THE WORLD IS A  MESS -WHY? ___________________________________     There are so many reasons but they can be encapsulated into one central statement. Some people feel the need to control others.     The notion of controlling others seems to be the nature of some of mankind. I have no offering as to why this is so, it has been a mystery to me since conception (it seems). That is, I have always resented some-one's control over my person (being, soul, or whatever).     The notion of its seeming prevelance maybe because the man-animal has developed from the wild (i.e. the natural world as presented to him) to deciding that he must control his fellows as he wants to control the earth/environment that bore him. The notion is, of course, spurious.     Controlling a (perhaps) 'hostile' environment, man, (descended from prior animals), and by using a so-called 'brain' through which he developed his lacking senses into one of thought.     Thought is a process about which we know nothing in other animals except surmise, but something which we seem to have developed (by limited means) and by which we call this heritage 'reason'. If thought is (a) philosophy, then man is a 'reasonable' animal. That the 'reason' is spurious, maybe so. Hence, (then maybe) a false philosophy.     Man developed through contact with the earth upon which he lived. He clothed himself (as necessary) against any elements detrimental to his comfort and developed fire for warmth and a cave in which to live (for more comfort). His needs were simple. He needed food, shelter and (possibly) a mate. His 'finer' thoughts were not of generations hence, they were immediate and needed fulfilling. Thus it is with all animals. This is called 'immediate gratification'. It is this 'immediate gratification' that fills most people's minds. It isthe basis upon which, for example, we base the notion of 'marriage'. That is, having found someone with which one can copulate, one sees this as an end in itself. One commits, therefore, one's Self to the notion. This is also spurious, poetry aside.     Thus fulfilled (warmth/coolness, shelter, food, mate), a man may have felt the need to protect the plot of ground upon which he lived. Some built fences, others not, depending on where he lived and those surrounding him. These others determined his need/s but might not satisfy his wants.     Man is a strange animal. Some are quite able to fend for themselves without the help of others. Some are unable to do this. The mess in this world relates to the latter: those that, for some reason, cannot or do not want to, fend for themsleves.     These are those about whom this essay is written.     Whatever your religious beliefs, powerful though they may be, and depending upon your brain-washing from birth, they are only based upon words i.e. sounds. Words are the means by which, with limitied senses, the man-animal communicates to his fellows with like sounds and interpretations. In themselves, they are meaningless. They are sounds. If you listen to another language other than your own (and of which you are not familiar), that is all they are; they have no coherence or meaning to you, otherwise.     Using words to another animal, e.g. cat, dog, rabbit, mosquito and so on, means nothing to them, except the sound they perceive (and at whatever level that may be to them). If portrayed in a similar manner (if possible), the other animal responds. Do you think talking to a frog in like sound is stupid? But it responds. In my view, this is beautiful.     When you talk to a loved one, do you talk in the King's English?  No. You utter 'silly' expressions and make 'silly' noises. Your loved one responds. This is 'silly'? To others, it might be, because they do not understand the level of your communication.     Someone said that we are like onions. Onions have layers (when cut, they also make you cry). Is your communication with others the core, or the outer layer? The deeper to the core you go, the more onions make you cry. That is their nature.     Man has become the skin. On an onion it does nothing but hold the inner layers together. But an onion communicates to all its layers, therefore it is an onion and not something else.     However, man has more control over his layers. That is why he has survived so far, (and this may be his downfall, if he is not careful). It is certainly not his physical strength. Man's physical strangth comes from the fact that he can create weapons to feed his control.     However we were placed upon this planet we choose to call Earth, is really no matter. We will never 'really' know. We may surmise, produce theories, or believe in something. What is important is that we are here. We are conscious of our existence. How much other animals are conscious we will, again, never know. We can only surmise etc.     We need to realise that we are only a minor fraction of the plethora of fauna on this planet. We were not the first, we will not be the last. Why should we be? We are living as tenants. We pay our dues.

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