The Human Condition
Posted: February 24th, 2005, 12:17 am
Like the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings need food, shelter, and sleep to survive. So these needs are not specific characteristics of the human condition.
But unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings need clothing. This is part of the human condition. Why? Because it would be pretty disgusting to watch a buncha naked flabby people walking around this place! Imagine all the rolls of fat and hairy butts we'd have to look at! So, as humans, we want to be respected plus not get sick on our stomachs every time we gotta ride the subway, so we do the wise thing and cover ourselves up with fabrics. Some cover themselves up more than others, some with more expensive fabrics with somebody else's name scribbled on them, but still, for the most part, the covering up is a protection of our most vital organs and it also helps keep us warm in cold weather and keeps us under cover from eggs which might be thrown at us 'cause somebody thinks we're ugly or sumpin.'
Also, unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings like to do the wild thing not just so our human gals get in a family way and 9 months later present us with a little rug rat on a leash that needs to be cut by another human being who has paid beaucoups bucks for the privilege. No. We are human and our condition dictates our need for arousal and sensual stimulation, not like the rest of the animal kingdom who are perfectly satisfied to reproduce themselves without any gratification at all. Our human condition also makes some members of our race gallavant from one such escapade to the next, apparently because the grass is supposedly greener on the other side of the fence. Animals do this, too, of course, but they don't seem to get upset about it like humans do.
In addition to that, human beings cry a lot. This is part of the human condition. We are human and so our tears are not like the tears of the rest of the animal kingdom, meant only cleanse the lens. No. Our tears are a result of the human condition itself which manifests itself in something we call emotions. Our tears cleanse the spirit. We cry when we're angry, we cry when we're sad, we cry when someone calls us names, we cry when people ignore us, we cry when we're happy and joyful, and we cry when someone makes fun of us. No wait! That's just me. Never mind.
The human condition also is different than the condition of the animals in the animal kingdom in that we don't hunt and kill for our meals, we just hunt and kill because we hate other people or we think they hate us and want to kill them before they kill us first. These types of actions, during the latest stage of evolution, have been carefully entitled "pre-emptive strikes," by those who want to make us believe that we can't help but continue killing other human beings because they have designated themselves as some type of analysts of the human condition who have powers which exceed the human condition and are supposedly god-like.
This brings me to jealousy. Unlike the other animals in the animal kingdom, human beings get jealous of how much another human being has and where they live and who they live with and the fact that they have more stuff like money or jewels or oil or power than they do. So, the human condition makes human people act in crazy ways, like when someone is driving a brand new Mercedes too slowly in the passing lane and the human who is trying to pass in his 1985 Ford Taurus decides to run him off the road and flip him the bird. Human beings have been known to call this "road rage," but really it's just plain old jealousy.
But it's also anger which is part of the human condition. Humans get angry when somebody calls them names or ignores them or treats them with disrespect or yells at them and they also get angry when someone gets angry at them. No wait. That might be just me.
Anger is a major part of the human condition because the other animals in the animal kingdom don't get angry, but they do act similarly when trying to survive sometimes, but not because they're angry. A lion, for instance, might run a leopard off of his territory because the leopard is trying to hit on his lioness, but not because the leopard is driving a Mercedes too slowly in the passing lane and the lion is driving a 1985 Ford Taurus trying to pass. But it's not about jealousy with the lion, it's about territory.
Come to think of it, it's about territory with humans, too, which is why the human condition these days, due to some evolutionary advances, has decided it's OK to try to take the land of other human beings and occupy it and call all the other human beings that live there enemies. A simlar thing happened back during the days a bunch of white skinned human beings took the land of a bunch of red skinned human beings and now the red skinned human beings all live on what's called reservations and the white-skinned human beings buy their handmade pottery and beadwork. But that was way before the human condition had evolved to the stage that it is now, where humans want everybody on the earth to be free and one particular set of human beings have decided to free the world by stockpiling a bunch of weapons which could blow the planet to smithereens and attacking anybody else who has the same kind of weapons.
And then there are the human beings who also have the same human condition who think that the god they believe in is better than any other god and just like the human beings with the weapons who can blow up the planet into smithereens who believe the same thing about the god they believe in, these human beings strap bombs to their backs and also steer planes into big buildings, all in the name of their god who they think is ruling their human condition and forcing them to do these things so they can die and live in paradise with a bunch of sexy virgins who will do the wild thing with them at their every whim while they feed them peeled grapes and listen to ancient classical lute music.
Which reminds me of another thing! The human condition also includes being able to create stuff, not only weapons which can blow the planet up to smithereens, but stuff like music and poetry and literature and movies that depict the human condition. This is the good part, if you couldn't tell. And they also can create something called love, which I don't think the other animals in the animal kingdom can do very well, except, of course, my long-haired black cat named Wink who likes to sit on my lap and purr when I pet him behind the ears.
