The Human Animal: A Revelation of Hypocrisy

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INTRODUCTION

This book is dedicated to those free thinkers who are always searching for truth and understanding of human behavior and for those who are not afraid to challenge the conventional wisdom and its faults and ignorance.

This book will endeavor to present ideas, which strive to create the truthful story of humanity in a simple summary, and is presented in plain English. The work will concentrate its effort toward human development in a very broad sense in hopes of generating new and fresh ideas to foster in the framework of a broader perspective.

In other words, I wish to present a forest view other than the view of the many trees. It is my opinion that the view of the past and the prediction of the future can be best obtained by taking a forest view approach and not to become entangled in the minor complexities of the tree details. This work is directed toward understanding the development of Western civilization, since it is the sphere of my knowledge.

The work is especially relevant so that young people can see a broad picture of where we are as a people, where we have been, and to play a positive role in our future. Young people generally do not have enough life experience to understand human behavior. Young people are the ones, especially the university educated, who often pick up on an elusive revolutionary cause to pursue. The cause is usually planted in their fertile minds by a crackpot professor.

Some statements will be stated as my opinion and may be subject to contradictory debate and other statements will be historical fact without details in which I invite readers to check the historical facts for themselves. You probably could best describe this work as an organized, short, and very broad summary of human behavior and the influencing factors of that behavior. I shall try to touch on all factors influencing human behavior that have largely determined the present state of human existence.

I offer a philosophical perspective, which I believe portrays the truth of past experience as I see it in my own humble reasoning. I wish that this work would help those who ask. Who am I? Why do I do what I do? Where have we humans been and where are we going? I hope that they may state that I have never looked at the broad picture before and I have never thought of it that way.

This work will endeavor to explain the fact that it is the quest for wealth and power, which determines the destiny of human populations, and that religion has a very important key role in the quest. Also, it is the wealthy and powerful people who make history, and chart the course for human destiny. In my opinion, history is written only about the actions of the wealthy and powerful with their successes and failures. Very little is written and taught in our schools about average life in Western civilization. Much of history is the study of the struggle between the Haves and the Have-Nots. This work will endeavor to show that the common uneducated man is caught up in the struggle, manipulated and exploited by the rich and powerful doing most of the labor in production, and most of the bleeding in war. The captains of industry and the warmongers do very little labor and bleeding. They have the means either through their own ignorance or propaganda creation to arouse the masses to do their bidding.

This work will address the beginning of the early Roman Catholic Church, the Bible, and its influence on religious thought. Reformation influences of the Protestants as well as its effect on religion in America and the religious divisional problems it created addressed. We will address the dangers associated with religious ignorance as well as religion and political effect in modern times. We will talk about issues surrounding environmental destruction and how it relates to religious ignorance. We will discuss the issues of overpopulation, the greatest threat to human populations, and the hell of war and its historic effect on human populations. Economics and education will also be discussed.

The modern human animal and his science have spent billions on listening devices and other technology in an effort to contact what he calls intelligent life in the cosmos. So far, there is no evidence of life, as we know it out there. It is beyond comprehension to describe how stupid and arrogant human life has been. True intelligence here on our planet is rare indeed. Man is well on the way in destroying this beautiful ball called earth that we live on, and even yet, he is searching for another planet to plunder as if destruction here is not enough to satisfy his ignorant and greedy appetite. If the science community can be called intelligent, or the business community, or the religious community, or the political community, then I hope to God that life of like intelligence is never found.

This work will attempt to break through the pretenses, the hypocrisies, the myths, the lies, and point out what a human really is versus what he thinks that he is. There is not doubt that humans are animals. The human has acted like an animal in the past, is acting like one in the present, and will always act like one unless he can recognize that he is one, and chooses to be different. Only through his religion is there hope for his future. Old, ignorant religion of the past will not suffice.

There is need of new religion. Credit for providing some historical comment is given to the Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia.

Copyright 1953 by Columbia Viking Press and published in October 1953 by the Viking Press Inc.

II

PURPOSE

There is only one constant in an evolving, dynamic universe and that is change.

1. Human Hypocrisy and Associated Ignorance

Hypocrisy is defined as feigning or pretending to be what one is not. Ignorant is defined as lacking knowledge or an unawareness. The human animal is the only animal species capable of the above-described characteristics. The human possesses an amazing ability to exercise imagination. The humans imaginative powers allows him or her the ability to project his future in his religion, create satisfying spiritual mythology, develop a sense of status among fellow humans, evaluate his or her worthiness, and accept role playing as being the real measure of his life.

As you continue to read this book, I wish to suggest an awareness of the following statement. The only real experience in your life is experienced in the now. The past is merely a memory and the future is pure imagination. Too often we are enslaved by thoughts of the past or fear of the future.

My purpose is to expose the human to think what he or she really is versus what he or she thinks they are. It is time to look at the truth based on fact and expose the hypocrisy of humanity. I hope to teach young people who have limited life experience to understand human hypocrisy. The true motive of most human activity is self-serving in one form or the other, and that the riddle of successful living is not usually proclaimed in the conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom definition is: what is proper, what most think, what is, by the majority, is true, etc. What do you want? That’s a wise statement when uttered by the informed person.

