Saturday, January 26, 2008 . 1/26/2008

There was nothing on TV today, so my mom suggested we watch "Gods must be Crazy" On Demand. She said it's funny, and it's about this tribe in Africa that come across a Coca Cola bottle that fell from a plane and don't know what to make of it. I thought it could be funny, so I watched it - the first 20 minutes or so anyway.

The tribe in the film were peaceful and happy, the narrator said. No crime nor violence were among them. It then changed scenes to 600 miles to the south to the hectic, stressful world of everyday, "civilized" living and then back to the African tribe. Some slob throws a Coca Cola bottle out of a plane and the tribe below thinks it must have been a gift from the gods. Every day they find more and more uses for it, until eventually its use became so valuable it started fights, jealousy, and arguments among the once-peaceful tribe. Some time after that an elder says he will go to the end of the world and throw the thing off the edge. Change scenes once again to city life and robbers come rushing in a building with guns, presumably out of greed. It was then that I said I wouldn't watch anymore because it wasn't funny at all, but depressing.

It made me think that our world today, the environment that we created for ourselves, has caused us to become greedy shits that couldn't care less about anyone else. It's all about money, jobs, and more money. Our basic instinct of family life and cooperation is still there, but not as much as it should or could be. We get people who say they hate people. Yet our ancestors depended on each other, they actually valued company and depended on one another to live. But now we don't need that. When we get old enough to move out we do and hate or even dread seeing family after that. It makes me think that this world we created for ourselves is the cause of most crime in the world and besides that, we have created the delusion that other living creatures don't matter. There is no harmony and we contribute absolutely nothing useful to the earth.

And yet through all this, through all of our knowledge we have gained, most people still believe in some form of god and are ignorant and arrogant enough to think that they alone matter whilst creating wars OVER THE SAME IMAGINARY BEING. When there's a funeral, what really matters apparently is a god and not the actual person who has died.

It's enough to make me ashamed of being human. When will people ever figure out that we're all in this together? We all live, we all die, and we all live on the same planet.

We have evolved great intelligence but at the same time great ignorance and stupidity.

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