HOW MEN CAME TO BE AS CLUELESS AS PIGS

Pigs are nice. They eat, roll around in the mud, and oink sometimes. They don’t complicate their lives. Dogs don’t, either. Nor do cows for that matter.
But men do. Men weren’t happy being furry, jumping animal and they weren’t happy living on trees. So men evolved. They showed signs of insecurities pretty early on. Maybe they was jealous of how magnificent the tiger looked, with his stripes or how interesting the zebra’s hide was, so they made themselves clothes. Then they took some caves and made them their home. Then followed civilization. You know, settling down in bunches, inventing fire, farming and all that jazz.

Pigs fight sometimes. Maybe for food, or for the muddiest, smelliest spot in the sty. Dogs often fight too- when another dog crosses over to the territory the former marked with his pee or when they may be showing off in front of a bitch. She doesn’t have to be hot. She just has to be. I haven’t seen cows fight, they are quiet things, mostly eating. Good thing they are incapable of multi-tasking, else they wouldn’t chew their food that good.
Men fight. A lot. Men just don’t fight for food or the muddiest, smelliest spot in the sty, or territory or to show-off in front of a female. See men like to complicate things. When whoever created life created life, the simple rule was this-

Quite a lot of food- slightly more mouths. Now fight.

But men had a lot of brains. So this arrangement was boring for them. They did a lot of things, the order of which I am not so sure of. They cut down a lot of trees. So animals died. They also killed animals because there were a lot of guns lying around, and there was a lot of time with very little to do. Then there was sex. A hell lot of it. So there were a hell lot of babies.
There was also a new arrangement, whereby things weren’t yours anymore. Men started paying for it, first with other goods, and then with money. Food was also to be bought with this money. And you earned money by first slogging your ass off for a good degree, and then to find a good job, where the slogging-you-ass-off routine was repeated pretty much till the mortal forever.
This whole fiasco resulted in a new rule, which was like this-

Men fight FOR a job to earn money. They fight IN their jobs to earn money. They fight AT HOME with their parents and siblings and sometimes WITH their PARTNERS to earn money. Then they buy food and a lot of other things. Those who can’t earn and buy food fight, steal, kill or die of hunger. Now this was something worthy of men.
The rules for other animals are different. There are two types of countries. Developed countries and developing countries. The difference between the two is NOT the extent to which you can slog your ass off but the amount of money you can earn consequently. But anyways, if you are a pig in a poor country, you can splash around in really dirty drains and roam around freely with your piglets. If you are a pig in a rich country, you will live in a farm. You will be fed with really good food, and men will be your god, who will decide when and where you are to be transported to your next life, where you are called bacon. The rules for dogs are different, as are those for cows. Basically the rule is that if you are not men you shut up and watch. Believe it or not, a lot of men do this too, especially the ones who are called leaders.

Pigs are hungry for food. As are dogs, and cows too for that matter. Men are hungry for food and for power. Men explain the meaning of power very frequently (though they may not realize it) when they say- “I am right. Do as I say. Do not argue.”
All men want this. Some men can say this to the whole world, some to a country or region, and some to their partner and kids. Some men cannot say this to anyone, though they dream of it quite a lot. Some of these people protest to put across their point, but it doesn’t really matter.

All men think different. Which implies that all powerful men in all countries think different. And all powerful men in all countries say- “I am right. Do as I say. Do not argue.” This, as news readers say, leads to a lot of friction among the countries when in fact this leads to a lot of friction among the powerful men of the countries- same countries and different countries. Pigs don’t think. Pigs are nice.

(We don’t know who, so we say) THEY say that anger makes men do strange things. So to show who is more powerful, these powerful men do a lot of strange things. They develop their factories and businesses, which make very good things. The factories also generate a lot of harmful things, but men don’t see bad things until these have spiralled out of control.
Among the good things is very good food. But when whoever created the world created the world, another rule was like this- What tastes good is bad. What tastes like shit is good. So when they make good food, which is actually bad, people start getting diseases.
Pigs don’t get diseases. Pigs eat polythene and shit it out whole.

The powerful men build big houses so show how powerful they are. Now with all the sex still happening, there are a lot more men. And big houses mean less space for other men. So the other men start cutting down trees. They cut down whole forests. They have a lot of brains but they can’t understand that they are destroying somebody else’s house to build their own. So then the earth becomes warmer. Then they make air-conditioners, which makes it really cool inside but way hotter outside.
The powerful men also make weapons to kill other powerful men with. But they mainly kill a lot of men who are not powerful. Then the other powerful men either support or condemn the killings, and then they hold summits and meetings to fight over why they are supporting or condemning the other powerful men. Like this very powerful man in the US who kills people in Iraq and Afghanistan for no apparent reason.

So all of this has led to a lot of madness everywhere. Men are killing and dying. Some even kill themselves so others will die with them. They are creating diseases and then trying to find cures for them. They are ruining things that matter, and are making things that mean nothing. They are even building a road to the Mt. Everest because they want to run on it with a torch. But you really can’t say anything because all men think they are right.

But there are some others who know they are not right. They know what the matter is. They know that the mind of men will always find reasons to justify their plans and the resulting actions- in the name of modernisation or development, of discovery or knowledge, of war-for-peace or jihad, of religion or terrorism. The justifications are numerous. The summits and meetings will go on, the protests will go on, the wars and attacks will go on, injustice and inequality will continue to prevail- all because men refuse to see and accommodate the point of view of other men.
Simply put the few men who know what the matter is know that power is stupid. But since they don’t believe in power, they don’t say “I am right. Do as I say. Do not argue.” So nobody listens to them and nothing changes.

When men created their own rules, they thought they knew what they were doing. Pigs didn’t think that. Pigs don’t think. But now the men are as clueless as pigs are. And as dogs are. And cows too, for that matter.