The Bottom-Feeders Frenzy[1]
By Claudia Berdella
This was the real secret. Annihilation. Nothing else. A chemical pulse that dissolved finally in violet light. No stories. Now we would always be frightened.
- Joseph Kanon, Los Alamos[2]
As the Apex predator with zero competition or predatory threats to challenge, the human species is as a result a naturally destructive and hostile towards one another. Humans likely would not be able to survive if we stopped preying upon our own[3].
Ever-lasting peace is unnatural. Humans are cannibalistic[4] in almost every sense of the word, however most do not like to even consider entertaining the notion of legitimately consuming another, though an argument can be made that the Catholics are the most prevalent practitioners of this taboo practice through their pseudo-enactment by eating the metaphorical body and blood of Christ at communion (and the Bible is quite pro-cannibalism at the core). People are cannibalistic in a more psychic vampire[5] sense of things, they devour one another because people love the abuse as it makes the abused feel like they are needed[6], and the sadist fee like the lion who kills the weaker animal for sport rather than food; death is a carnal entertainment. The psychic vampires are inherently bottom feeders who drain everyone else’s resources and energy.
Being naturally self destructive, humans are the only known species to create means of omnicide in order to feel safer, war is truly peace. Though the Cold War ended decades ago, the threat of mutually assured destruction[7] still is most people’s faith in settings of atomically stocked superpowers. Yet there is a likely possibility that the creation of the nuclear bomb was the beginning of the end of human history l, as it would be the ultimate omnicidal[8] act if atomic combat ever occurred.
That would make July 16, 1945 at 5:29AM[9] the final moment of the human era on earth. The father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer himself realized this, as did many of those present during the Trinity test and is characterized in his famous quote:
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.[10]
As well as George Kistiakowsky after viewing the explosion:
This is the nearest thing to doomsday that one could possibly imagine. I am sure that at the end of the world — in the last millisecond of the Earth’s existence — the last human will see what we saw.[11]
This quote certainly bodes disturbing inside the mind upon consideration, but if one pairs it with the seventh Satanic Statement as written by Anton LaVey:
Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine and intellectual development” has become the most vicious animal of all![12]
it is not much of a surprise. Pair this with the idea of the Great Filter[13] that the reason we have yet to encounter any other intelligent species is because they destroy themselves before they are able to travel the cosmos as a mission, and it’s the natural order of things.
The conclusion to this is that there is no conclusion, it is an open and ever-going idea that will persist until the human race is finished.