Animals seem to accept the food chain and their place and role in Nature. They seek out places where there is what may be reasonable trade offs in order to survive and continue the species. The price of a good food supply may be predation or danger in some other form. Nature exercises its perogatives and animals accept and adjust.
Humanity on the other hand seems to refuse that we are nothing more than animals with a few different talents or abilities. We need space in order to have an air supply. We need space in order to gather or produce food. We need space so that our needs are not curtailed by population density. Should the population become too dense, some will either be killed off or driven away. What is so hard to understand?
Throughout history humans have settled in places that could support their life styles. The problem we seem to have is that we do not regulate population or birth rates until it is too late. We have child after child with little to no regard as to that child's inheritance. As an example, a couple builds a house on a plot that they found. The house has enough room to comfortably accomodate the couple and a child. As more children are born, space shrinks to accomodate the newcomers. There is now less space, less food, even less air in the current home. Their neighbors are finding the same circumstances are unacceptable after a while and are forced to decide if they should move to seek better accomodations or eliminate the competition for the resources available.
One option is killing off some of the children. The other option is moving to some new place. Those who decide that killing off their offspring is unacceptable find it more palatable to kill off their neighbor's off spring and or their neighbor. This is common practice in Nature for animals as well as humans. In Nature, animals deal with the circumstances and then go back to adjusting to their existence. Humans do the same but anyone who survives the purge carries hatred and a need for revenge for the victor in the struggle.
The other option to move to seek out another living space presents a different problem. Every good spot is already taken by other humans and their families. When all possible places to live are taken Mans' animal instincts take charge of their thinking. They have to confront those who live in the space and we call this either theft, murder or war. Nature has conditioned animals and people to be victims while others are conditioned to be predators.
There is one other alternative in the process. This I think of as the 'parasitic option'. Animals or people can infiltrate and consume previously occupied space and resources with the permission of the hosts. Herein is where Human Stupidity (or arraogance) comes into play. The host thinks that they have enough to share and accomodate the newcomers, but they never give a thought to the yet to arrive offspring of the newcomers.
The host is charitable, peaceful and trusting. As long as there is enough to accomodate the host, host's family and the newcomers and their offspring, all is well. When things become stressed there are the same two options. Some either have to be killed off or some have to move. A rational line of thought would be for the newcomers and their offspring to move on, but the newcomers are aware of the hardships involved in moving to seek out a new host. We have conflict, killing or war until an equillibrium is met. Sadly, the host and their family is most often consumed and overtaken by the parasitic newcomers.
After a while, the offspring of all families grow to adulthood and now need their own space in order to mate and start their own families. Commonly the oldest child inherits the space of the parents and the others must either move to conquer their own space or become parasites of the oldest child and parents. This creates an ironic twist. The parents are now the host and the oldest child becomes a domant parasite who will prosper at the demise of the parent host. Should the oldest child become impatient, their options are to move on or kill the parent host.
History and literature are filled with stories of children killing their parents for an inheritance or younger siblings killing older siblings in order to become the beneficiary of the parent host. There are even tales of parents killing off impatient children in order to attain a sense of security from the evil within.
So now we find ourselves generations along with all of these disinherited children wandering the earth to find and conquer (either through war or parasitic erosion) new space in order to live and prosper to bring forth new children.
The United States today is becoming the ultimate host. It is being invaded willingly and unwillingly by outsiders causing stress on the resources of the space available. I find this rather ironic since we were all parasites in the space of Native Americans. The US has the further problem of the cancer that is known as the government.
Parasites are always destructive to the host in order that they may survive. The irony is that they usually have no regard for the survival of the host on which they depend. When the host succumbs to the stresses caused by the parasites, the parasites either move on to a new host or die.
The Cancer that is attacking the host from within is totally illogical. It is thriving and propering at an advanced rate usually with no regard for the health and longevity of the host.
The world is full of parasitic countries that are thriving off of other host countries. There are only two alternatives for our future as a species and as a nation. We must either consume our hosts until there are no more hosts to consume only to be left to die, or we must accept the rules of Natural Selection and take action at the onset of stresses on our space.
Nature will allow us to choose an option, but as we see both options are at the mercy of Nature.
Rather humbling a prospect for a species that creates gods in their own images.
M.A.L.
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