terça-feira, 22 de março de 2011

Mankind

What will we turn into?


I believe Paradise existed once but now we remember it as in a Hyperouranos world. Paradise vanished when the Humankind rose.

Science, literature, arts and ways of thinking have been developed over the time times and all this development has changed us into what we are today. On account of all these changes, we are believed to be the most intelligent beings on earth.
But are we REALLY the most intelligent beings on the Earth’s surface?
If we look back at our past, we notice that the world has changed from the very first moment we started to breathe.
At the beginning, when we lived on hunting, fishing, farming and livestock in little communities, which helped each other , we were within the balance of nature, I mean, we took from the land just what we needed to survive but there was no human exploitation. At that time medicines hadn’t been invented and only some herbs were used to cure wounds and diseases. Thus, only the stronger survived and the weaker, the sick and the old were left behind.
With the development of science and medicine, we started living longer and the natural balance of the earth was shaken. Then, our society became a consumer society anxious to explore and wear out all natural resources bringing about serious damages.
Beyond welfare, science intervened in other branches such as Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Mechanics, leading Man to the invention of loads of gadgets we can’t do without these days. We are blind with pride, vanity and greed and we are completely dependent on our awesome inventions. But, little by little, we are destroying ourselves as well as everything around us.
In my opinion, this great intelligence of ours has been drawing us into stupidity and we can no longer put an end to it.
Where is this going to lead us?
It is going to lead us to our end and who knows to the beginning of a new Paradise.
A text by Joana Hrotkó