Darwin’s theory told us about the survival of the fittest, Neanderthals were more physically fit than us but Homo-sapiens won only because of UNITY (yes, you read that right). Neanderthals were strong individually but they were not united, they lived to eat and sleep but Homo sapiens were socially active. What made us united ? Well, 3 things made us united——
- GOSSIPS – when we gossip, we became close. A person can easily connect to someone who can gossip with him/her.
- DEPICTING REALITY – Gossips can connect people on small scale, but depicting real stories makes us more together.
- IMAGINED REALITY – The most important, this is what really makes Homo sapiens together, this is what I usually say, believing in stories that never existed, this is what Homo sapiens are good at. Still don’t believe me? Let me give you an example- Do you have patriotic feelings ? Why do soldiers fight and die for their country ? Can you tolerate someone abusing your country ? No, right? Let me ask you, “What are Countries ?” Never thought about it ? Well Countries are Imagined Realities, the stories that keep us together. Still don’t understand? Well, do you believe in God ? What makes you believe in God ? What makes you disbelieve in God ? Stories, right… Stories no one knows, but they make us together… so, it was Imagined Reality that made Homo sapiens the winner.
“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.”
-Yuval noah harari
I believe that we didn’t win the first time we fought, but we Homo sapiens didn’t give up, we became more united and more strong after every defeat (ANTI-FRAFILE). Ever felt that you can’t win after your first defeat and you give up, well we homo-sapiens have a history of being defeated but we never gave up. Now, at least if you don’t believe in yourself the next time you try to give up, just believe in your ancestors’s genes.
Sometimes Defeat is also good ( what did I just say ?). Yes, you heard it right. Don’t believe me, let me tell you WE EVOLVED FROM A DEFEAT . The GREAT APES (our grandparents) used to stay on trees but due to the increase in population(among other reasons), some weak among them were forced to leave trees (defeated) and that weak were US. So, next time you get defeated just remember this , we all are what we are because of a defeat, if we have won then we might be Monkeys, Chimpanzees today.
Coming back to the War, that war caused more casualties than we can ever imagine, it led to the extinction of our closest relatives. So, was it the deadliest war ? Extinction of a whole genus (except us), what can be more deadly and bloodier than that. Well, I have yet another story, another Imagined Reality..
How did dinosaurs become extinct ? What happened 65.5 millions years ago, that led to the extinction of three-quarters of living organism ( that we even don’t know) ? Where did we come from ? Are we really from this Earth ?
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff”.
-Carl sagan
It is believed that a comet hit the surface of the Earth 66 million years ago, (a comet that if delayed by seconds wouldn’t even have touched the Earth) destroying dinosaurs and three quarters of living organisms (Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event) which were the oldest known members of the Earth (165 million years before). What if that Comet was planned by someone else ? What if some aliens who were on the verge of extinction on their planet found earth suitable for them ?
In the book, Humans are not from Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of the Evidence, Dr. Silver presents 17 reasons why humans are not suited for living on this planet. He believes these reasons indicate we originated from another planet. He says that while Earth meets some of our needs as a species, it is not as good a fit for us as much as “whoever brought us here initially thought”.
Scientists and researchers believe that, eons ago, Humanoids inhabited MARS but a war destroyed the habitability of the planet. This could have been due to the equivalent of two hydrogen bombs exploding on Mars 300,000 to 1 million years ago. Is it possible some living beings were able to escape to Earth before the destruction?
So, was this the most deadly WAR ? A planned war by us to destroy billions of species to make earth suitable for us ( we all know how greedy we are)? Are we ALIENS ? Was everything Planned ? What if the WARS OF BROTHERS I depicted earlier was MAHABHARATA (can you feel the goosebumps? ), a war that destroyed millions ? What if the Kauravas ( Mahabharata) were different species ? Just think how small these WW1 and WW2 now feel to you ? Or The Deadliest War is about to come, A war between Nature and Humans. I think this war has just catch fire by the burning of the AMAZON Rainforest and will be the deadliest. What you think ? Can we stop this war ? or after billions of years, someone (a new race) will be writing about THE DEADLIEST WAR EVER . The Mystery Remains………
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
-albert einstein.
Signing off,
Yash Varshney
Cogitare Et Credere
- Credits-
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
- Humans are not from Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of the Evidence by Dr.Silver.
- Gaia.com
- Vasu Gupta ( for his valuable and rich English Vocabulary).
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