Victim of Mankind

vic·tim: a person or animal sacrificed or regarded as sacrificed

As we move further into the 21st Century, we as a human species have many misnomers about how the world and society within that world should work. We have all types of theories about where we have originated from, how we have evolved, and even many of us have had thoughts about where we are headed (some utopian, some apocalyptical).

In our American society, we argue over the varying freedoms we are allotted and to what extent they should be enacted. We bicker over which set of morals, beliefs and standards should be used to govern the people and who should be dictating them to us. Just as in America, nations all over the world face the same types of decisions and choices. Collectively, we create quite a chaotic place to live without even recognizing the repercussions of our choices.

Our collective efforts for “progress” have repercussions in the real world. We are destroying the environment all over the globe. We have managed to alter weather and natural functioning systems in our eco-system which will have massive consequences. Species are becoming extinct at alarming rates. Water supplies are being poisoned with chemicals and similar pollutants. Our air quality is tarnished as a result of industrialization. All of these ongoing problems will not only be issues for future generations, they will likely alter the world to the point we can not even fathom.

Some of these problems can be reversed or their courses altered, but overall, it is a bleak outlook for humanity. Wars are being waged for false securities and prizes. Weapons are becoming more grave and catastrophic. How long before the next nuclear war? The stakes of such occurrences are being raised everyday by the governments around the world (ours helping lead the way).

Most of our society makes its most basic decisions on planning for the future (family and children), yet when it comes to these most vital of problems, it is forgotten. Economic debt is one thing future generations can manage to live with or pay off, there’s no way to rebuild the environment we have destroyed and undo the lastly damage we are creating.

Albeit, some more guilty than others, we are all contributing to these lasting and unchanging problems. Whether it is the average citizen merely paying his/her taxes which build bombs that devastate another country or an oil company responsible for a spill in a vast ocean. We are all guilty at some level because we enable it to occur and no one is an innocent victim in this exchange.

We have all the responsibilities and power to make the necessary changes, yet sit blindly and hope those we have put in charge will do it for us. Also, the more advanced our technologies become, our society become more dependent and dumbed-down. Greed, productivity and commercialism all have their price.

The evolution of mankind is being reversed. Once mankind was self-sufficient in a natural system; we have become a species all too reliant on those around us and our system for carrying out our survival “compels us to go on destroying the world in order to live in it”.

By the time mankind discovers it needs saving from a world it has ravaged and forsaken; will those left even be worth saving? The answer is very doubtful. Obviously, this is a very grim reality most do not care to see or think about – whether it is a generation away, or several, the end result will remain the same. Man, to date, the highest marvel of evolution, will extinct itself because it failed to continue what got it that far, evolve. Too busily wrapped up in its own misgivings and conundrums, while discarding the environment and eco-system which it is a part of – the human species will become a victim of itself. The dissent has been underway. Devolution is ongoing unless we change our feeble ways.

Mankind is sacrificing itself for its own progress.





A great book to read regarding some of this premise is Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.