No, you guessed it wrong!
I am not going to tell you about a personal experience of a
UFO sighting. The aliens will not be coming from deep outer space to ruin us,
but they will ruin the Earth and go. They are right here!
They are not humanoid in appearance; they are full-fledged humans, members of our own
species, the Homo sapiens, fulfilling all scientific criteria for
being classified as members of the human species having a set of fully
functional 44 + XX or 44 + XY chromosomes, one of the ABO, Rh+ or Rh- blood groups
and proteins fully identical to those that we have in our bodies. They will not
come from outer space to rob us and plunder the earthlings for the benefit of
the dwellers of the planet on which they were born. They were born on this very
planet and are plundering it. In a century or so, if we have to believe many of
the scientists, including none else but Stephen Hawking, their excesses would
push the globe to the sixth mass extinction, which according to the scientists
will not be anything less in severity than the previous five cataclysms that
the planet faced, and the process for which has already set in - irreversibly
-according to many of these scientists.
They are the 1% of the human population controlling 50% of
world wealth.
It is not that they are unaware of all these scientific
warnings; they are fully aware, more aware than me or you; aware but not
worried, not ready to mend heir ways. They are not worried because they have another plan in place. They plan to fly
off to some other colony in space, while the remainder of the humanity will be
left down on this planet to face the slow and painful extinction from the
effects of a heated toxic atmosphere and aquifers, and depleted ozone layer and oxygen level in the air.
And let me tell you especially for the benefit of those who
still doubt organic evolution and always put their favourite question to me “Tell
me if humans and present-day chimpanzees evolved
from something like chimps, why something else is not evolving from humans?”; that according to the overwhelming majority of
- rather all of - the mainstream biologists, there was a common ancestor
species from which two lines of progeny diverged, one finally becoming humans
and the other chimps; once again – the future prospective aliens think – two
lines will diverge from present day humans, one leaving the Earth, which I prefer
to call
Homo machiavellius, because of their high score on the Mach
scale
, and
the other that will be left down on Earth to rot, the
Homo gaius (Gaia being mythological personification of mother Earth). These two
species will be that
‘something
else’ which will evolve from
humans; provided of course, that the cataclysm does not overtake and destroy us all, much
before this dream of some, and nightmare of others materialises, as prophesied
by all the major religious scriptures! Those of you, who have studied life
sciences even up to the twelfth standard with some seriousness, must be able to
remember that for organic evolution to take place three conditions become
necessary - genetic divergence, mating barrier and the selection pressure. I am
not sure how much the personality trait Mach is influenced genetically, but
supposing that its expression is controlled to a significant degree by a set of
genes in human genome, we can easily say that the prospective aliens the progenitors
of the species
Homo machiavellius and the majority of the remaining humans are
genetically divergent as far as concentration of Mach genes is concerned in the
two populations, and perhaps that is why the high Mach about 1% of world
population, have been able to push through the surface of normal humanity a slim protuberance, almost as high as the rest, on top of the economic pyramid forming its extremely thin but elongated top, controlling 50% of economic resources on the globe. Once they fly off to
another planet as has been reportedly suggested by Stephen Hawking in an
article
Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction on
bigthink,
The
requisite mating barrier between them and the poor Earthlings will stabilise
giving them even higher concentration of Mach genes and other such traits which
will help them prosper to some future time horizon, while the earthlings will,
if at all they survive, slowly degrade to something more like a chimpanzee,
than like the present-day middle-class humans.
When I first
propounded this idea in my book
Tightening
Noose of Poverty last year it was said that I did so
at the expense of a blurred boundary between fiction and
theory but unfortunately at that time I was
completely unaware that none else but Hawking did suggest the imminent
cataclysm and that the only way for humans to survive it was to settle some independent
colonies in the space. He is reported to have said that "It will be
difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years,
let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its
eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the
basket until we have spread the load.”
What he did not say
was, who among the present day humans will be able to avail themselves of such
a luxury of survival, and which others will be doomed. Of course, that is not an aspect which might interest a theoretical
physicist but is of great concern to a socio-economist.
It has been reported that only 1% of the world
population controls 50% of the wealth today, and the other 99% is having access
to the remaining 50% only, and the gap has sharply increased in the recent past.
If we plot the wealth as percent of total global wealth on the vertical axis of a graph and the percent
world population having access to it the picture that emerges will be as under
Figure 1 50% of world wealth controlled by 1% of
population
The same picture
becomes even more striking if we see it in the form of the economic pyramid or
wealth pyramid:
Figure 2 In the middle on the top of the pyramid encircled
in red is the thin 1% population controlling 50% of the world wealth, other 99%
form the base of the pyramid
A plain inspection
of the picture is enough to tell that the portion encircled in red is an
unhealthy outgrowth sucking-in life and nutrients from the area below it, and
if this process is not halted it will result in
the death of the entire system. It is not one pyramid. It rather looks like the
pyramid of super-rich standing on the grave of humanity.
Now, reverting back
to the thought of the ominous day when some humans move out of plant Earth to
settle somewhere else, perhaps not much logic is required to prove that only
those encircled in red will have the access to the technology to travel to any
such safe destination(s) away from Earth, and will take along with them, most
of the remaining assets on this planet. The remaining humans, not encircled in
figure 2 with red, to which I and perhaps you too belong, will remain poorer
and much more helpless than ever before in an extremely dangerous environment
on Earth!
In my book
Tightening Noose of Poverty,
I
tried to explain this eventuality with the help of the following diagram.
Figure 3 Formation of Homo machiavellius and Homo
gaius
If hundred years down the line, the nightmare comes true I
will not be alive to witness it. You will also perhaps be dead before that, but
the baby that you are expecting next year or her baby will be there. So, either
ensure your ascent to the peak of the Machiavellians
or try to correct the situation before it is too late.
The decision is yours
but the time to decide is too short, much shorter than you might be thinking.
