Homo Sapiens-Demens, "America" and the End of Times

"America" is a funny country, that is, it could be funny if it weren't so bloody tragic.

I am writing "America", because "Americans", being as they believe they are, the "umbilicus" of the world, call themselves "Americans".

We...well, we are "just" Latin-Americans...Not "true" Americans at all, but perhaps a kind of subspecies. Despite the fact that Colon arrived to what we know today as the Antillas, and Americo Vespucio, the man after whom "America" was named, was an Italian (a Latin, of course) who died in Spain.
But, we must not forget that, for Americans, history began in 1786. At least the history that is worth telling about.

The government of "America" has killed about 1.000.000 Iraqis (it may be 1.200.000) since the beginning of Bush crusade in search of those now mythical "massive destruction weapons".

"America" represents the so called "First World", and Edgar Morin called our species "Homo-Sapiens-Demens". Following his thread -which BTH I believe is very interesting indeed- "America" could the true representant of the "Sapiens" and also the "Demens" part of man.

Please, allow me these ravings, as I am just a feeble Latin-American from the "Third World" and my "Third-Worldness" may have damaged my judgment.
But I just do not understand how a people that allow his government to pursue such a war against a far away Islamic country like Iraq -meanwhile hanging to death a "Saddam Hussein"- ends electing a Barack HUSSEIN Obama...

But the chances of understanding these things may just be far away the possibilities of a poor Third-World citizen like me.

This same First-World-King-Country has a Hollywood "Inteligentzia" represented among others by Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon and Brad Pitt that is fighting for the marriage-rights of homosexuals.

I happen to be a biological-prone Third-world citizen, and although I will never do something against a man or woman on account of his/her psycho-sexual orientation, I just cannot see how marriage beween them may be seen as a natural thing -similar to a male-female relationship- from a biological point of view.
I understand quite well that my position is far from been "political correct" in these times, but I will defend my own right as a Third-world savage to think as I do.

How can a system that has brought unmitigated disaster to this still beautiful blue planet be called "First-World" is something that simply lies beyond my understanding.

The only thing that comes to my brutish Latin-American mind is that perhaps Edgar Morin is wrong after all, and his "Homo Sapiens-Demens" is just plainly "Homo Demens-Demens".

Sometimes I feel that Human Race has been placed in this planet by an Alien force for destroying the Eco-System, in order for them to come later to a place more akin to their own nature.

Some time ago I was critiziced for defining "America" as an "unscientific democracy". But, been myself a specimen from the Third-World, I just may be lacking the abilities to understand these-and so many others-things and I am confined to see them as just plain lunacy

A New Inquisition is already here

A couple of months ago I called attention to the fact that some of the foremost - self called- atheists were walking through a ver thin line: their discourse smelling too much to old scents that we know all too well.

My suspicions are coming true, day by day more.People like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are carrying on a discourse that each day resembles more what they are trying to fight against.Perhaps this is the inevitable faith of outright opposition, namely, to make you "enemy" stronger, many times transforming yourself into the same thing you hate, no matter how disguised this could be presented.

We are on the verge of a New Inquisition: the Inquisition of the all-knowing-scientists and die-hard rationalists that simply pretend to negate anything that do not match their pretentious, all-embracing Weltaunschaung.One remembers with certain nostalgia men like Alan Watts or Aldous Huxley...But all this at last comes to the same: thriving for power; to have the last word; to impose oneself over the other human being; to exert authority.

And last but not least:What the heck know Mr.Dawkins and Mr.Harris about God's existence or God's inexistence? They cannot know anything about it. Talking too much about that gives us a clue about their true state of mind...To talk against organized religion is one thing. To go beyond that is just sheer madness.