The Invincibles

I have often thought of what binds all human-beings who walk this planet. There are many ways of looking at it, but the one aspect that I have seen with the greatest prevalence is the almost universal vanity in the human species. The belief that I am right, I am always right, I know everything, that I am better than the rest. There is not a human-being I have met, not one, foremost among them myself, who has not or at some level does not still have such a view of oneself. It is amazing the kind of vain and make-believe worlds we create for ourselves. And all we do is delude and fool ourselves. To what end? What do we achieve? Well, I think we achieve a lot, we achieve a sense of security, we insulate our lives from who we really are, and thats very important for many. If we have succeded in deluding ourselves, its fairly easy to delude anybody else. Now I shall digress for a bit.

I have heard some of the myths of super-humans even gods walking this planet, but at some level fantastic as the stories sound, could it be true that they did. Why is it, that god has to be brought into the mix, everytime man-kind can't manage its own house. And why can't we manage our own house. I am not disputing the story that gods walked this planet, frankly it sounds quite fantastic, one would always want to believe fantastic stories, they give a larger than life perspective on reality. Anything else, would seem dour and boring. At some level, that might be because of the inherent escapism in humans. People would much rather cull an elaborate story about what they wished or fantasized had happened as opposed to deal with what really did. But in doing so, I fear that man-kind in general has veered off the path of, action and consequence. When we are the ones, cutting trees and pillaging the planet, and when we face greater droughts, floods and natural catastrophies as a result of disturbing the delicate ecological balance, why blame it on the wrath of gods, why not blame it on the stupidity of humans. Could it be because we all walk with such bloated egos, that we'd be willing to blame everything and everybody on this planet for what happens to us (as a result of our own actions By the way), besides ourselves. I have a feeling that the history of human-species on this planet has been one of 'lost oppurtunity'. We have had numerous oppurtunities to redeem ourselves, but every single time one gets the feeling we have looked to extend our domination over other objects outside of us, we have looked to dominate nature, by incessantly destroying it, we have looked to dominate other human-beings through less subtle techniques like slavery, colonization, conquest, racism etc.. or more subtle techniques like mind control etc... At some level, our history, sadly most of it lost, in all but myth and legend, in my opinion, is a depressing chronicle of an agressive, war-mongering species who want to subjugate each other's will powers and pillage the planet. And though its depressing, its never been more important for that history to be uncovered. Just because its depressing doesn't mean, we shouldn't know it, we are on a collision course with our own nature and with mother earth. And it would seem an appropriate moment to uncover the "great" civilizations of the past, many of whom (the 'escapist' in me wouldn't like to think all), may have met a fate which they embarked on in ignorance and a false belief of 'invincibility' just like we have. It may be essential for us to know all this, so that maybe just maybe makind as a whole can undergo a paradigm shift in terms of our view of each other and most profoundly of ourselves. That ofcourse, predicates itself on a rather flimsy assumption, that we will learn from our own mistakes of the past and those mistakes will translate into a collecting wisdom, resulting in a huge course correction. Probably Only time will tell.