So anyway. There's been some sort of virusey thingy going around on MSN messenger. Bloody annoying thing, it's only purpose is to replicate and spread. Which, actually fits "virus" very well.
The only other organism that has the same behaviour as a virus... is a human. Homo Sapiens. Most other animals learn to live and co-exist with other organisms. They form complex predator-prey relationships. deep symbiosis with even completely different species. They live in a balanced, though rather fragile equilibrium. The natural balance, as it is described by most documentaries and geography textbooks. All animals and plants are part of it. They have evolved to fill every ecological niché, whether they become predators or prey, supporters or scavengers. It's a perfect system.
Then, us. We break all the rules of nature. We do not live in harmony as other animals do. Instead of becoming integrated into the natural systems, we rise above it, using our intelligence and cunning to outwit all other animals. That, gave us power. With power, we carried out our own, unique imperative. Like a virus, we infected the Earth, used it's resources without care for the balance. When we finally sucked on resource dry, we moved on to the next. Spreading. Exactly like the viruses that kill us. Everywhere humans went, the Earth died. Every time the Earth died, humans moved on to rupture yet another delicate equilibrium.
And the result? What we have today, of course. Sure, we're all living in great comfort. I have a computer. You have a computer. I have air-conditioning, Hellgate: London, a television, great books... and so on. What we fail to realise is that the world isn't as pretty as it seems. Outside of the cities, we are still sucking oil from the earth, killing animals indiscriminately and as always, upsetting the balance.
But we're trying to stop that, aren't we? Environmentalists, principles of stewardship, etcetera. It's not enough. We have about as much hope of saving the world from utter and complete chaos as I have of not seeing anyone that pisses me off tomorrow. Simply put, zero.
Now, let's think... What is the very next resource that we're tapping into? No, it's not solar energy, nor is it antimatter annihilation. It's people. Each and every one of us are expendable resources, like the workers in an ant colony. Singapore is already doing it(go read your SS text), so it's not such a surprise, is it? My point is, we are now turning on ourselves. Once every other feasible source has been sucked dry, we have no choice but to use our own species. Call it advanced cannibalism. Believe it or not, this is going to lead right back to mass enslavement of the human race.
Hell, it already has. A job where you sit at an office and punch numbers all day is SLAVERY, I tell you. You may say "But I go to work voluntarily, I get paid." Think again. You have no choice. Without going to work "voluntarily", you will have no money. And you will die without money. Having a "job" is just an intermediate step between paying for labour with food. Even your boss is a slave. If he were to stop being your boss, he would be in the same situation as you.
But in the future, the incentive won't be money. People may develop a drug that is so addictive, that you must have it. Absolutely, must, have, drug type thing. Feed it into the water supply, and the whole world is addicted. So, now the authorities can pay people in food, plus the drug. Everyone will just keep working, working, working, for that drug. Enslavement of the human race, by the human race.
There is only one ticket to the free world as of now, and that is the lottery ticket. Because the only thing holding us back is money, the key to survival. But I won't go into that because I seem to have diverted from human behaviour to reinstating slavery. Just take it as that our lives are governed by a set of rules that cannot be ignored unless by extreme measures. And the best thing you can do about it is pretend that you've never read this.
I think I really need some of those >.<
-Joe