2. Consumptive Materialism

It is time to recognize that the present economic course of consumptive materialism practiced in the modern world is not sustainable in the long run. Life sustaining resources are being consumed at an alarming rate. The environment is being poisoned in the name of progress. It is time to recognize that the human uses the same universal laws of life that all other life forms depend on for its survival. It is time to reject the mythology that the creator of all life endows the human animal as the master of the planet and that the planet was created strictly for human exploitation. Our planet has finite life sustaining resources. Supernatural intervention will not occur and that replenishment of resources is accomplished following obedience to natural laws.

3. Religious Dogma Versus Science

I hope to illuminate the danger of religious conflict, caused by differences in dogma and the ignorance associated with religious practice as well as the evil it has generated in the past in the name of good. Religion has sought to separate us from other life forms. I think that it is time to recognize that we as humans are not separate from other life forms, but are merely a part of creation with a superior brain. The creator of all life gave us a brain not only superior in making good choices, but also superior in making bad choices. It is time to recognize that the conflict between science and religion is ignorance versus ignorance. Science is not omnipotent or almighty any more than religion for the best interest of human populations. I wish to suggest that religion has a very important role in human experiences, and so does science, but neither identifies with the other. Science is of facts and observation, and religion is of the spirit. They do not mixed. The spirit cannot be seen, and science doesn’t see the spirit. I hope to illuminate the human characteristics such as greed, selfishness, lust, self-righteousness, and pride as capable of destroying human civilization as we know it if not contained.

4. Human Misery and the Role of Wealth and Power

I hope to bring awareness in a small, humble way why human history has been so violent, cruel and destructive. The pursuit of wealth and power along with the competition of the pursuit is the driving force responsible for human misery. I hope to illuminate that it is wealth and power that initiates the conflict and that the common man is caught up in the struggle to do the labor in production and the bleeding in war.

5. Awareness of Human Over Population

Human population growth is the greatest danger that future populations face. The issue does not ever receive the importance that it deserves primarily because the root of the problem is embedded in religious dogma and doctrine. The religious establishment is imprisoned by the sanctity of ancient religious thought. Evangelical fundamentalist power -structures, and the catholic hierarchy among other groups oppose any effort of addressing population control. It is time to reject the idea that the philosophy of the ancient religious seers is not compatible with modern changes concerning gluttonous consumption, environmental destruction, and diminishing habitat.

6. Inspire Human Thinking to Address Modern Problems

In order to solve the many problems facing modern humanity, old social and economic power structures must be rejected and replaced with thought that is realistic for the present. Fresh thinking is necessary to address a long list of problems, which are as follows: religious ignorance, wealth distribution, climate change, environmental destruction, consumptive greed, elimination of war and peaceful coexistence. But I must emphasize that none of these problems can be solved unless there is serious thought given to a healthy and sustaining environment as well as a stable and static human population.

At least I hope that this humble work will make a contribution toward the creation of a better, safer, and healthier world to live in through understanding human behavior from a different perspective than the conventional wisdom. If one small step toward universal brotherhood and preservation of our beautiful planet is accomplished, it will be well worth the effort.

III

UNIVERSAL LAWS OF LIFE

1. False Recognition of Human Life

I don’t think any study of human experience could be relevant without understanding the universal laws upon which all life must adhere to. The human tends to separate himself from other life forms. His religion has portrayed the human animal as the only importance on the planet and that the planet was created just for him. The human religion has postulated the idea of human dominion over the planet. Creationism is a concept that the planet was created as a static condition just for the use of humans. Early religious thought was locked into the idea of monarchy rule or patriarchal theocratic totalitarianism, thus the idea of dominion. The truth is that we as humans have dominion over nothing. The only dominion in this universe is the almighty creator of the universe and his laws, which govern all of his life forms. The earth as a part of creation is not static or stationary at all. The earth is constantly changing or dynamic as is the entire universe. Life comes and life goes and it will also be true for the human life form.

If we can pause for a moment and think of ourselves as a life form among thousands of other life forms, rather than being Mr. Smith or Mrs. Jones, the following explanation might make more sense to you. We are the most intelligent life form on the planet, but we must conform to the same universal laws that govern all life or perish as a species. Supernatural intervention will not save us because we have already violated the supernatural laws of universal life. We may use our intelligence to manipulate or alter the universal laws, but we fragile humans can never eliminate their effect on our existence. The master creator of the universe enables us to make decisions for the good of us or for our destruction. Much of past human behavior destructive and evil as it may seem is the result of un-thoughtful adherence to the universal laws. The universal laws untempered by good choices are very destructive. Often, we may not recognize how the universal laws affect our experience past and present. The laws that follow, I believe are common knowledge among many studies of the social sciences, but are very seldom postulated in the prevailing literature of our time because of religious, economic, and political influence. Religious, economic, and political power structures do not or will not recognize a human as being an animal or life form. How often have you heard someone gasp after recognition of a heinous, vicious, evil crime that the perpetrator of the act was an animal? Understanding the mindset of the individual making the remark is testimony to the fact that people tend to separate humans from animals.

The truth is that all humans will act as animals under certain circumstances because we are animals. However, none in the animal kingdom can be as cruel, vicious, and evil as the human animal. We must understand that all of us are animals in order to change our destructive animal ways for a better future for humanity. The great creator does not dictate the choice, but gave us a freethinking mind to choose either good or evil. The danger to human civilization is the entrenched religious viewpoint in some quarters as