Once again we witness a jumped up ape spending $25m on helping to set up The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to help with the search for intelligent signals in the hope that this may lead to the discovery of thinking beings elsewhere in the Universe, hopefully by the year 2025. This enormous waste of money and energy is all predicated on the jumped up apes' arrogant assumption that he, and therefore by implication intelligent life, is the pinnacle of evolution and therefore there must be more of it out there somewhere. As I have said already, if there was or will be other jumped up apes in the universe sending out recognisable signals they will suffer the same fate and last no longer than us as intelligence has within it its own seeds of destruction. In universal time, even if we send out signals for a few more centuries, our announcement of our existence will be a mere blink so what are the chances of another jumped up ape's blink coinciding with ours?
Introduction
I have set up this website because, after 63 years of trying to understand, tolerate and make allowances for people, I can no longer be associated with the stupidity of the human race while it fiddles as Rome burns. Having arrived at this point I have decided to publicly state that I no longer wish to be identified as a human being as I have absolutely nothing in common with the vast majority of the species.
I hereby resign from the human race.
I must put in a health warning here and emphasise that this resignation is a purely philosophical act and I am in no way advocating that people should resign permanently by taking their lives. Although I later speak of human beings as parasites of this planet, I am in no way advocating any physical act to remove them. I’m fairly confident that nature will do this job.
The site exists for me to put forward ideas about the human race that I have not read elsewhere, and for anybody who sympathises with me to join in the debate and my resigning.
It is hard to express just how very different from humans I feel myself to be without it appearing that I might believe myself superior. But here goes.
I do not feel the need to have faith in any fantasy figures, be they gods, devils, fairies or little green men. I resent the suggestion that I lack something because of this.
I do not feel the need to associate my feelings with any village, town or nation, and simply see myself as another form of life in the biosphere we call Earth.
I do not see human beings as having any greater or lesser right to exist on this planet than any other life form.
I do not see consciousness as any sort of pinnacle in evolutionary terms. On the contrary, as you will see from my first essay, I question the assumption that consciousness is a good survival strategy at all.
Contribute to the Discourse
If you have related views and opinions, email me, Terry Parr, at terry@resign.org.uk. Send me your relevant ideas in essay form and I will add them to the site.
2 comments:
You make a fair point, but what about the idea that there is others out there, with intelligence far superior to ours? Just because we are not intelligent enough to think before we act and look after the earth that keeps us breathing, does not mean that IF there are little green men out there some where they are as ignorant as the human race. Only my point of view.
Hi there and thanks for your comment.
My point is that unless you believe in the spontaneous creation of beings with intelligence/consciousness far superior to ours then they would have had to evolve past our level of intelligence/consciousness to get there. I suggest that this doesn't happen because intelligence/consciousness at our level of evolution is clever enough to destroy its environment but not intelligent enough to prevent this destruction.
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