My worldview.

When I was growing up I had a certain impression of the world. And here it is.
     I imagined like the world was one giant competition, with everything competing all the time with each other. Plants, animals, everything was competing to the fullest extent of its capability. Competing to be the strongest, competing to get the food, competing to reproduce, and competing to even just stay alive.
     Each of these animals or plants each were trying their hardest to expand and grow as much as possible, but they were held in place by a system of checks and balances, where all of the other species wouldn’t let them advance. For instance, Monkeys might have 7 babies, and two of them would survive.
      But, lo and behold, here came humans, us, and when we figured out how to escape this, they became the first and only species to be able to evolve above the rest of the community of life. I thought of it as kind of like trying to enter a sports game where everyone is competing to qualify, and only one species qualified. And that would be us. Its like we are the only ones who can even get in the game to play. Everyone else does want to compete, but they just aren’t able to because they are just held back by everything else. They aren’t good enough. It literally makes us above, and better then all the rest. Since if we weren’t better then everything else, then we wouldn’t be here. We would be back in the jungle, doing everything we could just to survive.
     Pretty much, all the other animals are in a constant state of competition, and probably suffering, with two squirrels competing over the same acorn for survival, or only 1 out of 7 pups surviving and having to fight it out over the downed animal. So slowly each animal who survives develops bigger claws or stronger teeth, but as they do this to try to get an edge, all the other animals develop their adaptations, like a stronger exoskeleton, or poisonous or bad smelling fur or something like that to detract the others and nobody could get ahead. But we figured it out. We figured out how to qualify.
     And here is the problem. I saw since we were so wildly successful and since being successful obviously means rising above the rest of that giant arena, where everyone is scrambling to get ahead, that we would of course start edging out all the rest of the stuff trying to enter the game. Which is the entire point of the competition anyway. To win. To expand and win the game. So the problem is that if you stay successful, then you eventually edge out everything else until you edge out something that you depend on, or you get too big, or too vulnerable, and you have a big collapse. The horrible thing is that you can only be successful for a little while before you become too successful and then you go away, because you have destroyed everything else. So in a way, we are completely fated to end up destroying ourselves. And thats how nature stays in balance. If any species gets too successful, the game is set up that they will destroy themselves, and this is how nature keeps all species in a constant state of competition and tension, which it can never deviate from. But what can we do? We would never want to give up the success that we have gotten since why would we want to go back to the competition and the tension? That sucked, we would not want to go back to being the ones who didn’t make the regular season. We could never go back to the way it was. So Its better to have a few moments of freedom then never have freedom at all.
     That makes even the rules of the game our enemy to be overcome. The entire game seems to be set up to prevent anyone from winning too much. So to really win (not die) we have to do everything we can to make sure we can really win before we get destroyed. So in a way that means we have to tame our basic instincts, of greed, of power, of expansion, which WERE the key to our survival and change our very evolutionary way of being to something more tame, and less greedy and power hungry to control our population and our destructive instincts to stop expanding. Its almost like we have nothing to lose because if we don’t then we will just lose anyway. So as we have it, we are enemies of all of nature, and enemies of ourselves here. Not only that, but we also have to weed out all the people who are not the best players, like the ones who don’t work hard who don’t play the game as well as we do, since they could cost us the game, and weaken us a lot. Its like the team is only as strong as our weakest link.
     What irony. That we have been working for 3 million years to enter this amazing game, then actually find out that not only is everything else our enemy but the game itself is our enemy. And the only way to win is to basically grow to become better then we have ever been before.
    So. Being alive as us means we are lonely and separate from everything else, we can not trust ourselves and constantly have to keep battling with ourselves, and be dealing with others on our own team who aren’t as good at playing the game, AND we need to rewrite and rewire the rules of the game itself, which is nature. And worst of all, it doesn’t look like we are going to win. So we definitely need a new star player. Obama maybe...

     I knew this story when I was in elementary school.

     Thats enough.