From Homosapiens
To
Homo– Novus
Teymur Roshdi
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011-Teymur Roshdi
I wrote this short article after watching the classic ‘horror’ movie: ‘Invasion of the body snatchers’ version 1955.
Why they said about that ‘the nightmare that threatened the world’? Isn’t our world already a nightmare? If those giant seed ‘pods’ had extraterrestrial origin, why shouldn’t we consider them as a solution for all our ‘humankind’ troubles and problems? Why we are so afraid of losing all our destructive emotions or instincts?
The only thing which disturbed and horrified the people of that town was this fact that they found their loved ones emotionless or ‘emotionless impostors’, and nothing harmful or horrible thing happened. No violence, no crime, no fear, no tear, just an absolute peace of mind for everyone.
Is the peace of mind which disturbs us so much or just to live peacefully together?
Consider the words of this miserable poet:
“For years I’m mourning my losses,
Even before I lose my loved ones
I was mourning their future disappearance.
I cried a lot before they were gone,
I cried rivers to make my eyes blind.
But they joined the dust, the ashes,
As if they were ordinary objects,
As if they never existed,
As if I never loved them.”
What is the use of such a love? In the movie someone asked ‘what if I become unable to love?’ and the other to reply ‘in such a world we won’t need love’.
Isn’t that an idyllic or an ideal world? No tear, no fear and no suffering, wasn’t that what all the ancient mystical books promised to mankind? Living just like angels without any emotion, just in peace?
Isn’t that what Plato thought by writing his ‘Utopia’?
Homosapiens showed themselves as a failure, maybe this kind of evolution toward Homo-Novus would be a better species.
August 19– 2011