The wonders of evil

The nature of people isn't pleasant. In my mind, we learn to live together because within the years of evolution, it seems to be the best way to survival. However, it doesn't mean that we're innately cooperative or compassionate.

Despite the usual homicide or psycho killers, people tend to act upon group psychology. Watching the 911 incident on tv or live, having the media coming in your ears about it 24-7. It's hard not to be hypnotized with the idea of sympathy and abhorrent by the deeds of terrorists.

Or the image of a child dying on the Oxfam commercial, urging people to donate money to the Africans, the sympathy seems to be synthicised by the image and the solemn voice of, "They need your help" and generated by guilt that we've all sinned.

A roadside accident in a sunny morning with bleeding couple twitching in the bus lane showed the horror of passerbys rather than any immediate rescue. Their lingering eyes simply cannot peel away from the gruesomeness of the sight when nothingness fills their brain.

Fear is the drive of humanity, not sympathy. We think the differentiation from us to chimps is compassion, and yet we steal, murder and betray far more than those that are in the animal kingdom. And those are, ironically, the elements that built our superior society. Some say humans have soul, and yet the 'soul' we have generated more hatred and selfishness than serenity or peace.

From this soul and brain that we equip, have taken us to the civilisation that we now obtain, and soon, to the destruction that lies ahead.