The Descent of Man

It would seem that the continual warring among the nations of this world is the ultimate testament to man's inherent barbaric nature. Or is war just nature's mechanism to play out Darwin's idea of survival of the fittest?

Wars are zero-sum, winner takes all, games. It seems nowadays we know who the winners are, all the time - the anglo-saxon race, or axis, or allies; call them what you will, it doesn't matter.

From now on wars are like the gentle rain, or soft falling snow, or the wind that blows. There is no more emotive meaning to wars because there is just too much meaning that our hearts cannot compute it all. The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the most eventful offering to the altar of progress of the human race. There is only one human race that matters now - the anglo-saxon race.

In his The Descent of Man, Darwin states, " mankind's social instincts are primary and individual instincts are secondary", a prescient notion, now devoid of meaning. It is meaning in itself. The surreal explanation of why the moth is drawn to the flame; why there will always be empty souls willing to blow themselves up. Life has no more meaning. One has to die to taste that fading sense of humanity.