Humans... petty and selfish, and therefore warlike, but also capable of great compassion, creativity, and capabilities. Are we just overclocked apes, with language and a shave, or something more? What on earth are humans racing for, what could possibly be at the finish line besides death? Perhaps we're actually racing against something. Again I think it comes back to our own mortality. Maybe pop tarts and kool aid.
We do seem to act like mutant monkeys with the technology and ability to overconsume and not the sense to see it's a bad idea.
Humanity will either have to reduce consumption or reduce our population if we don't do this voluntarily then the environment will force it on us. I think war is often caused by competition for resources and will perhaps be one of nature's method's of reducing our population.
I also think about what there might be after death...I think it is possible that time is not linear and that we might live our lives again in reverse.
I have a crazy thought.
Time could be infinite, ie my lifespan compared to the whole of time is an insignificant spec. Therefore it seems unlikely that we just happen to be at a point in time when I happen to be alive, and yet we are...apparently. Also my conciousness or mind or whatever you call it (some would say soul) is specific to my individual physical body ie if my specific body didn't exist then neither would my mind/conciousness. The existence of my phsical body is the chance result of one of millions of sperm meeting an egg (eww). If my parenets had concieved say 1 hour later then I'd never exist.
What I'm getting at is that the chances of my specific conciousness (or whatever you call it) coming into exisitence is extremely small. An extremely rare thing only usually happens if the event to cause it happens many times ie this suggests to me that there are likely alternate universes (where I don't exist). Either that or there is something about the nature of the universe, time or conciousness that means probability doesn't apply in the way I think it does.
I find it an interesting thought that in order to even exist, every one of us has had to win a game of chance where the odds are at least millions to one against (I think closer to infinite to one)!