Sometimes it seems like we've charted a dangerous course for ourselves and would be nearly powerless to stop our own momentum should we want to.Hand-to-a-higher-power these thoughts came to me just within the last 3 hours. See, this is what happens when I'm in a writing phase - my mind goes 'round and 'round with useless crap like this until I write it down, and then it finally quiets. For a little while anyway. I'll be happy when this phase ends. Hope my movie watching phase is next, it's much less exhausting.
Some people think cockroaches are the ultimate survivalists, I disagree. Did you know there are people (descendants of Black Plague survivors) who have developed natural immunity to HIV/AIDS? Civilizations may rise and fall but human beings will be around until Earth's last gasp and, with our intelligence and ingenuity, likely beyond.
I can honestly say there are more things to dislike about the human race than to like, but our strengths are no less astounding for it.
Mother Nature demands her children devour one another to fuel the cycle of life. Humankind stands out in the brood because we don't merely eat and reproduce-- we imagine, we create.
With the help of evolution we've managed to humanize dogs to the point where it seems inevitable they will one day be able to hold conversations with us.
"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure."
- Agent Smith to Morpheus, The Matrix (1999).
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