Humanity.
It is said to be that quality in the human race that gives humans the capacity to love, be compassionate, be charitable, be kind and giving, and extend unconditional support to each and every human being on Earth.
But what man has in reality is the ability to use the written word, regardless of the language, to express what they would like humanity to be, all the while knowing that humanity does not get better, only worse as time relentlessly marches toward the ultimate calamity.
This is why man creates a make-believe humanity through great pieces of literature and poems and religions just to have the ability to cope with real humanity on a daily basis.
Take, for example, a CNN report today about parents in a rural area in India who buried their four-day old baby girl alive in an isolated grave because they wanted a son. Parents in India prefer sons over daughters so many times they bury unwanted baby girls alive in unmarked graves. Fortunately, the cries of this baby girl, who had been in the grave for roughly six hours, were heard by passing villagers who rescued her. Weighing just 3.3 pounds, she is now fighting for life in the ICU of an area hospital.
Then there is the report several days ago about the Sussex County, New Jersey man who terrorized his neighbors because they would not let him have sex with their farm animals, most preferably their horses and cows. A British news report in 2017 referred to these kinds of people as “zoophiles.”
And then there is today’s report about the three assisted living facility workers who forced elderly patients with dementia to fight each other as part of their “Dementia Fight Club.” Investigators discovered one filmed staged fight between two elderly females, a 70-year-old and a 73-year-old, who were encouraged to hurt each other by the charged trio. In another filmed fight, an elderly woman being forced to fight is heard begging, “Let go, help me, help me, let go.”
Self-described humanitarians will rush to the defense of humanity, saying these are aberrations in human behavior.
Really?
Just watch the local and national news each day which features one report after another of man’s inhumanity to man through wars, atrocities, poverty, starvation, mass human displacement, crimes, schemes, frauds, and that is just touching the surface of the inhumanity barrel.
It is both ironical and paradoxical that prior to national news reports about “Inspiring America” or “America Strong” we must watch an SPCA commercial showing terribly abused, beaten, starved, neglected and abandoned animals by human beings.
Humans are destroying each other at a record pace while they engage in unchecked activities deliberately designed to destroy all life itself on this Earth.
But I have faith in the Earth. Nature will eventually intervene with a plague or some catastrophic war that will virtually wipe out all of humanity.
And perhaps, just perhaps, peace and goodness—the kind the Earth knew before humans polluted it with their “humanity”—may return to the natural existence of life.