Gene Machines

HUMAN NATURE

If a human has done it, it’s a part of human nature!   We’re protean, and can basically become almost anything.  Anybody.  The full range, the full spectrum, is possible.   The best person in history and the worst could have been the same person.  Math can kind of calculate our behavior.    Sociobiology and evolutionary genetics can predict likelihoods of stuff (I vaguely remember from college anthropology).  We’re gene machines.  

Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology.. different perspectives on being human.   We’re descended from hominids in Africa, and have invented both libraries and nuclear bombs.     Our experience ranges from true love to flame-throwers.  There are lovely cities like St. Helena and hellscapes like plastic-covered beaches.   War, from us and them divisions and aggravations, and peace, from friendship and philosophy (like religions or comity of nations), are entirely the choice of the leaders of society.  In democracies, everyone has a say.  Everyone that votes, anyway.  Human Nature can get really ugly.  We’re mean to each other all the time.

Resentments and malice and hatred and aggression can quickly spiral into (sometimes large scale) conflict.  Everyone needs to fight for peace.   Ha.

The Satanists vs.  The Buddhists

The sick savage slaughter by satanists against a pacifist kind compassionate equanimous society of buddhist bhikkus is actually possible.  A bunch of self-immolating monks would make the devil cackle with delight.  It’s a mad mad world. 

Humankind should be both, but is often neither.  We’re carnivores, and responsible for death and suffering on a vast scale.  We’re animals, but think we can waste the earth because we’re destined for Heaven.  We’re lovers, but we are twisted into hate by the media.  We want happiness, but think we have to be slaves to the money til we die, for it.  We want sex and intimacy and love, but end up with prostitution and sexual slavery and rape and disease.