Chapter 2 - Man the most Fragile of All

Author's Note: To all those who read my 1^st chapter… Thank You! To those who haven’t read it yet… c’mon people do something useful, go strain your mind with thoughts… just for once, try and deviate your lifecycle away from the useless facebooking! On a totally different note, this chapter
fortifies my point as to why we were not evolved from apes, but we are aliens who inhabited this planet!

Go check yourself properly in the mirror (as always this is hypothetical, you don’t have to do it now, not when you spend at least an hour in front of the mirror everyday). If you check out human anatomy, you will notice that we are totally different from the animals present on this planet (I have stopped
calling it “Our Planet”  since it clearly is not ours.) Man is just the bad guest who won’t leave! When I say different in anatomy, I mean our body structure. It is the most amazing piece of engineering. We have a heart which is pumping continuously 24/7, a brain which no matter what, keeps sending out neuro-pulses, which make our body work.

The human mind is perhaps the most complex thing in the entire universe. Never has something so small, seemed so strong. It is said, that if a computer captured the entire Earth and was established, it would still be slow as compared to our brain. You will again be wondering, why I am listing out facts which you can find in any dog-eared and dusty fact-book.

Here is the reason: In this big, bad world (which we foolishly call our planet) intelligence is just not enough. You need to have something else, something different, which will make other animals stay clear of you. Something which gives us an edge, so that some other hungry animal won’t make mincemeat out of us. This is what we call a defense mechanism!

What is a defense mechanism? Defense mechanisms are unconscious psychological strategies brought into play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image. In simpler language: defense mechanisms are involuntary actions, which are triggered, when the animal feels that it is being threatened by an external force. In more simpler words (I have to stop making it so simple, but anyways) it is equivalent to something we have been learning from the 4^th standard ‘Response to Stimuli’.

That means, whenever an animal is being threatened, it will react in such a way, that the other animal should feel either scared, or at least make an effort in catching it. So, what does this have to do with us being aliens would be the first question, of the many ignorant people, who read first and think later?
It has everything to do with us being aliens. Remember I told you to go look yourself in the mirror, if you would have truly analyzed your anatomy (instead of your hairstyle) you would notice that just like the other animals are missing out on our superior brain, we are missing out on a major point.

‘An external defense mechanism’. Now, what is an external defense mechanism? It’s very simple… something that each and every animal has. (Notice I am using each and every animal, I have long foregone the idea of classifying us humans, with these animals) And when I say each and every animal, I do mean each and every.

From a dinosaur, the largest animal on earth, to the smallest ant! There is no need to explain the EDM (that’s short for external defense mechanism) for a dinosaur, but the ant is what would interest you, wouldn’t it! How come, an animal as small as an ant, have an external defense mechanism? Well are you forgetting what a bite that tiny sucker has. For a body as big as ours, and so strong (it is our ignorance which makes us call ourselves strong, but I will get to that later) we still feel the sting of an ant-bite. Now you would say, that it doesn’t matter to us it’s such a small bite. Well you would
be surprised as to how much mistaken you are.

As before, I have been strongly shouting out my point “It is not about the Shape and Size” and so does this affect on the point I am currently discussing. We consider an ant unimportant because it is so small. The magnitude itself is negligible. Is it? I think not. And why… because when we think of an ant, we think of it as a single small entity. But think carefully… if an ant had to take down a human, would it attack single-handedly. Obviously not, that is foolish bravado (again something which can only be attributed to humans). On the contrary an ant would bring a whole force… now let’s see the strong and enormous human fight that horde!

Nay impossible is what I say. We just can’t beat that. Let’s now move over from the ants. Here is a list of some common everyday animals and their EDM’s, just to give you an overview as to what we are missing

       Dog: Teeth (external)

        Cat: Paws (external)

        Cows & Bulls: Horns and not to forget, their
strong hoofs, which can crush us in a split-second (external)

        Donkeys: (Yes even donkeys have EDM) Strong legs
(external)

And it continues. If you just look at the above list, you will clearly notice, that each and every animal has at least one EDM. With which it can save itself, or use to kill (best defense is good offense). So even EDM can be used to kill and hunt. What I am trying to prove is, if we were evolved from the so-called apes, why is it that evolution forgot to give us an EDM. Or took it away from us!

Did Evolution hold a personal grudge? I don’t think so. I mean, think of the apes. They have strong body structures, teeth as hard as rocks, and hands having so much power, even a light tap is enough to fracture your skull, sending you tumbling into oblivion. And what do we have, a delicate framework,
even more embarrassing are our hands and legs, which have negligible power when compared to the apes. So when evolution took place, I can agree that we sized down, so as to look less threatening, but why rob us of our EDM.

Evolution sized us down and gave us no power to save ourselves. That is so unfair. Even if the alligators and the turtles sized down from the dinosaurs, they still have EDM’s. The alligator has razor sharp teeth, and even a slow creature like the turtle has an external hard shell.

So does that mean, us humans have no defense mechanism. On the contrary we have the best defense mechanism. Only thing is, it is internal and not external. Our brain which we are so proud about did help us survive. Because in this big, bad world nothing helped us so much than our brains (although, now as we progress it is the one causing our destruction). So what did the medulla oblongata do, so that we reverie it so much?

Well, for starters, it helped save our sorry ass from all the other animals (especially those who we call low-brained… which really means, stronger and fiercer than us). If you really strip of all the technology… all our weapons, houses, vehicles, electronics… all the inventions we did, you will understand, that when I say that this planet is not suitable for us, it really isn’t.

We have invented stuff, just to keep us alive. Animals have three basic needs: Food, Water and Shelter. But us humans, we have four: Food, Water, Shelter & Inventions. And only because of these inventions, have we managed to survive and slowly take over. I am forcing you to dwell on the invention part for so long, because I want you to understand a very major point, which helps me in saying that we didn’t evolve from the apes.

And that is, Planet Earth as it is, is not at all suitable for us. We are the creatures, who redecorated the whole place, just because we wanted it to be suitable for our lifestyle. Have you ever seen any animal destroy the planet so that it can stay happily. We cut down trees, block rivers, mow down mountains…
just because we want our lives to be comfortable (don’t worry; I am not getting all Environmentalist on you). The other animals, live on this planet in peace and harmony… yes they make prey of each other, but at least they are not destroying the planet.

Today we have to take care of every little detail about the environment … because we don’t know what might set off the chain reaction that might culminate in destroying this planet. So, it was our internal defense mechanism, which was the root of all problems. Simply said: ‘The more we advance, the more we are killing ourselves’

Before I take my leave, here is some food for thought: Have you ever tried to destroy your own home. On the contrary, you take special care of it… meanwhile if you have to stay in some unknown person’s house; you take a very cavalier approach towards it. So if we call Planet Earth our home, why are we hell-bent on destroying it! Just think about it.