reply to post by Copernicus
This only works because our children listen to their parents since they are depending on them. As adults, we get arrogant, closed-minded and
very, very busy for the rest of our lives.
My point was that without guidance, proper moral advice, children (ie.
us) quite happily shed the thin veneer of civilization we are all coated
with and go on to do what they damn well want.
The analogy applies to adults who have grown up amongst ruthless or criminal elements, or even an environment devoid of care and ethical direction;
they become copies of their parents/role models/peers etc. As you rightly said:
Even if some humans learn and try to do better, there will come new humans who will turn things into crap again.
What we all need is an
undeniable ethic to pursue.
Who knows; maybe religion
was invented by extraterrestrials purely to instill necessary decency in us. The fact that we have manipulated
religion into something that now suits us, as opposed to following the original plan, is testament to our ability to change our paradigm if needs be.
And as an aside; in very general terms, it would also explain why religion – and indirectly G-d – is often held accountable for many of the worst
atrocities ever seen on this planet. In truth, it wasn’t religion’s fault; it was our interpretation of it that is at fault.
If the alien plan is to teach us something, they better have extreme patience.
Well, if some contact stories are to be believed, our visitors can have extreme life spans. And perhaps they view their “plans” as being an
ongoing thing, rather than having a final finish date. And in the sense of dealing with us? Yep, they need all the patience they can muster. Petulant
children we are.
Also, its not the people of highest moral who makes it to the top of the pyramid as you know.
Quite correct. It’s more often the person who fights the hardest, metaphorically speaking, and who can conquer his opponents quickly. You can’t
have a history teeming with accounts of real physical conquest of land and peoples without that immensely successful trait transferring, in differing
forms, into politics and business.