That's all I know about it.
But unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings need clothing. This is part of the human condition. Why? Because it would be pretty disgusting to watch a buncha naked flabby people walking around this place! Imagine all the rolls of fat and hairy butts we'd have to look at! So, as humans, we want to be respected plus not get sick on our stomachs every time we gotta ride the subway, so we do the wise thing and cover ourselves up with fabrics. Some cover themselves up more than others, some with more expensive fabrics with somebody else's name scribbled on them, but still, for the most part, the covering up is a protection of our most vital organs and it also helps keep us warm in cold weather and keeps us under cover from eggs which might be thrown at us 'cause somebody thinks we're ugly or sumpin.'
Also, unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings like to do the wild thing not just so our human gals get in a family way and 9 months later present us with a little rug rat on a leash that needs to be cut by another human being who has paid beaucoups bucks for the privilege. No. We are human and our condition dictates our need for arousal and sensual stimulation, not like the rest of the animal kingdom who are perfectly satisfied to reproduce themselves without any gratification at all. Our human condition also makes some members of our race gallavant from one such escapade to the next, apparently because the grass is supposedly greener on the other side of the fence. Animals do this, too, of course, but they don't seem to get upset about it like humans do.
In addition to that, human beings cry a lot. This is part of the human condition. We are human and so our tears are not like the tears of the rest of the animal kingdom, meant only cleanse the lens. No. Our tears are a result of the human condition itself which manifests itself in something we call emotions. Our tears cleanse the spirit. We cry when we're angry, we cry when we're sad, we cry when someone calls us names, we cry when people ignore us, we cry when we're happy and joyful, and we cry when someone makes fun of us. No wait! That's just me. Never mind.
The human condition also is different than the condition of the animals in the animal kingdom in that we don't hunt and kill for our meals, we just hunt and kill because we hate other people or we think they hate us and want to kill them before they kill us first. These types of actions, during the latest stage of evolution, have been carefully entitled "pre-emptive strikes," by those who want to make us believe that we can't help but continue killing other human beings because they have designated themselves as some type of analysts of the human condition who have powers which exceed the human condition and are supposedly god-like.
This brings me to jealousy. Unlike the other animals in the animal kingdom, human beings get jealous of how much another human being has and where they live and who they live with and the fact that they have more stuff like money or jewels or oil or power than they do. So, the human condition makes human people act in crazy ways, like when someone is driving a brand new Mercedes too slowly in the passing lane and the human who is trying to pass in his 1985 Ford Taurus decides to run him off the road and flip him the bird. Human beings have been known to call this "road rage," but really it's just plain old jealousy.
But it's also anger which is part of the human condition. Humans get angry when somebody calls them names or ignores them or treats them with disrespect or yells at them and they also get angry when someone gets angry at them. No wait. That might be just me.
Anger is a major part of the human condition because the other animals in the animal kingdom don't get angry, but they do act similarly when trying to survive sometimes, but not because they're angry. A lion, for instance, might run a leopard off of his territory because the leopard is trying to hit on his lioness, but not because the leopard is driving a Mercedes too slowly in the passing lane and the lion is driving a 1985 Ford Taurus trying to pass. But it's not about jealousy with the lion, it's about territory.
Come to think of it, it's about territory with humans, too, which is why the human condition these days, due to some evolutionary advances, has decided it's OK to try to take the land of other human beings and occupy it and call all the other human beings that live there enemies. A simlar thing happened back during the days a bunch of white skinned human beings took the land of a bunch of red skinned human beings and now the red skinned human beings all live on what's called reservations and the white-skinned human beings buy their handmade pottery and beadwork. But that was way before the human condition had evolved to the stage that it is now, where humans want everybody on the earth to be free and one particular set of human beings have decided to free the world by stockpiling a bunch of weapons which could blow the planet to smithereens and attacking anybody else who has the same kind of weapons.
And then there are the human beings who also have the same human condition who think that the god they believe in is better than any other god and just like the human beings with the weapons who can blow up the planet into smithereens who believe the same thing about the god they believe in, these human beings strap bombs to their backs and also steer planes into big buildings, all in the name of their god who they think is ruling their human condition and forcing them to do these things so they can die and live in paradise with a bunch of sexy virgins who will do the wild thing with them at their every whim while they feed them peeled grapes and listen to ancient classical lute music.
Which reminds me of another thing! The human condition also includes being able to create stuff, not only weapons which can blow the planet up to smithereens, but stuff like music and poetry and literature and movies that depict the human condition. This is the good part, if you couldn't tell. And they also can create something called love, which I don't think the other animals in the animal kingdom can do very well, except, of course, my long-haired black cat named Wink who likes to sit on my lap and purr when I pet him behind the ears.
That's all I know about it.