Bless and Curse

OK... I'm well aware of what I'm going to write will be hard to swallow. It is just the truth, a very crude one. We may close our eyes or turn our glance, but it is there, grabbing our necks.

We must acknowledge how far we reached through our most daring enterprise: the civilization. Without it, we would be little more than monkeys in a jungle. All our current achievments and initiatives would be impossible.

But we are now facing our condemnation, our evolutionary breakdown.

What makes the species survive and go on is the natural selection. The fittest one (in one way or another) remains. The other ones perish. That easy. Until some time in history, humankind followed this principle. And then, the invention of civilization made possible the survival of those ones that, in normal wild circumstances, would not live longer to spread their seeds. The strategy for survival worked, but from this moment on, our genetic pool started to be depleted.

As the time passed, the civilization operated to change the world in order to guarantee its condition of living. Humankind dodged the natural selection, and worse, made its life dependant on artificial means. Scarcity of food was overcome, environment was not a problem anymore.

One day, the last nail was put on our evolutionary coffin. The diseases could be faced in efficient ways.

Consequences? People weaker against diseases could live... and spread. People with genetical tendencies towards undesirable conditions, less resistant to adverse environments, to scarcity of food or water survived and spread. And polluted our genetic pool. Me, for instance, I have a visual problem with genetic origin. Unless civilization, I would be unfit and would not remain, and this bad genetic trace would disappear with me.

Let's imagine: what if the civilization disappears? WE ARE CONDEMNED, and we cannot do anything. However, a disaster of this proportion would have a positive side-effect: it would stop our genetic stagnation and restart our evolution.

Human species is in danger of extinction.

Don't stop using your neurons!!