no bombs, no monstrous annihilations, no catagorical assimilations, just the nature of the beast. as a race the humans may wipe themselves out to an extent, but like any good parasitic beast, they come back stronger and more vile. darwinism at its worst. but that’s not the best part, as egocentric as the humans tend to be, they often fail to remember that they were once, long-ago, neanderthal and cro-magnon man. and with every evolution, there is a significant but subtle loss of connection to their primate relatives. moreover, familiar links break down as we trace humans back to their amphibian and aquatic ancestors until the only thing that they have in common with one another is their classification as living organisms. so what happens in 80 million years, when the earth’s environment has changed to the point that the beasts there survive in climates too harsh for humans to survive? of course, they will have evolved in such a way as to accomidate their environment. and by then will those creatures feel any sort of connection to the humans of today besides the obvious fact that they are also living creatures? i say no. and nature’s ticking clock of evolution says that eventually humanity must dissolve or be destroyed by a more functional version of themselves. an impending doom that moves at such speeds that it is functionaly infinitesimal, but more savage and deadly than any human or god can exercise because it is the nature of the beast that kills it, hell-bent on self-annihilation.

December 30th, 2001 at 9:24 pm in Nature and Science

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