What do you think?
Rate this book
YEAR 3157: THE FUTURE OF THE SPECIES
QUESTIONS THE AUTHOR POSES TO THE READERS
Dear readers, do you think a mouse would build a mousetrap? I think so, but only under certain conditions. Here’s what I think:
Albert Einstein said: “Mankind has invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap”. One mouse, certainly not; but let’s assume the case that mice had the luck (or misfortune) to evolve as had the first hominids some millions of years ago. In our case, modern Homo Sapiens resulted from about the last thirty-five thousand years of our long evolution.
Suppose mice, in a few million years, found the right conditions to develop their primitive brains and assume the upright position (useful to free their upper limbs). Add to that hands with opposable thumbs, and they would acquire the ability to build tools and artifacts. They could well become as intelligent and conscious as us.
They would develop thought, creativity, introspection and, very importantly, a complex language that would allow them to communicate within an increasingly complex social structure. With such advanced faculties, in some thousands of years they could establish their own culture, various religions and probably science thought and advanced technology.
Dear readers, at this point do you still think that a mouse would not build a mousetrap? Do you not see, rather, that an evolved mouse would be more than capable of declaring war on another mouse! If what distinguishes us from animals is higher awareness and intelligence, a mouse that acquired those traits could come to construct a trap for mice and worse things, if it could not maintain the natural harmony between instinct and reason, leaving itself in a perverted state.
Just to give an example, to survive, the lioness, to survive, kills a single gazelle to feed herself. Mankind, on the other hand, for some reason tends to crave as many goods as possible, to the detriment of its own kind. It seems that to mankind, is not enough to simply survive!
We are capable of killing a thousand or ten thousand gazelles, even leaving them to rot, starving millions of our fellow men, probably because of deviant instincts of hyper-survival or competition.
For some reason, the survival instinct of mankind has turned into an absurd will to dominate that drives him into a wild and unbridled race to excessive acquisition and longer-term self-destruction.
The most serious thing, dear readers, is that we perpetrate all of this not only to the detriment of ourselves and those like us, but also to the detriment of the animals and plants, and of our wonderful planet.
Unfortunately, we seem not to understand that each of our disharmonic acts has repercussions on the whole community. We cannot understand that including and collaborating are more useful than warring. Perhaps because we have not yet begun an inner evolution that allows us to wisely manage the enormous scientific progress reached so far.
In conclusion, dear readers, to the unlikely question posed above we could answer that mice would not construct mousetraps only if their scientific-technological evolution were always to have the support an inner-spiritual evolution as well.
Dear readers, do you think a mouse would build a mousetrap? I think so, but only under certain conditions. Here’s what I think:
Albert Einstein said: “Mankind has invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap”. One mouse, certainly not; but let’s assume the case that mice had the luck (or misfortune) to evolve as had the first hominids some millions of years ago. In our case, modern Homo Sapiens resulted from about the last thirty-five thousand years of our long evolution.
Suppose mice, in a few million years, found the right conditions to develop their primitive brains and assume the upright position (useful to free their upper limbs). Add to that hands with opposable thumbs, and they would acquire the ability to build tools and artifacts. They could well become as intelligent and conscious as us.
They would develop thought, creativity, introspection and, very importantly, a complex language that would allow them to communicate within an increasingly complex social structure. With such advanced faculties, in some thousands of years they could establish their own culture, various religions and probably science thought and advanced technology.
Dear readers, at this point do you still think that a mouse would not build a mousetrap? Do you not see, rather, that an evolved mouse would be more than capable of declaring war on another mouse! If what distinguishes us from animals is higher awareness and intelligence, a mouse that acquired those traits could come to construct a trap for mice and worse things, if it could not maintain the natural harmony between instinct and reason, leaving itself in a perverted state.
Just to give an example, to survive, the lioness, to survive, kills a single gazelle to feed herself. Mankind, on the other hand, for some reason tends to crave as many goods as possible, to the detriment of its own kind. It seems that to mankind, is not enough to simply survive!
We are capable of killing a thousand or ten thousand gazelles, even leaving them to rot, starving millions of our fellow men, probably because of deviant instincts of hyper-survival or competition.
For some reason, the survival instinct of mankind has turned into an absurd will to dominate that drives him into a wild and unbridled race to excessive acquisition and longer-term self-destruction.
The most serious thing, dear readers, is that we perpetrate all of this not only to the detriment of ourselves and those like us, but also to the detriment of the animals and plants, and of our wonderful planet.
Unfortunately, we seem not to understand that each of our disharmonic acts has repercussions on the whole community. We cannot understand that including and collaborating are more useful than warring. Perhaps because we have not yet begun an inner evolution that allows us to wisely manage the enormous scientific progress reached so far.
In conclusion, dear readers, to the unlikely question posed above we could answer that mice would not construct mousetraps only if their scientific-technological evolution were always to have the support an inner-spiritual evolution as well.
131 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 10, 2018
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.