or the pressure of people literally in a war is hard for a pampered new age boy like me. The only point i want to make is that even after the war, humanity decided to keep making these bombs, even after the world has seen first hand what destruction it entails. And the idea that the amount of fear humans possess for the weapon is its main appeal, baffles me still.
We fight wars, all the time. Not just between countries, but in them as well. Religious and ethnic cleansing, civil wars mostly because no two people with power think alike or people with power can accumulate and hone powerless people and make up their own personal army. We have fought for our religion, our rights even for a dream and however noble we may think our fight is, the sad part of it is, why did we have to fight in the first place? It is a sad history, the history of humanity, a being which considers itself superior to all others in terms of intelligence as well as revered as special in the many books from the many religions we obey. A being that has been portrayed throughout the ages in tablets, parchments and now in our iphones as being so wise and brave always fighting evil.
Why are we evil? Why is it so hard for us to let each other be? Even in a religious standpoint people of different religions hate each other. Atheist hate religious people. We keep taking pot shots at each other and in the end it gets blown up and each party kills or maims innocent victims from each side forever destroying any chance of ever reconciling. We are like kids who cant play in the same sand box because we cant share it.
So a being with so many faults, given that we have the capability of, for lack of a better word, 'storing' infinite wisdom, its scary to imagine what machines of destruction or plans of evolution paved with 'good intentions' that we will come up with. Ultimately even if in our many books where the end of the world, judgment day is declared as day which humanity cannot evade, would it be the hand of God that delivers it or will we literally blow us all up sky high?
For ages we have seen humanity take steps towards a 'brighter' future. We have given these projects names with substance and codes but we usually end up taking a step back. The Manhattan Project was developed because Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt saying he`s concerned that the Germans were making or going to make nuclear weapons, so quite possibly the mind set of then famous scientists would have been to reach a point where the Natzi`s would not corner their countries with the threat of a nuclear attack.
Whatever the concerns were noble or not, imagining such a time or the pressure of people literally in a war is hard for a pampered new age boy like me. The only point i want to make is that even after the war, humanity decided to keep making these bombs, even after the world has seen first hand what destruction it entails. And the idea that the amount of fear humans possess for the weapon is its main appeal, baffles me still.
We fight wars, all the time. Not just between countries, but in them as well. Religious and ethnic cleansing, civil wars mostly because no two people with power think alike or people with power can accumulate and hone powerless people and make up their own personal army. We have fought for our religion, our rights even for a dream and however noble we may think our fight is, the sad part of it is, why did we have to fight in the first place? It is a sad history, the history of humanity, a being which considers itself superior to all others in terms of intelligence as well as revered as special in the many books from the many religions we obey. A being that has been portrayed throughout the ages in tablets, parchments and now in our iphones as being so wise and brave always fighting evil.
Why are we evil? Why is it so hard for us to let each other be? Even in a religious standpoint people of different religions hate each other. Atheist hate religious people. We keep taking pot shots at each other and in the end it gets blown up and each party kills or maims innocent victims from each side forever destroying any chance of ever reconciling. We are like kids who cant play in the same sand box because we cant share it.
So a being with so many faults, given that we have the capability of, for lack of a better word, 'storing' infinite wisdom, its scary to imagine what machines of destruction or plans of evolution paved with 'good intentions' that we will come up with. Ultimately even if in our many books where the end of the world, judgment day is declared as day which humanity cannot evade, would it be the hand of God that delivers it or will we literally blow us all up sky high?
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