Colossal Collateral

There are a couple 5 yr old spoiled bratty unsupervised kids walking home from school down a forest trail during autumn dry season. They have been bored all day at school and are feasting on candy, that the one boys’ rich, disregardful parents left him in his lunch, so they are hyped up and eager for excitement. They see something shiny and intriguing, 15 feet off the path, by a tree, and go to check it out. It’s a blow torch! (some idiot left it there for some reason, and it happens to be light weight and very simple to operate…)

These kids..; are the human race.

Before the rapid spur of development of technology (which is unfortunately, for the current circumstances, fundamentally virtually exponential), there wasn’t any significant risk of widespread (let alone, planetary) damage or effect from the careless and recklessness of any species on the planet. But now that capabilities, potential, and power have increased so much with the overpowering and reigning controlling species of the Earth, we have found that blowtorch! We are at a dangerous, universally life threatening point, in which we have too much unintended effect and impact on fundamental elements of the entire planets ecosystem, causing what could be considered collateral damage.

As humans (a very high percentage would be my guess) in general, are still mainly determined to take action specifically only to benefit themselves as an individual, all the while oblivious to any logical consequences that may result from their actions and decisions, the world is in a very dangerous stage as of now. It is human nature to be selfish and ignorant, just as it is with nearly all animals, as that has proven to be self-species beneficial up to this point. 

But, there is a difference, in that humans have the capability and potential to overcome, overpower, and overrule this selfishness. Humans have been given the gift of awareness and comprehension. We are aware and very capable of being conscious of general existence, as well as cause and effect, which is a significant differential from all other “dumb” animals on the planet. But the selfishness and lack of consideration of any situation (aka ignorance), still has a strong remaining presence in most humans typical brain processes. Selfishness and ignorance are still mostly overwhelming for the majority of humans and -if you believe in evolution- this makes sense, as we are still developing as a species from the less capable species we may have come from.

There is almost always collateral damage, but we may be at a point where we cause too much from our capabilities, as a result of lack of effective, controlled, and maintained use of such capabilities. Lack of control is caused by a lack of development of thinking, understanding, and comprehending or general use of the brain, which of course humans are only beginning to experience.

Rather than the historically typical minuscule collateral, we are in an age of Colossal Collateral!