after several days of work/hell, I finally have a day off…
I have been thinking about this for several days…
in regards to philosophy and Alien life… what if they don’t eat
the same way we do… they have found or developed a way to eat that
doesn’t involved eating animals the way we do… let us say, that they get
their nutrition from pills or the air around them feeds them, so they don’t eat
the same way… let us compare this to every human being on earth…
we all eat with our mouths and we eat grown things, be it veggies or be
it animals… if these Aliens came to earth, they wouldn’t understand so much
about our very existence just because we eat the way we do…
the idea about “survival of the fittest” is basically about food…
the competition for food and the “fittest” is the one who gets the food…
in no other sense does “survival of the fittest” works
so we are in competition about food…
ok, so what would this alien civilization think about us?
we have competition because we are in competition for food
but these Aliens aren’t in competition for food…
they have used other means like cooperation to survive…
competition would be beyond their understanding because
they wouldn’t even under the concept of competition the way we
do…
think of the saying, its a dog eat dog world, this makes perfect sense
to us because of the survival of the fittest idea that we have had since
the beginning of time… you eat, you survive, but these Aliens might
not have this…
their very existence is predicated on a very different idea then what we have…
now if we think about this, perhaps the reason human beings haven’t
advance as far as they should have is because of this idea of competition,
of survival of the fittest idea… we need to make the next step in evolution which
is cooperation of the fittest… we survive because we cooperated instead of competing
against each other for food… because at this point in our stage of evolution, we don’t
have to compete for food… the idea of the survival of the fittest no longer applies
to where we are at in our current stage of civilization…the need to compete for our food…
we are at a different stage and we need to begin to adapt to that new stage…
the idea is no longer the survival of the fittest, but how do we advance the civilization best…
cooperation between people, cultures, states… that is the new paradigm… not survival
of the fittest, but cooperation between us…
thinking like aliens have lead me to this… what would thinking like an alien lead you to?
Kropotkin