The Good, the Bad and the Bug up your Arse

Today, we find ourselves living in a world so profound, yet so wretched. We can walk on water, we can fly without wings, we can heal people, and we can build a paradise; such is the magnificence of the human genius, unparalleled and unrelenting. However, at the same time we kill each other inhumanly, we connive and conspire against each other for temporary worldly things; such less is the value of the human genius, unforgiving and ungodly.

So why do we do such things? Why do we choose to be so evil, so corrupt, and so weak in the face of power? What is the root cause of all evils? Is it money? Or is it power? Is it perhaps our failure to accept Jesus as our one true saviour?  – A question ever so clichéd, yet whose answer is ever so elusive.

Perhaps we are meant to be so. Some are good, and some are bad – the usual two sides of the coin. Maybe Satan and God are waging an epic war in the skies, and that is being reflected here on earth; well, the church would certainly like to believe so.

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Well, let’s look at this whole conundrum this way – nobody is black or white, we are all just grey. Who is to decide if someone is right or wrong? It is all a matter of perspective. While we, as humans form rules to set the rights and wrongs apart, we do so knowing that we ourselves are fallible, and full of fallacies. Walter White will definitely concur.

However, there is one thing, one common characteristic that governs the entirety of our human race, and that is the need for something more, a need for something else. Human beings are in this constant search for satisfaction, which they will never get, for the grass is well and truly, greener on the other side.

There is this proverbial bug up every human’s arse that makes him so dynamic. The pauper will direct his whole life towards the quest for wealth, but the moment he finds his treasure, he will drift away towards other new needs. That’s how life works. The beggar with his family will have no money to feed it, and the lonely billionaire will have no family to spend the money on. So we will continue our quests, never stopping, never satisfied.

Even the Rolling Stones agree.

The stone-age man had everything – a barbequed dinosaur, a scantily clothed wife, and a 3-BHK cave to dwell in. He wanted more though, he wanted to explore; so he invented the wheel. You would think that exploring the world would be enough, but no, he now wanted to rule it. So he built armies. So what if people died for his desires? It is desire that drives a man. Man now had the world on his fingers, but of course, he’s not content. He wants more. So now he destroys the forests, kills all dragons, poaches animals, and loots his own people. He then decides that while all this may be okay, the bug up his arse wants more. So he visits the moons and the planets.

Even a 5 year old kid will pester his parents for the latest toy, only to discard it after a new one comes up (Apple fan boys will relate). You see, there is no end. It is not money, or power that propels a man, but man himself, and his constant need for something more.

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Do not mistake that ‘something more’ for greed. It is not greed, but the dynamism of humans. We can’t just stay put, we have to do more! It is because man did more that we can now talk through phones which are smarter than most of us. It is because man did more that we can have unfathomable information on our palms. It is because man did more that we know about those stars which are inconceivable distances away.

Learn to love this bug.

We are humans. We create. We destroy. It is not in our nature to stop. There is no root cause of evil, for there is no good or bad, only perspective …