Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

As soon as babies are born I this world we inject them with this virus called good life. A life where you can drive big cars, eat at good restaurants, flash some fancy degrees and flaunt some obscenely expensive gadgets. And they run after it all their lives. Only to realise that this was all false. All a trap. A trademill where you run faster but stay where you are. Ed up getting fatigued but reaching no where. Why are we humans so cruel? So unsympathetic. When are we going to realise that good things in life are free. Only we need to free ourselves from the chains of civilization to enjoy them and live a good life.

This is a question that mankind needs to ask itself. We all need to ask ourselves. In this mad rush for MORE we are heading towards being NOMORE.  We are killing the planet, killing our health, killing our future and killing everything we have built in the last 10000 years  We are already enough. Enough. We need no more development. Let's enjoy what we have achieved and live happily as a race in peace and with joy

Imagine prince Gautama having everything in life and giving it all way for something he vaguely knew of. That's the starting point of greatness. To take the leap of faith. Every great man has to take the leap of faith as everyone starts with nothing and builds something that ensures the termites of time. I really love this concept. There is a Buddha in all of us as Gautam Buddha said. We all can be a Buddha in our lifetimes if we believe it strongly and take the leap of faith

It's disappointing to see that we are creating a world where machines will rule. A world where the rich poor divide will be greater. A world where we are finding weapons to kill more and more cruelly. We humans are blessed. We are blessed with abundance and endless joys. Why don't we create a more inclusive world? A world where no one is hungry and no one is suffering. A world where we can find eternal peace and joy. We have the power to create heaven on earth. Let's focus on that as a civilization. As humanity.

We lost ourselves when our quest was overtaken by greed. First, we wanted to learn - the earth, the oceans, the skies and then we wanted to own them. We invented toys of mass pleasure and mass pain. We got religion and creed. And we got lost in all these. We stopped being the wanderers who wanted to cherish nature. Enjoy it's gifts.  We started challenging the almighty the creator. We lost. We are dying as a race. Dying with the burden of civilization that offers only stress and agony of loans. Sitting in one position we are destroying our body the greatest gift of nature. We don't deserve to be called the smartest of all species. We are the most idiotic of all. We are dumb. AI is taking over. We will be lost in machines soon. They are our future. We cease to be us soon. God bless us!

As I get older, I am beginning to feel what a waste the civilised man has been. Just 10000 years of existence and we have messed our health, our mind, our environment, our survival mechanism and our future. We existed uncivilised for around 2.5 million years and it was great. Hunting, gathering and surviving. Civilization. The biggest mistake of mankind in my view. The second biggest mistake, investing in AI. It will wipe us all out. And we are silently marching towards that end. Let's embrace simplicity. Let's take a few steps back when we worked with our hands in the open. Produced our own food. Made our own clothes. Without machines and with tools. It can help us live longer and live fuller. Rather than just surviving like rats. Comeon mankind...show you are the smartest animal on this planet. There is still time.