A very amusing thing just happened. It might not seem amusing to anyone else, but it was in some way, an amusement to me nonetheless. I saw a cat. Just your average house cat, sleek, black, domesticated. She was licking herself, preening her fur and every now and then she�d look at her tail. She�d look at it with a kind of bemused detachment, like it was nothing to do with her that it was twitching up and down on the floor. It was as if she was trying to ignore it, as she cleaned, like a tired mother tries to ignore her children�s screaming as she�s trying to get on with the cooking. But you could see it was getting to her. Some tension seeping through her very being, that annoyed feeling you get when you know you�ve just done something utterly moronic. Then she snapped, she�d had enough with the incessant flicking of the tail, and she pounced. As she got closer to it, and her body turned with the movement, the tail seemed to follow suit. This only served to fuel her anger, she chased and chased, seemingly oblivious to the circles she was making on the carpet. After what seemed like an eternity of the cat chasing the tail, the cat ended the feud. She decided it wasn�t worth the time or energy she was putting into it and walked away, head held high; the look of the dignified but defeated. I don�t know if she was aware that her tail was following her, or whether she just ignored it to save face.

It is strange that such a small thing could amuse such a person as me. Or any person. Perhaps this shows the primitive forces that drive us. People do find endless amounts of joy in watching those we consider more primitive to ourselves. Is it a strange sense of arrogance, or just a fascination; knowing that once, we too were such creatures. I suppose it brings up the question of how evolved we actually are. Just by observing the simplest things we see that we are, as a race of people, a culture based on instinct. If we were so evolved, we would have learned from our history that war is not a good idea (although sometimes inevitable, many world leaders seem to think it is the only means to an end of ultimate peace, but we have time and time again seen that this does not happen). If we were so evolved we would know that there can never be true peace, because there will always be tension when it comes to people�s differing perceptions of reality and how peace and order can be achieved. There can never be true peace because everyone is different; one person�s idea of peace is another�s chaos. Our own hormones tell us to fight and be aggressive. Our brain�s automatically stereotype people. We instinctively look for partners with whom we can procreate; partners who possess qualities that we wish our offspring to possess. This is something we do subconsciously, when we meet all people, whether we want to or not. People are discriminated against because of looks. Society depicts young, slim, �beautiful� people as those who are successful. If you are fat, balding, or �ugly�, you will be a failure. Everybody does it; the popular people in school were always the confident, clear-skinned, fashionable people. If you do not conform to this stereotype you are brushed off, forgotten. Is this the action of a race of creatures who are highly evolved, intelligent people?

Perhaps we consider ourselves more intelligent because we are capable of language and free thought. We are so highly evolved that we managed to gain power over all other animals on this planet by slowly wiping them out and finding new ways to kill them. We are so intelligent that we destroy the amenities the environment has given us in order to survive. Now, we are so very evolved we no longer have to worry about other creatures, we fight amongst ourselves, and it has become a case of the dominant country, the dominant nationality of people. So not only are we destroying the environment that we need to survive on this planet, we are destroying ourselves by coming up with lots of new toys we can blow up other countries with, and pretty shiny guns we can shoot eachother with, because that is what we highly evolved, highly intelligent people do.

Which leads me onto another point. Something I find highly amusing is that environmentalists are the most arrogant, self-obsessed, self-preserving snobs known to man. They think that for some reason, the human race is so important we should do our damnedest to preserve the environment. Perhaps they are the most primitive of us all. They think that we are so powerful that we could destroy the environment. Well we can�t. We can destroy ourselves. Let us look at this wholly logically. For example, we use CFC�s and burn fossil fuels and make a big hole in our ozone layer. This in turn will melt the polar ice caps; the sea level will rise, engulfing all land in water. This in turn will kill us all. But, the environment will still be there. I suppose the heat that melted the polar ice caps will evaporate the excess of water and slowly restore the balance of the earth�s environment. The earth will begin again minus the human race. In all fairness, I believe this will probably give the earth a better chance. At least there won�t be humans dumping nuclear waste into the ocean, destroying rainforests and the likes. Humans, in the scheme of things aren�t really very important. The planets will continue to revolve around the earth, the universe will go on as normal. Any other beings on any other planets wherever they may be will continue to go on. The universe is not going to miss a race that was stupid enough to kill themselves off despite the chances they were given.

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