Where is life?

        At the beginning of Planet of the Apes, the original film, the protagonist finds a plant trying to survive in the middle of a desert after the destruction of the Earth. The plant was trying to survive in an adverse place, and that scene caught my attention.
        At times, I remember this scene when I see a plant trying to do the same in the middle of a pavement, despite people walking around it.
      Once, on YouTube, I was watching a blind man who played reggae with an improvised guitar, made of a large tin can and some taut strings. With those few chords, he could play an intelligible song. These events show us that it is impossible to prevent life from surviving despite adversities.
      When I watch these scenes, I think that both nature and human creativity are the same thing and wonderfully challenging. We know scenes of children dying in Africa or everywhere, alone or in their mothers’ arms, and can identify the resilience of life in action because many of them will survive. I wonder if the genetics of creativity are not a challenge to powerful people who imagine themselves to be the owners of ordinary people’s lives. I see photos and videos and think that, within inequality, those capable of finding solutions for new energy sources or a cure for diseases might be dying.
        The greatest asset of humanity is the creativity and resilience of human beings, despite those who have a genetic predisposition to world destruction. In these new times, the world honours some for their suspected performances, and does not honour those new inventors or adventurers of knowledge who are dying or suffering. They may be stubborn people who insist on surviving only to show that what is good will win and what is bad will tend to disappear soon.
        I wonder if our societies are not like nature, which does not defend itself but takes revenge. We scorn ordinary people’s imagination and call it “popular culture”, as if it were a culture apart from, and not the one that will be, in the future, a new way to drive the world. At the same time, some people scorn Hip-hop, Reggae and Funk, and forget that popular culture is the origin of our knowledge. Like nature, culture does not defend itself, but takes revenge to show us new ways of thinking and resisting, to flourish in the harshness of minds that look like pavements of cement.
       This occurs when powerful people insist on giving precarious education to the poorest and prevent new scientists from emerging. If we think hard, the genetics of genius does not follow the logic of “those born with a silver spoon in their mouth”. On the other hand, genetics is a weapon that fires randomly, and we do not know where, when, or who will be chosen. If this gift goes to an unassisted individual or population who are scorned by society due to the colour of their skin or gender, this is similar to a society taking revenge against powerful people who die from diseases that would be cured if they were less selfish and prejudiced.

Photo from: Foto de Jeremy Bishop na Unsplash
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