Could you please explain everything in the entire world to me?

[Bradley P]

Only the world? As in, only this planet, that we call Earth?

That's actually easier than it sounds.

Basically we, as life, are a blink of an eye in the long history of life itself. In the blink of an eye we humans have grown from a few thousand struggling to hunt food to over seven BILLION dominating the whole world, at its expense.

And for all that, we're a blink of an eye. We're bacteria on the surface of a speck of dust, just relative to our solar system, and even less than that on the surface of a single atom relative to our whole galaxy. Don't even get me started on the whole visible universe.

In the grand scheme of things, we're trivial. Until we're not, because we're life, we're alive and we've drawn near to being intelligent. This is where it gets real.

We only THINK we have intelligence. We only THINK we solve problems when most of the time, most of us live to USE and exploit problems at some level.

We still have global warming, still have nuclear weapons, still have religious extremism, still let crony capitalism abuse us way too often. We still have kingdoms and theocracies where women are treated as far LESS than human beings. We are still at the mercy of disease. We are still at the mercy of money, petroleum, and the Mass Media.

We only THINK we have intelligence, because we THINK but don't back it up by doing things that solve problems. This is on average by the way--on the level of nations, not individuals. As individuals we can be brilliant people, but in groups we are as weak as the weakest link and as stupid as the dumbest link.

We think we have it in us to destroy the world--when the truth is, the world will do just fine without us and will carry on and support _some sort_ of life long after we've gone. No matter what we do. Biology will prevail. Physics will prevail. Chemistry will prevail. We haven't changed one bit of that. We can't even get psychology and/or economics to budge--and those are the "soft" sciences, lacking in hard, mathematical proof outside of what's statistically _probably likely_.

What we are, in truth.....are a barely social, barely competent bunch of near-naked, hairless upright apes who mostly don't know what we're doing and do it passably well in spite of ourselves. We are aces at tool use, but our infatuation with our toys is going to lead to warfare and/or anarchy again sometime soon, count on it. That'll happen because on average, we hate each other and hate ourselves for it.