What do you see when you look at humanity in action?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1WBA9Xl3c
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Answer 1

This really gives us hope. I happened to see the video you posted in response to a question, wherein a lady is tending her infant child with her feet...Incredible feat, that!!! For some moments, in close-up shots, I totally forgot those weren't her hands. She did things so neatly, so adeptly. I really bowed my head in reverence to her indomitable spirit.

And now I feel like bowing my head in deference to all those good scientists striving to achieve the seemingly impossible for the unfortunate humans...May they thrive and succeed in their endeavours!!!.

Thank you once again for the incredible experience....

Answer 2

Good answer from Third P.
To rephrase a quote from Oscar Wilde, humanity is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. The Greeks thought that people were half demonic and half angelic, and this has a certain ring of truth to it. People are capable of the most extraordinary things, both in a good sense and in a bad sense. No other animals, for instance, have the ability to care for the sick and elderly. I think dogs probably would do this if they could, but they can't. No other animal can play a guitar, sculpt marble, write, compose operas, do the fantastic maneuvers gymnasts can do, run for as far as a fit human can (except for the canines), endure starvation for such a long time, invent algebra, and so on. I think people are the most interesting show in town.

Answer 3

What we see outside isn't inevitably continuously Our interior's projection. movements carry consequences as they make human beings be customary and remembered. movements makes a guy and that is through each and every of the alternative we make. in spite of the actuality that determination we make, makes human beings outline us. as an party when we are harm, its no longer needed that we take the alternative of hurting others. we are able to chosen no longer to attempt this. Even listening is a call, we listen human beings and back no longer listen or imagine it over. If we did so, the international would were some distance more advantageous position to have information with each and every others for people.

Answer 4

When we survey our lives and endeavors, we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires is bound up with the existence of other human beings. A man's value to the community is primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts and actions are directed toward promoting the good of his fellows. Therefore when i look upon at humanity in action i see the truth of life. That service to humanity is the best work of life.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 5

I think what I see, more and more these days, is about six and a half billion monkeys, myself included, randomly banging away on typewriters in the vain hopes that *somebody* will cough up some Shakespeare. -_-

To clarify: Most of human history, and especially a lot of what passes for policy in the Developed World (including the United States here, humor me please) today is about a *LOT* of Sacrifice for the Tiniest Bit of Progress possible.

We can't be happy when Galileo figures out that the world is "rounded", oh no, the Church and the society it controlled *back then* had to imprison him, kill Copernicus too, and basically crush the life out of everyone *leading to* Columbus before accepting that the Earth Was Not Flat. And what was the price paid for that again?

Oh yeah, some 600 years of European colonists butchering, enslaving, and just plain torturing the Native humans of a *whole planetary hemisphere*, just because they didn't have Guns and Crosses. Seriously, in 1492, Gold from the "New World" was the Big Oil of its day. But I digress....

My Point is...we seem to be all about the sacrifice, so willing to fight each other, wage wars, kill and maim and torment people *all the way down* to little kids and babies, and yet...for all that, we make so shockingly little progress on *any issue* not related to Violence itself, that it's disturbing.

Consider that, during the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s, early 1800s, that we discovered *mass production*...for *firearms first*. And it would take nearly a whole *century* after that, including a major Civil War, multiple and manifold minor wars in Europe and the States, before someone, *anyone* figured out a peacetime application for mass production on an assembly line that the Companies deemed "profitable enough" to carry out.

And that our progress on nuclear science follows much the same curve. We have the bombs, almost to a ridiculous surplus, but when do we get the safe peacetime uses? Versus the poorly-thought-out ones that erupt into horrorshows like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

It really looks like we *excel* at hurting, maiming, and killing each other, and then, maybe *making money* is a close second. Everything else is more like tenth, twentieth, thirtieth place (that's 10th, 20th, and 30th, just to be clear).

