Only human?
Only human!
What does that mean?
We are supposed to be the most intelligent beings on this planet.
Why is it then, that when we make a mistake we chalk it up to being "only human"? Seems to be a little bit contradictory, doesn't it?
For a world that prides itself on the advanced intelligence of our species, we sure like to blame our short comings on that same fact also. We are smarter than the birds, the bees, the lions, the apes, and the caterpillars that crawl so helpless around on the ground. Do you think that when they fail to catch food for the clan they come up with the same excuse? "Well, I am just an animal!"
Come to think of it though, we do not hear too much about the mistakes animals make. I would imagine mistakes are made in the other half of the worlds existing beings, but probably just not as advertised as ours; since we do like to announce our short comings over loud speakers and in front of television cameras.
But then again, to err is human.
Intelligent? Maybe not as much as we thought.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Straight From The Mind To The Keyboard
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4 comments:
Great post, very thought provoking.
I think it is because our intelligence is our downfall -- we spend too much time analyzing and searching outside of ourselves. Very few of us live in the moment and appreciate just being alive.
so my greatest post so far is one that was off the cuff? I believe our greatest downfall is the faith we put in our species.
I never said it was your greatest? Am I supposed to comment on each one and say it is great?
We do excuse a lot of our bad behavior because many still adhere to the notion that we are apart from Nature and 'special'.
Religious teachings from certain segments that have accompanied Western Thought tell of us having free will and inform us that we are imperfect beings in desperate need of salvation and redemption.
My journey has taken me through that world and into a Naturalistic view. We humans have evolved into a complex organism that has yet to adjust and tweak our behavior to overcome many of the characteristics that allowed us to develop a big brain that we seldom seem to use properly.
Archaic instincts of a day to day survival, feast or famine, persist in creating conflict after conflict with our idealistic vision of being supernaturally set apart.
I find it intolerably frustrating that we have made such dismal progress in alleviating the disparity between the haves and the have nots. We should be far further ahead than we are. It is quite embarrassing.
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