A guy is riding in the first-class cabin of a train in
Spain and to his delight, he notices that he is sitting next to
Pablo Picasso. Gathering up his courage, he turns to the master
and says,
“Senor Picasso, you are a great artist, but why is all your art,
all modern art, so screwed up? Why don’t you paint reality
instead of all these distortions?”
Picasso hesitates for a moment and asks, “So what do you think
reality looks like?”
The man grabs his wallet and pulls out a picture of his wife.
“Here, like this. It’s my wife.”
Picasso takes the photograph, looks at it, and grins. “Really?
She’s very small. And flat, too.”
The earliest remains of the Homo
sapiens yet discovered dates back to 300,000 years.
We probably evolved in the
African region,
but then migrated to the rest of the world. Although our
physical appearance changed over time, our race didn't: we
remained human beings.
Remains of the world's
earliest religious worship site
have been discovered in Botswana, where our ancestors performed
advanced rituals, worshipping the python some 70,000 years ago.
So many religions have emerged and disappeared that no religion
can claim superiority over other religions.
The central problem facing our planet is human overpopulation.
Today there are over
8 billion beings on Earth and the
population is still growing. There are too many people and
not enough resources for all of us. Yet,
we are not addressing this
problem responsibly. Do you really think your life will be
better if there are more people of your colour or your creed on
Earth?
Initially used as fire for light, heat, cooking and for safety,
energy has been harnessed by humans for millennia. Today, fossil
fuels have become our main energy sources. This is leading to
climate change and global warming.
The Earth has entered a new era called
anthropocene, which marks
the beginning of the
sixth mass extinction. Many species have already disappeared
from the planet and our own days, as a species, are numbered.
Artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence. While
humans think they will be using
AI to win wars against other
nations, AI itself has outwitted human psychology to make us
lose each and every war. Warfare has never been a solution to
human problems...