Aside from war, these creatures also seemed preoccupied with destroying the Earth. They appeared to give it very little thought at all. Humans maintained they were superior over the environment and could dominate nature at any expense. For creatures with large brains and reasoning power, this is hard to figure out. Living in groups did not help this faulty reasoning. People formed companies to supply everyone with goods. Goods were good. But the by-products of producing those goods was bad. It required exploiting the environment. They dumped the by-products into the streams and oceans, cut down all the forests, and ravished the land looking for oil and coal. The heads of these companies made millions of dollars figuring out how to deceive the public into believing that what was happening was best for everyone. That Mother Nature could deal with it. That everything would be fine. They exploited everything imaginable. It was all done in the name of profit. They called it capitalism. Nothing was to stand in the way of growth. If a concrete road did not run to where people wanted to go, they built one. These were all odd, selfish notions.
Procreate, fight, and destroy. It was a vicious cycle that they could not break.
Now they are gone. It is only I who has survived. I, one single cell floating through the vast universe of time. Now I must start again. I must wait for that single magical moment when everything comes together in such a way that I can once again drive life forward. For the one-million and fifty-ninth time, I will start again. Hopefully this time they can get it right.
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