What is Mankind?

What is Man?
What is Mankind?
But A cannibal who likes to eat up one another's minds, mentally I mean.
We just like to criticise negatively that is, violate, belittle, ostracize, subjugate, oppress one another.
We love to feel superior, that we are better than, we have somethin over the other.
That we are more important.
And so we discriminate at will, segregate, even incriminate,.
Man is just a lousy, fallible, worthless  and fickle piece of number 2
With an expiry date that is unclear and unknown.

So then why shouldn't we just try to live in peace and not pieces, 
In love and not war and constant endless unnecessary strife evermore.
What can't we see the good in each other,
Learn to congratulate , uplift, as opposed to pulling down more.
Why can't we be willing to help one another more, 
Find fault less, help up more, push down less.
Why should we feel better than just because we are richer, or the other poor, 
And try and cooperate and build up more?
Try to develop the ingredients and skills of Listening, observing and understanding More, and talking and ignoring a little less.
Stop being aloof, and try to come down a little. 
Stop passing each other without a greeting and without a care or concern whatsoever.
Try Reaching out a tid bit more or tad bit more.
Develop a mantra to make life easier, and better and smoother for you and me and everyone else from now on. Make to vow to that effect or effort.
Try your best to alleviate or mitigate not augment the hurt, the infighting, the gap, the rampant disunity and pulling and tugging we see and encounter every day.
This should be the main purpose of our lives.
To add, not subtract, To Improve.

Define Human Nature.
It is Conquer, Condition the other to Capitulation,
It Is Plunder and Pillage. It is Coldness and Cruelty.
She Is Me First. Or I First. She is All about Me. More of Me and Less of You.
Or More For Me and Less or None For You. She is merely Like a selfish Endeavour or Entity.
We need to try to change or rearrange this foolish and stupid Definition as promptly as possible.
Reshuffle that way of Thinking or thought process.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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