Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Raine's Guide on how to Emulate a Human

This is a short primer guide on how to emulate human behaviour, if you ever find yourself wondering, or perhaps learning about the culture of Homo Sapiens.

Behavioural Development:

Maturity is rare in humankind. Often, maturity is mimic'd by those seeking to improve their social or business standing. Make no mistake, any attempt to behave beyond basis is usually so transparent that any critical eye can seperate the pretenders from the real specimens (who are so rare and elusive that many call them myth).

Society is a catchall used by those who want to shift blame from their own concious choices to the collective choices of the whole. Many don't feel guilty of their actions because "everyone is doing it," and thus, all Homo Sapiens are guilty of mob mentality at some point in their lives. Such thinking can even apply to atrocities as mass murder.

Blame is something that is given to everyone else, but never to the real perpetrator. The self is never guilty. Someone else is always to blame. Homo Sapiens has an obsession bordering on fetish in blaming everything on someone else. Be warned that being in a position of power makes you liable to be blamed for the actions of the constituency.

Aggression and Anger are the default reactions to unfavorable conditions. The average human male will immediately resort to loud threats and violence when provoked, while the average human female will also resort to loud violent threats and inane clandestine activity in the presence of adversity. Reasonable thought is non-existent during times of duress, expect only base behaviour. Despite the commonality of such beliefs as forgiveness and understanding, the average human will quickly seek revenge and reparations far exceeding the initial act.

Hypocracy is the basis for which reasoning is deducted in the average human being. Being able to control others through rules, which the self ultimately does not have to comply with, is the basis for power and control, starting in the parent-child relationship, and working its way up the power ladder to the point of international relationships. Fairness and equal Justice are illusory terms put forward by those seeking the power to influence our perceptions of said concepts.

Action and Response:

The Initial Response to danger or stimuli will always be the least logical and least effective approach. Mankind has had the exceptional luck of being immune to the process of natural selection, or else the race of Homo Sapiens would have ended in its infancy.

The Knee-Jerk Reaction is the most common and basic reaction to sudden and damaging action. Rather than thinking through an acceptable course of reaction, humans are prone to snapping like clams at whatever bothers them, being so predictable in this nature that goverments and other sources of authority now use the basic response in elections, inquiries, and court cases, where sudden and mindless outcry from the public is needed.

In times of intelligent thought, the average human being will always default to working towards their own best interest. The effects on others, or more vaguely, the planet and environment, are only ever factored in once every 13 days, and only then, by accident. The wholesale destruction of peers and usable land is quantified as the cost of doing business, as every potential human being seeks the end-game of being rich, materialistic, and unhappy.

Money is worth more than the actions or lives of humans. Lives are snuffed and forgotten. Profit is forever.

Humanity's Goals:

Subjugation is the basis for business. If the slaves rise up, move out and subjugate elsewhere. Cheaper is better. If the workers will work for free, then humanity has reached it's goal of effective business.

Annihalation is the final path of our evolution, contrary to common belief. With the ability to do anything, humankind has become fixated on weapons, destruction, and violence. While many chalk it up to human nature, human nature is enslaved to our concious thought, so therefore, humanity as a whole has made the choice to stare its own extinction in the face.

Sex is the pinnacle of the human male. Males go to extreme lengths in their early lives to breed, sometimes sacrificing everything, including people, simply to have a chance at procreating. While it is important the species continue, the human gene pool is becoming a non-topic, as genes do not contribute the basic intellect that humankind has suddenly started to find lacking.

Apathy is unto itself its own victory. People become impassioned over asinine details and vapid dramas, whilst true trouble brews. When real catastrophe strikes, human beings are too "bored" to take interest, and instead dismiss whatever dark cloud appears on the horizon. It is easier to face the blue sky and be struck by lightning from behind, than to stand prepared and open-eyed in the face of danger or adversity.

4 comments:

apples said...

Ouch

Society/Blame reminded me of 'the fatal attribution error', which is basically how we think about why people do something;

You often do things because of circumstances, while when another person does something, they do it because that's the kind of person they are.

If you don't give money to someone on the street it was because you didn't have the time or you didn't have any money with you. If the guy in front of you doesn't give any either, it's because he's cheap or just doesn't care.

That's how we think anyway. We as human beings, and supposedly the most intelligent species there is, can be incredibly stupid some times... a lot of the time.

--Let's get rid of "I don't care", "whatever" and "it's not my problem". Death to apathy!--

Geoff said...

That's the spirit. However, our protest against apathy is about as effective as every other protest before it... :(

apples said...

You can't protest against apathy, you just gotta make people believe. Belive that doing something will help. Will work. That every single one of us matter. Then there's hope. If you don't got hope, you don't got nothin.

I believe that most people do care, it's just like with recycling: "I can do it, but if I'm the only one it won't do any good" *sending evil thoughts to hopeless roommates*.

Making someone believe is, unfortunately, the hardest thing there is. It's easier not to believe, because you don't have to care. Then it's not your problem.

Oh, and there's no such thing as hopeless (apart from roommates)

Geoff said...

Hopeless is a dark mind walking the world looking for a cause.

One can believe, one can inspire belief, and one can achieve great heights and accomplishments, but such things are not immune to time. The greatest accomplishments can be wiped clean by time, people's forgetfulness, and their apathy towards the past and future.

Apathy, once rooted, can grow older than trees. It's a cyclical fight. Occassionally, the people of the world rise up in unison, like a passionate wave, but like a wave, it quickly disseminates, and only the strongest beliefs and relics remain after the tide.

It sounds cynical, and coming from me,you could be right in thinking so. However, I'm of a belief that even a single hour of inspiration, where the whole world is captivated, is better than the Religion of Me that so many have bought into. If those vacant eyes sparkled but for a moment, I would be content to my own death.