These days, our knowledge has
progressed to such an extent that the delusions and superstitions of the past,
which we have inherited in the form of belief, religion, tradition, cult, and
creed, are no longer acceptable in our thoughts. Of course, these beliefs are
tools for the rulers to subjugate their people much easier. It is for this
reason that almost all the rulers believe in God, and they enforce this belief
to the people under their rule by the power of police and military.
If we look at the books and
articles that were published a century ago, we can clearly see the footprints
of religions in those writings. Even those who introduce themselves as
progressives, intellectuals, scientists, or experts in specialized and technological
matters in their writings, glorify religions, and if not a certain religion, they
would acknowledge their belief in God, which of course it is either due to
their lack of knowledge or their fear. Although there are always exceptions in
this case; from Democritus to Einstein. One of them is the greatest scientist
of the late 20th and early 21st century, Stephen Hawking. He stated that those
who believed in science knew that there were certain rules that were always
followed in every case. Hawking recounted the opinions of others about the
reason for the existence of these laws. For example, he stated that some
believed that such laws were God's work, but the theory was in fact a
definition of God instead of the proof of God. He also stated that each of us was
free to believe in what we wanted, but it was safer for us to believe that He did
not exist. In his 2002 book “The Theory of Everything- The Origin and Fate of
the Universe”, Stephen Hawking declared that no one created the universe, and
no one directed our destiny. He concluded that probably heaven and life after
death never existed.
Some of the earlier mammals,
those who survived dinosaurs, became our ancestors and we evolved from those
who were able to also survive the Armageddon of millions of years ago.
According to biologists, dinosaurs ruled the earth for the time much longer than
the duration of the time humans have existed. Dinosaurs became rulers of the
earth due to their physical strength. What made us superior to all other
animals was our unique intelligence, which overshadowed other species. We may
be weaker than many animals, as we have given up much of our strength and
sensory abilities for superior intelligence. Our knowledge allows us to provide
new technology, and build bombs and telescopes. This will constantly increase
our strength till we begin using those bombs on each other.
We should be proud that we have
been able to conquer the earth and all in it. What is holding us back now is no
longer the superiority of other beings, but ourselves! Many animals do not have
our good qualities, including cooperation, love, help, friendship,
understanding, mercy, charity, and many other qualities. On the other hand, many
of them lack the malicious qualities of humans, such as anger, superiority,
laziness, theft, jealousy, terror, murder, and many others. Of course, it must
be acknowledged that the collection of these good and bad qualities has helped
us to become who we are now, the best of living entities. But the behavior of
us humans with each other through war, murder, massacre, slaughter, and destruction
can bring us down from where we are standing now, and cause the destruction of
ourselves and our world.
Perhaps the lowest human trait is
superiority. However, what has created our dominance and ascendancy is this
sense of supremacy. Although the American government after the Second World War
became a global power, and before that some European governments, and even
before that some Asian governments including Iran, achieved such position, but
their rise to such position transpired through bringing other governments down.
Improper use of the national resources of weaker countries, enslavement of
other races by force of arms and racial humiliation, all cause inequality
between people. As a result, a few get rich at the expense of, or against the
poverty of a nation. All such behavior stems from this sense of human
superiority. This type of behavior generally manifests itself with racism,
either openly like Nazism, apartheid, and Zionism, or not so openly as it is
now prevalent in the West.
Animals also fight with their own
species, but the ferocity of such behavior cannot be compared to that of
humans, in terms of scope, duration and number. Some animals fight over prey.
Of course, many animals not only share the prey with each other, but also attack
the prey in a group and with each other's participation. Some animals whom we
call herbivorous generally eat plants in groups, and they are usually not in
favor of violence. War with the same species, in general, is prevalent among
groups of carnivorous animals. Another difference that exists in the reason and
philosophy of war and conflict between humans and animals is that animal combat
is hand-to-hand, and usually does not result in the killing of one of the
combatants, because the vanquished generally leaves the scene of battle upon recognizing
the dominant force. In most cases, the opposite fighter does not chase the defeated,
with the intention of killing him or her. But humans do not stop fighting until
the enemy is destroyed. For this reason, the war of humans continues with
careful planning and until the enemy's surrender.
The great majority of all living
beings, humans and animals and some plants, are divided into two genders, male
and female. It is clear that the reproduction of organisms takes place by and
because of the fusion of these two genders. As it was already mentioned earlier,
the progress and excellence of humans compared to other creatures was due to
the size of the brain and intellectual quality. But in the beginning, what
confirmed superiority was physical strength. We noted that mammals were able to
assert their existence when a force stronger than them, the dinosaurs, vanished
from the scene. Among the humans, the one who was physically stronger, the
male, was in a higher position. In most human societies it has been observed
that women have always been inferior to men, due to their smaller size.
Although children are born with the participation of a man and a woman, and the
one who nurtures a child inside her body for more than nine months, and with
excruciating pain gives birth to the child, is a woman, but generally and in
most societies, the father of the family plays a higher role in raising the
child. In most cultures, a child takes the family name from the father (although
children come out of the mother's womb) and in most cultures the father decides
about a child’s future, while it is the mother who breastfeeds and raises the
child. Of course, this tradition of patriarchy is merely in human societies,
and in the vast majority of animals it is the mother who raises the child and
brings it to maturity. Men are generally physically stronger than women, and it
can be concluded that the historical reason for men to support the family is
their physical strength.
We humans do not cooperate with
nature, but our goal is to use it as much as possible, and as a result, abuse
and trample nature. As it was mentioned earlier, although nature has gone
through many periods, from the ice age of 2.5 million years ago, to global
warming which is increasing every year, humans have survived until now. Through
human evolution, what technology has brought to us are countless innovations
that have made life easier, as technology has reduced the hard and physical work
of humans. But this same technology has also brought new weapons, especially nuclear
kinds. Such military advances, along with exploitation of nature, may lead to
the loss of future generations, and as a result, make humanity extinct.
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