Good Mayan-End-of-the-World Eve people.......

I'm writing this post for a few reasons [1] to find out if others sometimes feel the same way I do (I expect some of you do sometimes...) [2] to find out other's views on what I've got to say and [3] ok- to vent and get it allll out there!

(*N.B- when I refer to 'Man'- I mean as in HuMAN, not Man as in male and I use 'He' & 'Him' to denote both male & female)

Call it reflection, philosophy or too much time to think, but I find myself pondering a lot on the nature of humans and the way we treat each other. I feel that in the hundreds of thousands of years that it's taken to evolve us in these beings, we are still no further from our shared neandertal DNA.

I'm addicted to reading the news and every time I click on to my chosen news-site, I'm bombarded with the cruelty of Man. Whether it's war, child abuse or mass shootings in an elementry school- all I ever see is the carnage that Man has created. Yet these are not unusual in society. Nearly every country in the world has its cross to bare on the subject of mass carnage & devastation, whether it's war in the Middle- East, peodophile rings in the UK or gun-crime in the US. This is on a bigger scale- the destruction of Man and the torture inflicted by Him is easier to notice when national or international news is covering it, yet it occurs on a smaller scale too and in truth, this is what scares me more. Murderous & abusive parents, abusive husbands, bullies, animal abusers- it feels as if being cruel or unkind is the norm.

 

I don't feel as if Man has evolved in an emotional sense. Instead, I think we've gone backwards. To get to the point that we're at, we would have worked together at some point- iradicated what was seen as destructive to our well-being and growth as humans. Yet now-a-days, the destructive is embraced; acceptance of war & even glorification of it, low prison sentances & so-called rehabilitation, excuses of 'mentally-ill' or 'bad childhood' for those who simply should have known better. I'm sick of the excuses and glorification of Man's destructive power and I'm a little sick of what I'm seeing around me.

 

These things pervade my mind frequently and I suppose, with the elementry school shooting in the US, last week, I've been thinking more about Man and the power He welds. Like every human with a slice of a heart, the school shootings made me cry and wonder 'Why?'. I'm a mother and like every other mother, losing my child is my worst nightmare. My heart aches for those children and their poor mothers. 

Yet my ponderings are not new- the way Man treats his companions has, for as long as I can recall, always confused me. Every day occurences of human indignance are what confuses me the most; the self-gratifying, the ignorant, the cruel-for-kicks-

Would anyone be disapointed if an asteroid did hit the earth tomorrow?  

I wouldn't be- for one, I'd be dead (lol) and two- I think it's a couple of hundred thousand years too late!

 

Just my thoughts.....

V