You're a human. You were born a human. You look like a human. You are a human. And hence, you must care about nothing and be unbelievably stupid. However, as much as it is by unofficial rule that you be incredibly foolish and, well, fool around with absolute retarded-ness, there are strict guidelines you must adhere to. Makes no sense? Welcome to the world, my friend.
First of all, humans have hardly any mind of their own. Apparently, we were given the gift of thought but of course, someone decided to leave that gift to rot in the back of his mind and everyone followed him because it was just too easy to forget what differentiates us from the "lesser beings". You see, although we can think, we don't think. Isn't it too tiring, you know, to actually reflect on your actions, to give a damn about how much it hurts when you stick that Nike into someone else's face? All you have to do is hear the laughing around you from the idiots you call friends and immediately just deduce that 'bullying = good' and do it all over again. What about that bespectacled boy in the corner of the class who did nothing wrong but who everyone's always teasing? The one who sits alone at Recess, the empty chairs his only company? The one you see nothing wrong about? Well, of course if everybody else is alienating him, then you have to do the same, don't you ? Don't worry if you can't think of an insult because if you just pay a bit of attention to all the gossip around you, to what those "popular" dudes say about him, you're bound to hear something nasty which you can just repeat later. What if they realise you're just copying what they said? Well, humans do that all the time, regardless of whether they understand it at all. Oh and don't forget this. When some random, balding guy with a tie comes along, saying he can make a change, saying he can make your life better blah blah blah? As a human, you have no right to question his speeches (provided you even listened) and you just go along with him if everybody else is. Humans don't think. Remember that. Don't question whoever put on that tag with "leader" on it even if the word looks like it was scribbled on by a three-year-old with severed thumbs. Nope. That would be so un-human-like.
Another thing about humans is that we are selfish little beings with black holes where our hearts should be. Well, we are supposed to have consciences but most people just throw it to the ground, stamp on it and then stab it if it so much as lets out a whimper. We don't care about anything. We don't care if taking the last cookie means another starving child attempting to hold on to life with his frail, tiny grasp, we don't care if refusing to yield means black eyes for everybody or broken arms or gun wounds or bloody death (because seriously, what is there to care about disappearing from this world to be lost forever in the endless shadows?). We don't care about the well-being of anyone around us except ourselves. We don't care if people out there are creating bombs using nuclear power that could wipe out mass amounts of innocent children and we don't care if wasting energy is going to lead to Global Whatever and kill us all and end all possibilities of a future generation. We don't care about using that tiny amount of effort to flick off a switch as we leave a room though we indeed give some thought to running that mile from the position in front of the television to the kitchen to the room with the iPod and then searching everywhere for that phone charger. We don't care that wasting energy might lead to natural disasters-floods with the drowning children and their agonized silent screams, droughts with the burning heat that treats the people as play toys for the sadistic toddler, anything that would give pain the "go" sign and send it hunting others down. We don't care. Need I repeat that again?
Last but definitely not the least, humans are suicidal. Do you think not caring about anything would do you any good? Especially if it's bullying and being mean and war and Global Warming? Of course not! But it is part of being a human being, this not-caring-so-that-I-would-die-soon way of thinking. We let Global Warming continue because that would mean the end of the world as we know it and don't we all just love to die? We follow foolish, incapable nitwits and address them as our "rulers" because they'll probably send you off to meaningless war every 3 seconds and wouldn't that be an awesome death sentence? Don't we just love the pain and the infinite darkness and the sorrowful tears of our loved ones? The bloodshed and the explosions and the severed flesh and destruction? The pull of all that we have known to exist into that bony grip of the Grim Reaper? The end to all the things we love and treasure with our hearts? Yes, we want that. Because we're human and we don't care about anything. Not others, not us, not logic. Nothing.
Doesn't make sense? Good. That means you're human.
Woah. Sarcasm overload. Rhetorical questions. It feels like I’m reading an exemplar AQA English Paper 1 Q3 answer (Don’t ask. It’s basically just an English exam thingy).
ReplyDeleteBut a lot better than some of the crap I’ve come up with in the past when answering that question. *nods*
About the writing itself…you refer to humans as “we”, because you are one of us (unless there’s something you aren’t telling me…), but then you go on a rant on how humans are ruining the world and the downfalls of human nature, and it becomes pretty clear that, even though you a member of the human race (probably), there’s still a sense of detachment, particularly evoking a feeling of being an outsider and overriding helplessness , seeing how people can mess up the world and each other. And perhaps some shamefulness as well? Apologising for the way humanity as a whole is acting, even though it’s not your fault, because you still feel connected to some degree to the way humans act.
These feelings are expressed very well, especially by employing the use of sarcasm as the main tool, and a couple of metaphors that give a vivid representation of some of the ways in which man continue to corrupt the world.
However, I don’t exactly agree with what you’re saying. Humans can be murderous and violent but there are some good to us, methinks. Might write a response to this one day, if that’s alright with you?
…I seem to like writing long paragraphs today.
Anyways, looking forward to what you might come up with next.
I'm not human, I understand everything.
ReplyDeleteIt's good, mainly because anyone can relate to it, everyone has bound to be selfish at least once in his/her lifetime.
However, not everyone is THAT bad. C'mon. At least dedicate a paragraph to the people who are nice. Good humans like Mother Theresa and all those missionaries and volunteer workers, leaving their far more advanced city to the suburban streets of African or some random country which needs help, striving to make that country a better place, and they aren't even citizens of that country.
I protest. Write a paragraph on good people. At least a paragraph.