Part One - Humans. The superior species

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Edited by CJ.Tointon

Nature is so beautiful because it is so beautifully balanced.  Imagine the chemical balances that keep everything stable in our atmosphere.  There's even a natural balance amongst predatory fauna.  Everything seems to be in balance - until we come to humans!   Humans bring about 'imbalance' by resorting to violence and Nature deals with imbalance in very particular ways. 

We humans think we have outsmarted Nature.  But it's in the 'nature' of Nature, to allow everything to find its own balance.  It's in the 'nature' of human brains, however, to not slow down long enough to learn from mistakes.  Instead, we push past them as if they don't matter.  By failing to deal with our mistakes at the time, we only allow them to fester.  

It's the combination of self-reflection and self-admiration in our species that is so destructive.  We have enough narcissism to keep us in a permanent state of imbalance.  Because we can't bear being anything but the dominant species, our power obsession turns towards megalomania.  Even if we're not conscious of it, it's this characteristic which makes us the most dangerous species on Earth.

If we humans eventually get to rescue ourselves from our feelings of superiority, we will have arrived at a balance point from which we can then progress to become true guardians for this planet.  Problem is, we first have to be conscious of this role and drop our belief that we are 'superior' because we have big brains!  

As the human brain advances in power, its grip tightens on the notion of human-entitlement.  We believe we have the right to take control of the planet, not for its sake but for the purposes of advantaging ourselves.  We believe we have been given 'free will' so that we can lord it over lesser brains.  In consequence, the human brain finds faster and more brilliant ways of growing bigger, but only by 'taking'.

The brain of the human grows by 'greeding' off things outside itself, not for the purposes of self-protection or survival but for enlarging its own power and strength in order to dominate smaller brains.  The human brain has become like an over-fertilised plant which has taken too much nourishment from the soil.  The soil can't sustain growth because it isn't being re-fertilised.  In other words, the 'taking' is not being balanced by 'giving-back'.

Appearances are deceptive. When the taking is done by force, it gives the impression of progress.  But in the long-run it simply accelerates our species' decline.  Force and violence are the mistakes we keep making because they seem to allow us to progress in defiance of Nature.