Well, here we are again!

I hope that you are still on line, because I wish to talk to you about that very important issue of “Survival”. I recall that it was that eminent biologist, Charles Darwin who propounded the thesis, giving rise to the phrase “Survival of the Fittest”. This, he correctly assumed from his observation of wild life in their natural environment, was the way that wild life competed and survived the hazards of their natural environment. However, I do not recall him saying that Human life was ordained to follow this “Law of the Jungle”, in order to survive in society.

Survival among all living things is of paramount concern for the continuation of their species. Although Darwin also observed another natural law, equally applicable in nature, the “Law of Co-existence and Interdependence”, this principle did not suit the rulers and would be rulers of the germinating Industrial Revolution. This law tells us that all living things, including people are dependant on each other of their own species as well as among various other species and forms of “Life Energies”. We often refer to this law as “the instinct for survival”. In the wild we observe this as a struggle to survive, which is made more precarious when humans enter the picture at the dominant position as master of all creation. This law of survival tells me that natural elements, if used wisely as resource products have a tendency to naturally renew themselves in a sustainable manner. It follows that the corollary of this is: If we over use, we are sure to lose (waste not, want not).

In conclusion, I suggest that if Mankind as a species is to survive, then we must get busy and begin the design for a society that is built around the principles of Cooperation as opposed to Competition as the fundamental way of life. In this society, “Caring and Sharing” would become the universal watchword.

Let us not be the dominant life form that, in its greed, reaching for the summit of the wrong peak, slipped and fell into oblivion!

Timothy Haystubble – (Grass Roots Philosopher)

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