The Enigma of Human Nature: A History of Self-Inflicted Chaos and Complexity
Introduction
Human is such a complex and mysterious creature that no one can understand his nature enigma. Human's enigmatic intentions, planning, ideas, purposes, motives, and objectives are so surprising that no one can imagine that what he or she will do the next. If we look back and go through the past history of human, we find that human himself has been destroying and creating unlimited problems, misery, hatred, chaos, oppression, killing, destruction of nature, inappropriate distribution of resources, discrimination, double standards, deception, humiliation, as well as guilt.
Background
If you compare human nature with that of other species found on the planet earth particularly wild animals, you will find a huge difference. Animals of the same species like elephants, zebras, wild beasts, deer, and giraffe mostly live together, eat together, share their food and shelter. They even mourn together on the death of their species. Similarly, they share territory and never occupy their territories. Similarly, domestic animals including buffaloes, cows, goats, sheep, and hen live peacefully as a community including sharing their food and space.
On the other hand, when we observe different species of birds, we experience the same unity, peace, harmony, and support like we do experience in animals. Birds fly together in flocks in search of food, share their food, and live peacefully.
They never occupy eath-other's nests illegally neither fight and kill eachother. In order to survive and save themselves from extreme weather conditions, birds of the same species even migrate together in flocks and after spending some time, they come back together to their actual place of living when the weather becomes normal.
While observing marine life, we see that thousands of different species of fish live and swim together. Fish of the same species shoal together and in some cases defend jointly against their enemies. Similarly, frogs, turtles and crocodiles live in a long family. You might have seen penguins living on Antarctic coasts and sub-Antarctic islands in Newzealand. They also live jointly in huge numbers, share space, and prey together.
What I am trying to say is that animals, birds, and marine life exhibit remarkable unity and harmony within their respective species. This unity contrasts sharply with human behaviour, highlighting the peaceful and cooperative nature of other species.
Enigma of Human Nature
By nature, human is greedy, impatient, deceiver, liar, selfish, ignorant, proud, weak, careless, heedless, self-centered and inappreciative. Being a species, human divided himself and created classes on the basis of wealth and riches, caste and creed, ethnicity, religion, region, culture, language, identity, social norms, as well as customs and traditions.
History witnesses that human created boundaries and barriers on the basis of nationality and thus divided himself into different groups, regions, countries, and even continents. With the passage of time human advanced and discovered scientific knowledge. But this advancement was not to help eachother rather take advantage over the others.
However, things didn't stop here. Human started to invade his fellow beings including killing them, oppressing, and plundering their resources. Similarly, he discovered economic laws for slavery including snatching food, shelter, and right to living peacefully. The greed of power injected hatred, monopoly, discrimination, restlessness into human society. As a result, human started destroying nature including planet earth on which he is living thousands of years ago.
This destruction still continues even after severe consequences in terms of earthquakes, heavy rains, droughts, pollution, hunger, dehydration, malnutrition, and climate change issues. Today millions of people are living homeless and miserable life. Similarly, they are striving hard to have access to food, water, and other basic necessities of life.
Here I want to make my point that the path humanity has taken highlights a dire need for reflection and change to address these self-inflicted crises. Additionally, we need to think that why human is himself oppressor and oppressed? Why human himself is the victim of human injustice and resist against himself including sacrificing his life?
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