Humanity's Ego

To many moral systems are obsessed with the morality of humankind...for humankind's sake. Essentially we consider our species sacred and envision some coming age of transcendent wisdom and unity that will bring world peace. 

I think most humans are completely missing the point of finding value in others. Our selfishness is blind to most anything that doesn't benefit other humans, whether those humans are our friends and family, our local community, our nation state, or even more inclusively all homo sapiens. 

Even the most kind and thoughtful people refuse to throw a wider ethical net to capture respect and compassion for all living beings. Most of the eight billion humans on Earth fund in some way the captivity, abuse and slaughter of hundreds of billions of thinking feeling creatires annually. In addition, they support the slaughter of trillions of conscious beings that live in our planet's wild land and ocean spaces. 

And they give it hardly a second thought. 

Evolutionary motivations continue to override our attempts as a species to live with compassion on our shared planet. Instead, through capitalism and spiritual pretense most of us act as if humanity is the only thing that is sacred. Our technologies have made us too successful, and rather than self regulate our numbers and our consumption, we become fascinated with faith-based and rationalized "solutions" that fail to take a truly holistic approach toward a sustainable world.

Sure, we need to connect better with each other as individuals and communities, but not just for our own benefit. We need to adjust our aggregate behavior so that the Earth's synergistic ecosystems remain healthy. Abolishing animal husbandry and wild animal harvesting alongside reducing human population in the decades to come is the real salvation our dpecies can strive for. 

Sadly, humanity's ego needs a wake up call that can probably only be achieved by calamity. The current capitalistic, pyramid scheme (human overpopulation and overconsumption) world we live in needs a hard kick to the balls.

Natural law seems finally to be providing that hard kick in the form of instabilities including climate change, zoonotic disease spread and global resource and cultural unrest.

Hopefully, the societal implosion isn't so catastrophic that we don't recover. Science, technology, and philosophy can lead us forward if we let go of the egotistical brain-washing that blind evolutionary and cultural forces have instilled.

We must use the tools of humanity to sustain a balance with the whole of Earth, its ecosystems and our fellow Earthling species.

Om.