Black V2.0
As I asked in my past post: Where do we fit in?
Let’s dig a little deeper, shall we?
Life works in wonderful and beautifully amazing ways. Take time to observe nature and you will see that every single living organism has a role, and that role affects every other organism along the food chain. Everything is co-dependent on each other creating a stable, and sustainable eco-systems that grow, evolve, and change over time.
Take a look on the plains in Africa. Lions hunt Gazelle. This has been occurring for thousands of years. It is a sustainable system of hunter vs prey. Every small and seemingly insignificant insect and bacteria also play a crucial role in this system as well. These systems of life have been fine tuned over countless years, and rely on each other for total harmonious survival.
Observe trees. They are perfect examples of a life form that has grown a certain way that will ensure it can survive. The leaves prevent sunshine and rain from drying or destroying the soil where the roots lay, and the branches are designed in a way that ensures it can bend with the wind without breaking. Trees are in fact examples of a life form that has grown simply to survive perfectly. Every part of it plays a hugely important role for its long life.
Let’s cut em all down.
In the ocean, arguably the most dangerous and difficult place for life to survive, organisms have all depended on one another, and although it is a continuous battle field of hunter vs prey, it is sustainable, and has been that way for millions of years.
Sustainable eco-systems are extremely delicate, and have been fine tuned for millions of years. Everything relies on everything to live and adapt.
Do you see how amazing and wonderful this is? Life has sustained itself for so long that evolution has taken place!! The time frames involved are so vast and large, that us as humans rarely appreciate it.
Humans. Where do our clumsy, wasteful, un-harmonious beings really fit into this beautiful system?
Are we really from here? Sounds crazy, and I know, most of you who were raised (brainwashed) by our school systems, and television will probably scoff at me now, and that is fine, because I scoff at your types every day. It’s only fair that you return the favour. How is it that everything on earth lives so perfectly together except us? We don’t fit in whatsoever. We destroy. Man has been responsible for the extinction of many species, and has driven countless close to it. Life on this planet has grown dependant on one another for survival, but it seems as though we are only getting the good end of the deal (survival, and trying to keep the sick alive), which is bad for everything else. It is so completely unnatural based on the simple fact that we just consume, and continuously grow in numbers.
And it’s true right? What good have we done for any other living organism, besides saving the ones from further human damage (oil spills, over-hunting etc)? We have drugs used to fight off bacteria, chemicals that clever marketers have led us to believe we need to use to “battle germs”, when in fact all it does is take something completely natural, and turn it into a chemical that is harmful for any living thing, including us: The same pills and chemicals that have made us even more susceptible to sickness than ever before.
I am asking myself this everyday as I observe nature and our place in it: Where do we fit in, in this beautiful harmony? If we are from here, then shit, we are the only living creature that is really fucking up the system.
Until next time,
Why do we always look up to the sky?
