Person vs. People

A person is smart. A person can be reasoned with and talked to in a civilized and mature manner.  You can tell a person the way things are and how they are to act.  A person follows rules (the important ones anyway).  A person has common sense and a set of morals (whether they’re bad morals or otherwise).  More importantly, a person is able to act as an individual.  This means that a person has the ability to employ the use of critical thinking and deductive reasoning to solve a problem and achieve the best possible outcome.  The mere fact that we can do that places us at the top of the chain of life on this planet and it separates us from every other animal in the world.

However, if you were to grab a handful of persons and put them within close proximity of one another, you would find that an alarming change occurs.  Instead, you are left with something else entirely.  What you have is a single organism that is dangerous in it’s complete impulsiveness and ignorance; an organism who’s parts compete ferociously with each other.  You don’t have what rightfully should be a group of persons who live, breathe, and think as individuals… you have people.

People are ruthless, hateful, greedy, and (don’t ever forget this one) stupid.  You can’t tell people how things are and how to act.  People don’t follow rules.  People don’t have common sense.  Above everything else… people are not only incapable of being individuals, but they always abandon those traits that separate the human race from every other creation.  (When in a group) People have no intelligence, reason, civility, or compassion.  There is no such thing as non-conformity.  Among all the other flaws we possess as a race, the most unfortunate would be that our very survival is dependent upon social interaction.

There are other species that live in groups and require varying degrees of social contact in much the same way humans do.  These animals travel and hunt in groups.  Everything they do is rooted in doing what is best for the survival of their unit.  This is different from what happens to humans.  They may come together to form groups but each person brings something to the table that complicates everything.  Greed is an emotion that is more destructive then any other.  All the persons that make up a group of people will do whatever it takes to achieve their own personal gains, no matter the cost.  People will stab each other in the back and will even stoop as low as destroying one of it’s own if it will bring them one step closer to getting what they want.  This is why a person can solve problems, but people can not.  In all actuality, a person will achieve more on his own then people will.  A person solves problems… people create problems.

I never thought I would ever have to think about that as much as I did but I was forced to last week when a mob of people trampled a Wal-Mart worker to death so they could get a fucking flat screened TV.  It’s outrageous that this story isn’t a lie.  It only proves that everything I have said is absolutely true and I hate to say it, but it is gonna cause our downfall.

Everyone always talk about how we should work together to solve problems but as time goes by it only becomes more obvious that we will never be able to pull that off successfully.  It’s crazy that a person would kill another person just to get a TV.  Oh wait… it wasn’t a person that killed the worker, it was PEOPLE.

The saddest part about this whole thing is that this shit happened… and no one got to keep the TV.