Quo Vadis Homo Sapiens?

Ironically, even among us, the only intelligent being on earth, according to our own standards, aggressiveness and competitive behaviour hold the key for success, not intelligence. A strong dumb people can always crush a weaker but more intelligent one. And does it. It’s a pity. We would know enough now to guarantee a happy life for every being on this planet. But humans are selected for aggressiveness, and we can’t jump over our own genetic shadow. Evolution can’t restart an organism from scratch. We can’t change human nature. And if we don’t change we won’t make it for much longer. Another ten thousand years? Highly improbable, considering the damage we have caused in only the last one hundred years. It’s obvious, it’s silly, we all know what humanity would need to do; but we don’t. We know it and we don’t. And there will always be war, and there will always be someone cutting the last tree and fishing the last fish. That’s the hard limit of our type of intelligence. That’s where the primate grins. And so be it; Homo sapiens sapiens, creation’s self-nominated crowing glory, and the last representative of the genus Homo, will not even have delved on earth for half a million years. An extremely short-lived evolutionary flop. After all, it really wasn’t a good idea to make this brain just that little bit bigger. Just a little bigger.
(Taken from BLT: 'This Monkey's Gone To Heaven')