Human Windmill
In a secular point of view,
Hollywood ’s best answer, so far, to the very important query on man’s purpose is the story of the Matrix trilogy.
According to the movie humans are ‘milked’ of valuable energy in some kind of an enormous human farm facility
To ensure continued maximum output from every human, encased in a test tube-like vessel, a simulation of the ‘real’ world is programmed in them.
(No wonder suicide is a taboo – it means less energy resource – and procreation is highly encouraged)
Among other things, it also answers the question of who benefits from man’s existence.
If a dung beetle benefits from a buffalo’s waste matter and a falcon survives at the expense of the beetle and so on, up to the top of the food chain (if there is such a pinnacle and if there is I do not think man is occupying it because any idea that puts man at the apex is just putting the planet earth back to the center of the solar system again).
There is a phrase: balance of nature.
Without doubt, the massive scale of abuse on the environment by human beings in exchange for a handful of fresh human s**t eaten by a stray dog or maggots devouring corpses is far from being considered a fair trade.
Having access to everything while giving very little in return seems to be a privilege enjoyed by those on the top.
Does it really end with man?
Or is something higher than man making it appear like it is to keep humankind going and multiplying, thus, guaranteeing – like wind or water is to man – a renewable source of energy?
