Talk 8: Wise man!

Talk 8: Wise man!

2 October 2020 Off By Naginder Sehmi

Are homo sapiens wise?

I have been using the term homo sapiens ignorantly forgetting that it means wisemen.  How can I be wise when I carry highly noxious genes of ego, greed, and arrogance? As you know, these genes cause the nasty I-ness disease.

Who rules the Earth?

I comfort myself by claiming that other species are also infected with I-ness – it is nature. I refuse to see the disproportionately swelling hulk of my I-ness and the incredible speed at which my fellow BHG multiply. Other living beings adapt to nature. Depending on the conditions, they flourish or perish without wastefully fighting nature. We the human beings have learnt to do the opposite. Instead of adapting to nature, we fortify ourselves and make nature to adapt to us.

A long time ago, George Bernard Shaw, and many others since then, have pointed out this trend. Now, we the BHG rule the Earth.

Keeping control over I-ness gene

Earth-Doctors have not been able to eliminate the nasty I-ness gene lodged in the human genome. They use the latest artificial intelligence and have excess to help from molecular biologists, psychologists, neurologists, microbiologists, sociologists, botanists, and ecologists. But every time they approach the I-ness gene, the BHG mutates and acquires even more powerful malignant traits. I-ness is so dear to BHG that Earth Doctors dare not eliminate it?

Do I merit to self-proclaim as Homo Sapiens, wise, discerning, sensible, and judicious? Do you?  Puffing up my chest, head raised to view my vast kingdom on Earth and beyond and watch my living and non-living subjects, you cannot imagine how proud I feel talking to you.

Oh my, what a glorious earth-shattering day! My swollen camouflaged I-ness makes me superbly loving, generous, benevolent, inquisitive, questioning, and much more. Since commencement, this masquerade has served me well to become all-dominant. Empowering myself never stops. What a wonderful feeling!

Consume now and burn later!

Have we forgotten, or perhaps we do not care, that 40,000 year ago our ancestors behaved exactly like us? Anthropologists tell us that some half a million years ago they started separating from other animals; even from other humanoids. They started to utter a language to communicate. Amazing, only we could ask questions!

Unknowingly we started myopic discounting. Have pleasure at once, and do not care if there would be less or none in the future. Consume now and get fat, not caring that we would starve and burn later. The basic attributes fear, anger, love, hatred, jealousy, and reasoning have remained unchanged. Males of our species tended to kill each other in order to acquire more wives to produce more children and stay in power to dominate all else. Amassing personal belongings by any means has become our intense yearning.

Rise of Earth’s fever

Some experts say that since those times we have become a little less violent. The truth is, our violent unwholesome impulses are as strong as ever, if not more. The only difference is that we have found other ingenious ways of exercising them. For example, to feed our greed we have increased our consumption astronomically. We know it that this has triggered the sudden rise my Earth’s fever, shattering the entire ecosystem and killing many of our own kind and much more of other living beings.