Journal Entry 4079

These humans are interesting to study. Lions are lions, and they basically do lion things all day. A great white shark is a great white shark, no matter if it's off the coast of Australia or swimming off the Mexico shoreline. Humans are animals, this is to be clear, yet their mental capabilities are in constant war with their more animalistic feelings, so there is a near infinite possibility for examination.

Their behaviors are strikingly animalistic. You touch them with a hot coal, they cry out like a rabbit caught in a trap. You hurt one of their children, they growl like a lion. You tickle their toes, they laugh like a chimpanzee.

Yet humans are also very logical, capable of the most astounding leaps in intellectual thought. It took our scientists many millennia of thought to come up with the theory of relativity, yet a poor German patent clerk named Einstein came up with it in his 27th year on Earth. A young genius wrote incredible symphonies without hearing what they sounded like due to his deafness. A writer named Shakespeare would shame our sociologists, psychologists, and historians with his intricate plotting and understandings of human nature.

Yet their daily actions walk a fine line between animalistic and humanistic. If you hold a ray gun to a human, they'll tell you anything you want to know. You could get an armless man to play the piano. You could get a French speaker to speak Chinese. An atheist could cite you scripture.

Yet, if you shoot that same ray gun next to their left ear, they react as though they were in the wild. They jump as any other animal would jump under life and death circumstances. The hairs on their bodies stand on edge, just like a cat's does when it's in danger. Sometimes they run like a dog with its tail between its legs. But sometimes, maybe more than sometimes, these humans don't run. No, instead of running, they fight.

And if there is one thing these humans have perfected, it's the art of fighting. It would take our best brains hundreds of thousands of our years to come up with the numerous ways in which humans kill one another.

But since humans are basically nothing more than animals, all of their instruments of death are based on the laws of the animal world.

I almost find it hard to believe myself, but the poorest of the earth use the earth itself as a weapon. So a young Palestinian boy throws a rock at an Israeli soldier. The Israeli soldier shoots the bullets out of his weapon, made from the steel, made from carbon which was taken from the earth. A team of US soldiers patrols the hills of Iwo Jima with assault rifles and flamethrowers. Just like the snake uses venom to burn and kill its prey, humans use fire, which they had been harnessing for many thousands of years, to murder other human beings in caves. And since bullets and flamethrowers can only travel so far, those who can afford the materials and those who can expertly construct the necessary devices, create weapons which can lob bombs and other explosives at unforeseen enemies, just like the pack of mountain wolves hunting a herd of bison on the plains.

But those who have the technology are the true lions of jungle. Just like the lion sits on a rock high above the land, humans use the laws of aeronautics to sit high above their prey, waiting for their opportunities to pounce.

The earth below is beautiful and vibrant, with little white clouds floating what appears to be inches from the ground. As I examined the earth from above, I came to the realization that the bombardier is the closest to being a god that a human will ever be. The bombardier looks through his viewfinder at the earth below. When a bombardier looks through his viewfinder, looking for targets to hit on the earth below, does he get the same feeling of bigness that the Christian God had Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed? Does a bombardier feel the weight of the plane shifting more than his crewmates, knowing that his orders killed hundreds, maybe thousands of other living creatures? I wondered all of this as I looked through my viewfinder at the earth passing below.

I have to say this, but just thinking about these dark matters has caused great stress amongst our crew. I know firsthand, that such ponderings have led me to a better understanding of myself. I am writing this journal in a spaceship more technologically advanced than anything humans have been able to create or imagine, and it suddenly dawns on me that if thoughts of domination, subjugation, xenophobia, and genocide were capable in our species' mind, it would not take much effort to take over Earth. It would be quite simple actually. I plan on using this topic as my thesis which all of our people will read. I am convinced that every creature on our planet would benefit from knowing this information.

I will write more tomorrow morning.

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