Ruthlessness and Human Survival

For some reason I woke up this morning thinking about ruthlessness in relation to human survival on earth.

Ruthlessness is usually more dependent on what is going on in one's life than anything else. It is a reaction usually to the conditions around whatever people are experiencing in their lives. The ruthlessness might be necessary or it just might be a type of paranoia a particular culture or group of people or even what an individual is experiencing or thinking he or she is experiencing in life.

For example, a bad example of ruthlessness might be what ISIS, ISIL, Boko Haram, and Al Qaeda are doing now to the human race here on earth. And if one views their actions coming from starvation, the lack of jobs, and too much desert and not enough food or jobs or food being grown and the inability of young people to get married because they can't get a good job to buy enough food to support a family in the middle east right now it makes more sense. Because all these causes are also the real causes of Arab Spring. And ISIS, ISIL, Boko Haram I would consider to be aberrant reactions to culture changes and to the starvation and lack of jobs among their pcoples. So, their Ruthlessness and beheading everyone that thinks differently than they do of all religions including Muslim variations I might see as a psychological religious paranoia that comes from the times we live  especially in the Middle East.

So, though there actions are horrific they also are not surprising given just how bad the average person now has it in the Middle East without hope of a good future if they are under about 30 to 35 years of age right now.

However, when the level of ruthlessness reaching this proportion like it has in Syria and Iraq we are going to see whole cultures obliterated and annihilated almost completely like we are also presently seeing in Syria and to some degree in Western Iraq near the Syrian Border. And like a Cancer this sort of thing is spreading because the conditions there are ripe for it (mostly because of what Russia and Iran are doing in supporting Assad at all costs).

All this in some ways has very little to do with actions from other nations around the world (with the exception of Russia and Iran).


However, ruthlessness is also necessary for ANYONE to survive on earth at all and always has been. The Terrorist version is an aberration of something that has always been needed to survive on earth. Terrorists are mostly a product (in the middle east) of overpopulation and religion being taken in an inefficient direction which ends up in suicides directly or indirectly of young men. So, I personally can't see it in any other context at present but insanity in regard to life on earth. Though I know there will be people, (especially Muslims and others) who might disagree with me.

Now I want to talk about more about ruthlessness as a necessity for human survival historically. For example, the settlers to the U.S. from Europe came here knowing that many of them would die, especially in the 1600s and 1700s. However, their freedom from lack of enough tillable land and a lack of Freedom in Europe made them come to have their own land and to create their  own freedom here so they could survive better here and prosper better here and get married and raise their children better here.

But, it also should be realized that those who came and who survived were very tough and ruthless people. Because the rest all died from one thing or another along the way. So, I see the system of government, the almost infinite natural resources are one reason why we survived as a country. The combination of almost infinite natural resources, the right government and a lot of ruthlessness and education was how the U.S. made it in one piece to the 20th century (in other words 1900).

Around 1900 things began to change a lot on earth which also changed the U.S. in relation to the rest of the outside world. We had sort of lived a charmed life here in the U.S. compared to the rest of the world because we were separated by big oceans from most of the world. And because there weren't planes or very many steam ships yet we could evolve as a nation mostly at peace with the rest of the world after the War of 1812.

But, diesel and gasoline engines and their need for oil and gas were going to change that as the world made a technological leap forward. So, World War I was a chaotic mess of a war and a meat grinder to men typified by the slaughter of that group of British horse soldiers by German machine gun fire and other such mechanized incidents of the slaughter of men by machine guns and advanced weaponry like tanks and fighter planes and bombers which greatly changed the way wars would be fought from then on. Eventually, this technology even made Tibet Vulnerable that had never been vulnerable because of altitude (a 20,000 foot pass) from Nepal and India) and a huge desert with no water on the other side between China and Tibet and unbelievable altitudes that killed armies as well if they were walking or riding horses.

American citizens responded well to difficult situations around the world because I think we had the right amount of adversity and ruthlessness combined with a useful form of government combined with a lot of natural resources and people too far away to attack us mostly in the 1800s after the war of 1812.

But now, the world is moving into a more chaotic phase caused by overpopulation almost everywhere, and natural resources (especially clean water) is getting worse and more and more people are dying (especially in Asia, Africa and likely South America from bad water and bad food. (food that has been contaminated or GMOs that kill through allergic reactions or sterilization of humans wherever they are consumed).

So, I'm not sure what Ruthlessness is going to look like the rest of this century on earth. I think it might look like the educated nations having one form of ruthlessness and the more uneducated nations having a different form of ruthlessness. However, it is inevitable that we might have to get used to millions of people at a time (by the end of this century) dying in severe weather and war events as natural resources and jobs around the world become more and more scarce throughout this century.