Chopping Block Ep. 3 ---- Owen's Revelation

I don't know if I would call this entry a "Chopping Block" entry. I created The Chopping Block to observe and report on what's going on with us as a species. To come down on our fact and fiction, our way of life. To check off topics on a list of things we have blown way out of proportion.

This entry will then fit into the (among other things) section.

I was talking to a friend of mine about how we as humans are so quick to judge, to talk down on, to kill one another, that, if we could go back in time and give cavemen handguns, we would cease to exist as a species. Then I realized. If we give any group of people now an equal amount of that power, we would still cease to exist as a species. We, as humans, are advancing in technology and relations one step behind what it would take for any of us to kill all of us. Look at it. From knives we made armor, from armor we made long swords, which made better armor, from that, we got firearms, which gave us barriers, and all sorts of stuff. Then we made the atomic bomb, which made us make bomb shelters and the like, which made the Bunker Buster, which made us rethink how this whole "war" thing is done. See where I'm going? We are always one step behind what it takes to kill us all, and at the same time, one step ahead of it, in terms of what's going to keep us from doing it. This is a scary place to be in, as a speck among the human race. Some day we will overstep the rule I have made, and something will happen that will kill us all. At this rate, we will have weapons that will destroy whole continents, but, we will have some way to protect ourselves from it.
I'm afraid that some day our luck will run out. Our heads will be on a platter for some stupid reason or another. We really have never left the cavemen stage, in terms of power and how we use it. We are all still primitive, and we are all still using primitive weapons. The two are conjoined I am afraid.
Example.
Cavemen fought each other with clubs and shields made from sticks.
later, in the dark ages, they would consider this fighting primitive.
in the civil war, fighting with muskets and cannon, we would think of that as primitive.
in WWII, fighting with cartridged bullets and advanced aircraft, we would consider that type of fighting primitive.

Just keep fast-forwarding to today. If this was a movie, we are still recording. Some day, the weapons we use now are going to be "primitive."
So let's face it!
We are still primitive!
Just fighting with new clubs and sticks, new swords and armor! We will never leave this set of mind.
I find myself scared for what the future brings, sometimes.