WE ARE ALL MEATY ROBOTS AND THAT’S PRETTY NEAT

 

I take IB Biology at a Higher level, it’s currently one of my favourite classes. I find IB biology pretty cool because of its concentration on the microscopic and molecular side of biology and life (I’m a bit biased because I want to take molecular biology as my college major) but in short, looking at life from a molecular standpoint really gives one a different angle to look at things.

One thing that’s pretty interesting, you notice when you look at life from a microscopic point of view is how similar all humans are. Humans at the molecular level seem to do pretty much the same things, all humans translate genetic material to proteins, all humans burn food to produce energy, all humans have a nervous system that relays messages using electric pulses, and there are so many more examples I choose to leave out. All humans have almost the same machinery and our bodies mostly do the same things. We are all meaty, fleshy robots that pretty much do the same thing.

So it’s pretty disappointing to notice how humans are so oblivious of the similarities they have with other men and tend to focus on the minute differences they have. We all know this, we all tend to do this, even I am no exception to this. It’s disgusting and honestly backwards that men tend to focus on skin colour, sex and culture to make judgements (usually bad ones) about other people.

It’s even worse when you realise that billions of men have been killed, tortured and discriminated against because of these small differences. It’s surprising we still haven’t acknowledged we are all just fleshy automatons who have the same blueprint. When Nazi Germany put millions of Jews in concentration camps, they were just subjecting their fellow fleshy robots to torture. There wasn’t that much of a difference between the tortured Jews and the Nazis, they both used oxygen for cellular respiration, both synthesized proteins to sustain and repair their bodies, both had iron in the haemoglobin in their blood and they all shared about 99% of the genetic code but what they could acknowledge was their difference in ethnicity, pretty sad, isn't it?.

You might think things have changed, Scientists are uncovering more and more secrets of the human body and humans are finally understanding that we are all the same but NOPE, things in 2023 are almost the same as they were in 2500 BC. Humans still focus on their differences in race, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity and culture. One might argue we focus on these differences because that’s how we’ve been programmed. I agree but don’t you think as humans continue to develop and progress we should tweak some parts of the code if tweaking the code brings a greater good?

I can’t wait for the day when all humans recognise that they are more alike than different from one another, a time when we acknowledge the beauty of our differences, we acknowledge how even though we have the same evolutionary blueprint we are all so diverse, varied and beautiful. It actually gets madder when you realise from an evolutionary standpoint that all life came from the same common ancestors and that we humans are connected to other forms of life from our pet dogs to the trees at the park to the phytoplankton in the oceans.

Everything that surrounds mankind is connected and shares a lot of similarities with mankind. Even the soil we walk on, the air we breathe in and the water we drink have a shared history with us. To quote Neil deGrasse Tyson;

“We are not figuratively but literally stardust”

Every individual atom in your body, every atom on this planet actually, traces its origins to exploding stars and gas clouds in space. We share the same lineage as the iron in the earth’s core, the cobalt in the Chinese-owned mines in the Congo and the waters in our seas. Everything on earth is our brother and sister but we do not treat the earth as if it is our sibling.

Humans tend to concentrate on the differences we have with other things but in reality, we are so similar with a lot of things that surround us. We are not only 99% similar to other fleshy humans but we share a universal genetic code with all of the other life forms on Earth and we also have a connected past with the air, land and sea. We are all the same, brothers and sisters in a galactic joyride and I think we should acknowledge this and start acting like it.

CODA

Hello dear readers,

It's been a whole 5 months since I last wrote on this blog. I've been quite occupied by school and the other "teenage" things. In those 5 months of silence, I read Neil deGrasse Tyson's book "Starry Messenger", I love the book so much and the message it has. The book might have been criticised as leftist propaganda but Neil has a universal message in the book, "We are all the same, all brothers and sisters in this grand universe". 2023 has already been action-packed with lots of events and the world feels so split right now, I believe the human race should reflect as a species and remember that we are all the same, we are all men and women, we all dream and love and smile and etc.

My blog post might sound like a naive, childish dream but I think it's the only way forward as a species. We have to develop a sort of universal empathy as a species, we need to understand we are one with the universe, the earth, nature and ourselves and we should treat all these things like family.

I hope you enjoyed my hipster-like blog post and It'll be lovely to see your views in the comment section below.

I've also been writing poetry on my other blog, you can give it a glance. It's appreciated.

Poetry blog- orchestralhit05.blogspot.com

Wishing you all a great May Day and a great existence.

Til next time I write