When was the seed of cruelty planted in humankind? Was it the first time we hunted an animal and feasted on its flesh to pleasure our senses? And if that be the case what does it say of us that we have made of this pleasure killing a manufactured process that has removed emotion with little care for the beasts we so callously farm? How little the difference between the lines that turn a beast to reproduce another offspring for our use that the lines that selected who would live and who would die in Auschwitz or Treblinka? And what of the weapons we have manufactured to expedite this killing curse; hunting rifles, machine guns, atomic bombs? Perhaps the grittiest question of all; have we hardwired this cruelty into our dna so that our children’s children will be the cruelest beast to ever walk the earth even should we outlast our propensity for self-gratification and manage to not kill our own blessed planet. Who is responsible if not you and I, and where does it all end. I am trying to read between the lines of the men who directed the ‘unfit to live’ to the left and right in the concentration camps, thinking that the unfit was on the wrong end of the choosing. But what right do I have to even make that judgment and is it that blasted dna that causes us to bleed cruelty.
Perhaps the greatest hope is that what may have been hardwired into out genetic make-up can also be altered. Our future does not have to lie along this path. Perhaps it is time for a gentler seed to permeate this earth of ours. Perhaps in harmony there can finally be a real peace. Perhaps harmony starts with the vegetarians and the honoring of life. It all starts with the seed we plant.
Perhaps the greatest hope is that what may have been hardwired into out genetic make-up can also be altered. Our future does not have to lie along this path. Perhaps it is time for a gentler seed to permeate this earth of ours. Perhaps in harmony there can finally be a real peace. Perhaps harmony starts with the vegetarians and the honoring of life. It all starts with the seed we plant.