They say the human race has been going through the process of evolution all this time. Changing and changing and changing. Into what? I mean really what’s the point of all this? And clearly evolution isn’t working out so good, you’ve got so many born these days with horrible genetic problems like I was. Seems like de-volution is going on with so many birth defects these days, seems like life must have been better in ancient Greece or something, seems like people were healthier back then at least.
If we’re in this collective human evolution project thing, it means we’re just pawns anyway. Just being sacrificed so the next generation can supposedly be “better” somehow.
But I think this world’s going to burn up, I really do. I think somethings going to happen just like with the dinosaurs. And it will be for the best. At least then this will all be over and we can rest.
So here’s the question, what are human beings evolving or de-volving into?
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sometimes things get crazy for a while, before the next standardized improvements become established. Meanwhile, there are loads of “mutants” out there, some of them procreating, so you just never know… some of those mutants might represent what humans will become in the future.
We are simply adapting to the conditions of our environment, as well as attempting to guide our own characteristics. It’s hard to say which is dominant, because it tends to vary quite a bit, and is often circumstantial.
Humanity as a whole, chooses which features to retain in the gene pool, and which to reject. Some aren’t readily discernible, and are overlooked.
With an increased number of iterations, and an increased amount of radioactivity and other such potentially mutagenic exposure, there is bound to be a visible increase in the amount of offspring which deviate from expected norms. Plus, with an increased ability to access information from all over the globe, we will be able to hear more reports of such things, which then increases the rate at which they are perceived… but not necessarily the rate at which they occur.
I think… humanity is attempting to cull the herd, during this time, and that eventually, it will stabilize with most offspring producing widely appealing traits… but due to how genetics work, there will still be anomalies. Unfortunately, society has never really developed a good solution to handle these anomalies. There’s a lot of improvisation in this area.
The optimist in me wants to believe that we’re progressing, that we as a species are taking steps forward instead of backwards. I believe that much of life has to do with perspective. A mindset, or an approach to life. If you consistently expect the worst, when the worst happens there’s no surprise. (You got what you were expecting). Life isn’t a constant barrage of bad events one after another, non stop for all of eternity. There are occasional sunny days in there periodically. (At least that’s been my experience).
If the entire human race all goes extinct just like the dinosaurs, fine. We’ll all be dead and no one can mourn since there’s no one around. Everyone’s dead. Awesome. Is that really a better alternative to the current paradigm?
I’m not preaching, by the way. I’m just not convinced that complete annihilation is the best possible outcome.
We’re definitely “evolving,” but probably not toward harmony with nature. We’ll become whatever we become, for better or worse, through the population’s own selections, whether those selections are based on “correct” criteria.
We become whatever we make ourselves. Some people don’t even bother to attempt to understand the process, while others have good ideas of how to guide it.
You could ask the same question to any species “what is it evolving into, what is the point of it evolving” and the answers would primarily oscillate from a similar reason. I personally don’t believe in a grand point to life or an objective that life has, life is just the byproduct of a suitable, inhabitable environment. Birth defects could be from a number of different reasons, but still the majority of people are born fully functioning or “normal”. Although birth defects may become more prominent, I doubt there will ever come a time when a significant portion of the population has some abnormality that vastly separates them from what someone would consider as “typical”.
If you think about life on an objective level, of course you’re going to make yourself feel insignificant. Many people do not dwell on the fact that their lives are just one tiny blip between two infinite phases of nonexistence. Perhaps it’s true, our lives are merely there to boost and improve the next generation, but who cares? Why should I care if that’s my ultimate role in life?