So yeah. Lots of monkeys, looking for a bit of verse. Lots of horror, bloodshed, misery, sacrifice, and outright abuse, just to get the Elites, the One Percenters, the Power Mongers at the Top, to *give a little damned bit* and allow some Progress for the rest of us human beings.

Consider the modern yoke. The ones that horses and oxen use, whenever machines haven't replaced them. How long did it take for us to just get *that*, as opposed to a leash-yoke around the neck that choked any beast of burden that pulled too hard?

The Egyptians didn't have it. Neither did the ancient Greeks, Babylonians, Romans, Hindus or Chinese.

It took until nearly the *tail end* of the European Middle Ages, well past the reign of Charlemagne, before people figured out that you *could* tether a yoke to an animal's shoulders, instead of its neck, and get more work out of her with less cruelty.

That seems to be the Big Issue regarding human endeavors. Finding ways to get *more work* out of us, with *less cruelty*, not more. Some folks call it Better Productivity...others call it Progress....others still call it Labor Rights. Either way....why have all the monkeys banging on manual typewriters to get to the Shakespeare, when using merely *one billion* of them banging on Microsoft Word gets the same work done?

Why? Because then, the cruelty for the rest *goes up* as they are abandoned and left without a way to *live*. See what I mean? More productivity is good, but only if we find a way to still have meaningful work for *everyone* so that we don't *waste anyone*, like we do now.

I don't know what the answer to this is, ok? All I know is that we as a species are *terribly* inefficient when you compare the suffering we go through to the progress we make. And that, also, with every increase in that efficiency, there's *less* meaningful work to go around, more wealth concentrated at the top, as more and more of us get *shut out* of the process, *shut out* of society, *shut out* of being able to make a living and be self-sufficient.

And this is really sad, ok? Because we are NOT monkeys, we're people, we should be *better* than this already. Why?

Because we already *have* the damned Shakespeare.

Thanks for your time....good question. ^_^

Answer 6

When I look at humanity (of which I am mindful that I am also a member), I see a disparate school yard.... it's players all in varying stages of sleep and wakefulness.

Some are busy whispering in the corner and casting conspiratorial glances at others.
Some are huddled in groups passing around candies and gorging on sweets.
Some are playing and laughing.
Some are taunting others.
Some are overtly bullying others.
Some are building snowmen or sand castles.
Some are running by as they swipe someone's lunch box.
Some are off in a corner with perhaps a friend or two, talking.
Some are gathered in a circle as one is the centre of focus, as the onlookers ogle the one displaying the latest toy or gadget.

Now send in a kitten or a puppy and let's see how the schoolyard responds. How will we see humanity now?

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You present a video of Man and monkey and a robotic arm which reacts to thought, and inquire what we see when we look at humanity. hmmmmm.

This is what I am seeing right now:

There are a lot of shams and falsehoods in this world all of which are man-made, our unreasonable facsimiles of nature. We remain as (grown?) children in a schoolyard, now enter the kitten or the puppy. Our curiousity is both our wand and our weapon as we investigate it - a messenger of Nature - and perhaps play God with it. Is the kitten or the puppy safe with our curiousity? Is the monkey with our manufactured robotic arm safe?

Far too many of us buy plastic goods with plastic money as we feed ourselves with plastic food and play with plastic toys while chasing plastic bubbles. We are the robots in our own "B" sci-fi flick as we manufacture more plastic things to interact with nature.... and in our global schoolyard, we can use our curiousity as either wands or weapons.

We can rise to our goodness or succumb to our evil - it's as simple as this.

Answer 7

I told you before:
Brains in the 'vat' are computerized the whole system of logic without any emotions, while human beings are emotional one who makes the world 'logic'. It's the western perspective/purpose culture. Wow, I'm going to crack up at this rate!

Answer 8

I see the good, bad, and the ugly. I concentrate, however, on the good - forever the optimist.

Answer 9

Some clarity, mostly lemminglike behavior.

Answer 10

I see the beauty, strength, love; I see the horrific, ugly, poison; I see hope and compassion . . . . . . our universe.