So, for my first entry. The only people I feel I can tell my philosophies to without boring them to death are my parents, my long time sweetheart and now best friend Ilmini, Neomal De Silva and Akbo Rupasinghe, who is fascinated by the weird things I think. The person I have the most time to talk to about these things in my dad, but that's when he isn't busy. He loves to talk for hours with me about things like war and pollution, and we argue a lot, sometimes. But still, I have damn too much free time on my hands and too little listeners, so I have to write all these things down so as I don't go crazy. I try to keep a simple mind and not convey to anyone about the thoughts going on in my head, but that has been hard recently with me thinking so much and daydreaming. I don't expect everyone to read this, I don't want everyone's deaths due to boredom on my conscience, but I do hope that a sympathetic soul with similar views will heed my thoughts and say something in return. I must warn you in advance: most of my thoughts can be childishly sentimental and sometimes downright stupid. So don't bother. This is just a record book I'm keeping. So I've given you all my reasons. I've laid my cards on the table. Time to start playing!
Recently I spoke with Thaththa about the human race. He says that seeing community development projects going on all around Colombo makes him sad. He says Nature will never ever win. I quoted something to him from The Matrix(yes, The Matrix!); 'Humans can't be classified as mammals. Other normal mammals develop an equilibrium with their surroundings and flourish. Humans, on the other hand, have no such equilibrium. They move in to an area and they take and take until every resource is gone. So humans are closer to being a virus. And we(the machines) are the cure!'-Agent Smith,The Matrix.
My dad added to that saying that humans also change their environment, bringing in alien species and artificial things that harm the area they have just destroyed even further. I tend to believe that humans can do no harm to Nature. Earth has survived for eons through much bigger purges than that done by the human race. What's a mere bit of pollution when you compare it with the mass extinction of the Permian, which took out around 99% of all life? Humans are a mere dot on the vast blackboard of time and space. Even after we have killed everything on the planet and consequently killed ourselves, life would start anew again without any problems whatsoever, even if we desecrated the landscape with nuclear activity or drained all the water, Earth is too valuable a gift for Life to ignore for long. The only planet in the vast solar system which was the perfect size, and the perfect distance from the sun for water to exist on it. So I guess I shouldn't worry about the environment, right? Wrong. I worry about what will happen to humans. Although Nature does not depend on humankind for its survival, we do depend on Nature. And destroying Nature, i.e. our natural habitat, will inevitably lead to either us having to leave our home planet or dying out completely. The former seems more plausible. But that's a problem to be faced by humans thousands or maybe even millions of years in to the future.
See, I got it all out! That'll be all for today I guess. I'm hungry and should be having dinner now! Goodnight!
Recently I spoke with Thaththa about the human race. He says that seeing community development projects going on all around Colombo makes him sad. He says Nature will never ever win. I quoted something to him from The Matrix(yes, The Matrix!); 'Humans can't be classified as mammals. Other normal mammals develop an equilibrium with their surroundings and flourish. Humans, on the other hand, have no such equilibrium. They move in to an area and they take and take until every resource is gone. So humans are closer to being a virus. And we(the machines) are the cure!'-Agent Smith,The Matrix.
My dad added to that saying that humans also change their environment, bringing in alien species and artificial things that harm the area they have just destroyed even further. I tend to believe that humans can do no harm to Nature. Earth has survived for eons through much bigger purges than that done by the human race. What's a mere bit of pollution when you compare it with the mass extinction of the Permian, which took out around 99% of all life? Humans are a mere dot on the vast blackboard of time and space. Even after we have killed everything on the planet and consequently killed ourselves, life would start anew again without any problems whatsoever, even if we desecrated the landscape with nuclear activity or drained all the water, Earth is too valuable a gift for Life to ignore for long. The only planet in the vast solar system which was the perfect size, and the perfect distance from the sun for water to exist on it. So I guess I shouldn't worry about the environment, right? Wrong. I worry about what will happen to humans. Although Nature does not depend on humankind for its survival, we do depend on Nature. And destroying Nature, i.e. our natural habitat, will inevitably lead to either us having to leave our home planet or dying out completely. The former seems more plausible. But that's a problem to be faced by humans thousands or maybe even millions of years in to the future.
See, I got it all out! That'll be all for today I guess. I'm hungry and should be having dinner now! Goodnight!