Survival of the fittest. In the wild, the bigger, faster, stronger or just plain old
clever, will rise to the top. Dog eat dog, there is always a bigger fish, predator
becomes pray and so on. Long story short, killing is a way of life. Some call it nature
other call it the wild, one thing is sure, every living thing has evolved out of the
struggle of keeping the only thing that nobody wants to lose, life. But if u want to keep
it, some times you have to take it. Eat or be eaten. So, who wins? who is the bad guy? I
am no expert in nothing i might say, but some thinking lead to this. At the end of it all
there is no bad or good, wrong or right, innocent or evil. It is life. The start of it as
a result of a struggle to stay alive, taking lives just to have the chance to give birth
to another life, that will do just the same. So are living things evil because they kill
to keep the only life they have going for as long as possible? I don`t think we have to
consider the spirit of holding to life, a thing of judgement. Now we are here. So who are
the ones that are the bad guys? i here you say. The human being was and always be
intrigued and with the most interest to the bad, the evil, the repulsive, the raw horror
of life and no so much interest given for the good, the unique, the vulnerable, the
poetic. If this is not true, look at all the movies, the sports, where we get excited
when someone brakes something, sheds some blood or end up in flames, things known in
history from the gladiators in endless example till the present day. Making people think
that they are fighting for something. In extreme examples they really got nothing else
left, the only thing that remained was a living thing that had to survive the same
mentality of another living thing, for the entertainment of other similar living things.
But I did not answer your question. Who's the villain? I think you are starting to have an
idea. Entertainment they say. Something most living things don`t value as much. But
where there is interest for the masses, someone will rise and make some rules to favor
him, for his entertainment, surly for ensuring hes life. Getting to be better, safer,
easier. Making up fictitious rules and manipulating the other living things that have
not been present at the moment of the revelation. Now power has come with words not
kinetic energy. Even more, with words the power goes beyond, making other people think
they have to protect their life to the ultimate level from another former living thing,
in the interest of the one with the words. But what keeps some of those living things
retaliate on the one with the words? the rules made with words. That's evil.
So everybody is doing their thing, it makes words, the living follows them,
everybody is doing the part that any of them think that is the true calling of the
conservation spirit, apparently. Until one day when the word keeper was no more. Everybody
stopped, looked around, looked at each other and every one of them not knowing what is
right or wrong to do, what is against the rule and what is not. Trying not to make a so
called bad thing everybody retreated carefully to their own safe corner in the world,
some in a tree, some under a rock, some in the sea. Time passed and some of them started
to come to despair, the flame of their life slowly dimming. As the drive to survive
started kicking in, some of them started coming out of their safe haven, got out in the
open, realized that there is nothing more to lose except the one thing they could not
afford to lose. No more rules, no more words, no more values, no more made up ideas and
beliefs planted inside them. It is just one against another, living against living,
trying to overcome, to catch one more breath, to see the light once more, to have the
chance to make its life go further, making another life come to life, carrying the flame in
the days of tomorrow, all of this made possible, by taking another life, surviving.
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