[mortifiedpenguin]

I have finally become sane.

What the hell is wrong with every single person on this planet? Why do we fight each other? We are the SAME FUCKING SPECIES!!!!! What the hell is wrong with everyone?

Why do we kill each other? Why was the bomb invented? Why was the nuke invented? Why is there a such thing as a torture device? Why are there racists? Why do we crash planes into buildings and kill 3,000 people? Why did we kill the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why did Japan even attack the US in the first place? Why was there a World War I and World War II? Why has there ever been a single war? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?????????

If we had just all united as one race, we wouldn't have any problems. We could have done great things long ago. We could have the greatest technology in the universe. Colonies all across the galaxy. Cures for everything. No wars. There would be no Peak Oil. We could have built a utopia. How did we mess up? HOW THE HELL DID WE MESS UP??????

This is absolutely pathetic. There should never, ever, ever be a reason for one human being to kill another. There should never be a reason for two people to fight each other. It's never too late for us to unite, pick up the pieces, and solve the problems that really matter, but we won't because we are just too stupid. We are pathetic. And I am done with it. I quit. I'd rather die than be a part of the absolutely pathetic race called humans.

Goodbye.

[mgibbons19]

you don't sound sane

[lateStarter]

Good question. As long as you assume we are functioning at the same level as yeast, it would be obvious. You are assuming that we as humans have some higher qualifications. I agree that it could have and should have been so much better. But, it won't be. Get ready for the ride down. Hang on tight...

[cynthia]

I hear your despair.
Do you have family? Friends? Go be with them. NOW. Suicide is a selfish act that devastates those left behind.
Focus on thoughts and activities where you feel you have control. Take a break from the news-a self-imposed black-out.
Go volunteer.
We can only "fix" one person at a time and that starts from within.
If you commit suicide, you die a broken person.
Don't give up.
cynthia

[venky]

Ah yes, the supposed greatness that human beings are capable of and the frustration at our stupidity in squandering our inheritance on this planet. Been there my friend.

But was this greatness in our grasp in the first place? Could the outcome have been different? Our human beings in a 'collective', such as the entire population on this planet any different from yeast on a petridish?

[RonMN]

Personally, I really liked that rant...I also agree with it.

Answer 1. We never really evolved from cavemen (we just made bigger better "tools".

Answer 2. Imagine there's no countries...it isn't hard to do...
Nothing to kill or die for...& no religion to...
Imagine all the people...living life in peeeeeeace YOUHOOOOOOoooooOOOooo

[keehah]

Stress response to 'civilization'?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '(')In) The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are
largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of our urban surroundings. Indeed, our behavior often startlingly resembles that of captive animals, and our developed and urbane environment seems not so much a concrete jungle as it does a human zoo.

Animals do not normally exhibit stress,
random violence, and erratic behavioruntil they are confined.

Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behavior is intensified in todays cities. Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl.

[mmasters]

Reminds me of how I felt when I got out of college and entered the corporate world of wall street. lol

Yeah, it's bullshit, but eventually if you really want to make a difference you'll come to fully accept it all.

Additionally you'll work with it to make ends meet best for yourself. Maybe even come to take over a little nitch in the world and make it the best.

Fight battles small enough to win, big enough to matter.

There's a big battle ahead for all of us, best understand all you can to make the most of it. The people that REALLY understand what's going on and play the system right will be THE evolutionary force of the future. Peak oil is a chance for those in the know to strut their stuff amongst the sheep and make things happen.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'W')hy do we fight each other? We are the SAME FUCKING SPECIES!!!!! What the hell is wrong with everyone?

[oowolf]

How about:

"Intellectual" knowledge (2+2=4) can be transmitted from generation to generation, by rote.

while

"Emotional" knowledge (It is better to give than to recieve") must be personally learned, by experience, by each individual of each generation.

So, we can build a hydrogen bomb through accumulated intellectual knowledge, but we have to learn every generation, all over, that building such things is really stupid, and USING such things is suicidal insanity.

[BigTex]

There is no magic to being the same species. Other members of the same species fight--monkeys, apes, goats, bulls...the difference with us is we use tools and out fighting makes use of these tools, which causes us to kill each other in territorial and ideological turf wars.

Just like the animals, only scaled a lot larger.

[Madpaddy]

If I'm reading his post right mortifiedpenguin has gone and offed himself. Sad really, it's people liek that we need.

[Rabbit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', ' ')Is the entire population on this planet any different from yeast on a petridish?

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', ' ')And I am done with it. I quit. I'd rather die than be a part of the absolutely pathetic race called humans.

Goodbye.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'L')et me get this straight. You abhore the violence that men commit against one another, yet you choose to commit violence against yourself.

[Vexed]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('keehah', 'S')tress response to 'civilization'?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '(')In) The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are
largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of our urban surroundings. Indeed, our behavior often startlingly resembles that of captive animals, and our developed and urbane environment seems not so much a concrete jungle as it does a human zoo.

Animals do not normally exhibit stress,
random violence, and erratic behavioruntil they are confined.

Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behavior is intensified in todays cities. Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '
')
I think violence has something to do with consent. If a doctor amputates a gangrenous leg, is he being violent?

Is he violating something?

[KhanCEO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'W')hy do we fight each other? We are the SAME FUCKING SPECIES!!!!! What the hell is wrong with everyone?

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat the hell is wrong with every single person on this planet? Why do we fight each other? We are the SAME FUCKING SPECIES!!!!! What the hell is wrong with everyone?

[NEOPO]

A different view.

Yes we used this to get this far but at some point we cast off our think coat, lost our 2 inch claws, 3 inch canines and became human.

The body has made the transition but the mind lags behind.

"And the world will live as one"