the whimsy
click on the letters to proceed
We’ll hit South Broadway in a matter of minutes
And like a bad movie, I’ll drop a line
Fall in the grave I’ve been digging myself,
But there’s room for two
Six feet under the stars
my hand in yours,
differences are of no significance
with you by my side,it's fulfillment
nothing else i'd need,your love suffices
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
why were we made so different? today(a few times before also got la but lazy to blog about it) i asked myself this question.
a species has only one function and that is to survive for as long as possible.that's a basic fact of life.well,if you're well-read like the person blogging this,you'd know that a species not having a diverse enough gene pool will bear inefficiencies and deformities(read: cancer,down's syndrome etc) in the long run.so this is the reason you can't marry your hot sister.oh, yea and also because that's incest and it's frowned upon in our society.so in-breeding within a species ultimately leads to its extinction.contradictory,no? so we are actually killing ourselves fucking around? Luckily for us, our species were favourited on God's Google,so 2 million years ago,the seeds of humanity were planted at different geographical locations on earth.the segregated humans evolved differently over millennia thus each locale's inhabitants developed unique strengths and weaknesses based on the different climatic conditions they were exposed to.the purpose was to make us intrinsically homogeneous,yet wholly non-homogeneous.therefore,many years after,we'd be able to have a vast genetic pool to tap into so we can survive that much longer.our eventual extinction can be delayed by an exponential factor! but,can we?
unfortunately,it turns out the large majority of us are unable to look beyond our differences which were developed for the greater good of the species.2 world wars,tens of inter-civilisation wars,hundreds of inter-state battles,thousands of skirmishes and millions of neighbourhood spats were fought out in our chaotic history.you may blame the consequences of events as their causes but consider this:
would world war 2 have occurred if Hitler didn't think of the Aryans as the superior race? would the Japanese have ambitious expansion plans for Asian domination if the rest of Asia were Japanese too? the ancient wars between civilizations? would you demean the humble manual labourer seeking opportunities in your country if he was of your dad's colour? why is it we need racial quotas for public housing here?
hell,the Japanese would have stayed at their fisheries and the Persians in 300 would have stayed home farming grain if everyone else looked the same.and c'mon,not all of them are Banglas.in fact,only a small proportion of them are.Banglas come from Bangladesh and most of them stay home to dig trenches and build dams so the next monsoon won't flood Dhaka.apparently,the blue circle-red lightning feels that grouping by colour breeds insecurities among races.how true.
the simple fact of the matter is,we want to kill each other because we cannot stand others being different from us.if there were no racial quotas,one day when enough hate is generated between the different races which occupy the different neighbourhood estates,the people of Bedok would wage war against the people of Tampines then Tanah Merah would have justified its own name(translation:red soil).
since being different is for the greater good of Man,why hate something innately beneficial? the earlier we overcome this fatal flaw of narrow-mindedness the better.earth will be such a happy place to live on then.Singaporeans can one day proclaim,"we love how we are so different from each other!" every National Day from then instead of just reciting,"...regardless of race,language or religion..." once a year and then not taking it into heart for the rest of the year.
well,we've got time till the aliens come a-knocking.benign aliens:our internal strife weakens us,then they colonize us and we become second-class citizens of their great united galactic empire.malicious aliens:we get bombed to oblivion.just hope the Vulcans beat the Klingons to it if we don't sort ourselves by then.
i believe there is a celestial reason why humans were made different.and it is not because God set the baking clock wrong several times.
P.S. please don't take everything posted here seriously.the bottom line:make love not war!
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