Evolution

In typing you enter a certain melodic rhythm like the one I heard earlier when listening to the birds singing and hearing people shouting in the background. Human language has far more in common with birdsong than other primate’s communication. When hearing the people shouting and the birds singing it all merged. Even though they sounded disparate there was similarity and connection. Beauty was found in the seemingly raucous verbal chaos.

Much can be said for life in general being like that, it does to an extent make sense.
It would seem that organisms in the natural world perform a function within naturally occurring systems and as those systems change so do the inhabitants of the ecosystem. Those not best suited to carrying out their functions die out, in a word, evolution.
Humanity evolved from other forms of life following these rules, however on top of our biological evolution we have developed sophisticated cultural evolution, the pace at which we culturally evolve speeding up all the time as new innovations, firstly language, then the written word and now modern mass communications increase the speed at which our cultural evolution takes place.
Humans are generally rational beings, within their worldview, the problem is that this does not necessarily coincide with reality. Humanity’s cultural evolution in addition to our genetic evolution has created problems for us.

As we humans have our creative spark, in addition to what makes us an animal it means that we have the capacity to be more inventive than we might otherwise be, however, this creativity partly caused by our complex cultural evolution could also be our undoing.
We have the capacity to create complex societies and separate ourselves off from the natural world; we can live out our whole lives and have no link to it.

When we live in tribal or indigenous societies we tend not to have this problem, as the societies are too small scale to lose touch with the natural world. Now that we have come up with large complex societies where our natural urges to compete with one another are extenuated/exaggerated far beyond what they would be in a natural setting, combined with people’s loss of perception of sustainability mean that our risk of self destruction is far higher than it might otherwise be.
Basically without our imagination we would never have developed large complex civilizations, yet ironically it is this very imagination that could be our undoing.
It does make one wander if we’ve been rather wasting our time, we might have been happier just staying in the trees.

When people talk about the natural world as if it were as far away as Neptune, I think they are barking up the wrong tree. There is only one world, this one, we live on it and are part of a natural system, if we cut ourselves off from it we in turn live in an unsustainable way. We must not look at nature on sentimental grounds for reasoning for protecting it, it is our very life support system. If anything can be said about the human race being unique it is that we may be the only species in history to wipe itself out.