Man Is Destroying Itself

Nothing is constant. Only change is constant.

If there’s something that I remember from my school days, it’s this saying. I read it somewhere when I was in middle school. It has since stuck with me and I’ve been chewing on it for more than a decade now.

Upon reflection, I’ve come to the realization that evolution is one of the fundamental things that underlies almost everything from living to nonliving, from physical to metaphysical.

Everything moves forward in the spatiotemporal arena.

There’s nothing that ever stops moving forward in space across time. Our minds grow the same way our bodies do. With the multiplicity principle being followed in our cells, the width and depth of our understanding grow with the same multiplicity and exponential principles.

The purpose of Change is Growth

There would be no conscious being that wouldn’t change for good.

Evolution is the consequence of growth.

From the dawn of genesis, everything has been changing, growing, evolving, and getting nearer to being better with each second being passed.

Our planet moved on from being a giant fireball to being a moderately weathered one. Nature destroyed dinosaurs so that Earth becomes capable of living.

Then man came along living in caves and not knowing how to communicate. With its basic needs came agriculture. Agriculture converged humanity and reduced distances. People started to move toward areas where land was fertile and started living in closed neighborhoods. This helped make tribes.

But living in a closed vicinity caused conflicts on personal possessions and quarrels on ideas and beliefs. This brutality and nastiness triggered the idea of giving up control and power to a superior authority in return for security. Hence, states came into being.

To move the wheel of time smoothly, man has come a long way, but there’s something that irritates me about this whole evolution process.

Man is spirally moving into ENTROPY

Man is never satisfied. It always tries to do better than the last time.

Man has always moved and will always be moving, be it physical or metaphysical. It has seen no leash since the dawn of life.

This notion of moving forward in all the dimensions of life across space and time has now come to a halt because of achieving a major portion of the void that was missing. There has remained very little minority of things that need to be achieved with human effort.

As man is comfortable with growth, now that that growth has reached a plateau, man is feeling empty more than ever. It has lost the meaning of what it does.

As Tolstoy wrote in his confession that life is a joke that has been played on us, but no one is either thinking about it or acting against this joke by putting an end to their lives.

This emptiness could also be sensed by coming into contact with modern literature and art and every creation of man that came out in the world because of emotions. Every second painting out there in the wild is about the existential vacuum that the artist is experiencing. Every other written piece is about the identity crisis that the writer is facing in this age of tech and globalization.

It is evident from common sense that man has destroyed itself by its own tools and ideas.

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