Homo Insciens, Part 6: The Knells of Suicide

Is our species suicidal? Are we succombing to an inborn drive to usher ourselves out of the biosphere, now that we've almost used up the resources needed for our well-being? Are we - despite our superior intellect and our capacity of foresight - unable to withstand Mother Nature's call to self-destruct now that we've failed to adapt to her laws of sustainability? Is our subconscious obeying secret orders from a primeval, DNA-based safety device in making us do the exact opposite of what might ensure our collective survival? Or why does the majority of human beings ignore the warning signals and keep on doing business as usual? Why do we still allow our food to be produced as cheaply as possible, our meat consumption to soar, our oceans to be fished empty, our forests to be destroyed, our soil to be poisoned? Why do we let multinational corporations and backward governments do as they please, developing and selling weaponry and manipulating genes without restraint? Why do we accept to be lulled by irresponsible, irreverent, lustful media? Have we become 'comfortably numb'? Is our consciousness no longer receptive to positive visions and hopeful messages? Are we unable to pursue worth while goals beyond material inflation at the cost of everything else?

Is our dinosaur brain taking over?

picture: Daroy Lin