“Lest we forget”
Every year, almost everyone in Europe will pause for one minute to remember the millions who died in WW2 with a sea of poppies. “Lest we forget” is the motto. Looking at the U-turn our thought leaders are making. It is questionable if we mean it anymore, when we say lest we forget. Maybe we should stop and evaluate what happened to ensure that we learned from history and have succeeded in preventing it from happening ever again because ideologies that started the WW2 are rife in our hearts and minds even when we stand for a minute of silence, gazing at the heart-wrenching poppies. The ideology of evolution that made us believe human beings are mere animals still dominates our understanding. The atheism ideologies that made Hitler and Stalin what they were. If we believe that human beings are mere animals, they are ultimately expendable. And not everyone loves animals. When we lose respect for life, for whatever reason, murder, war, and genocide are not far ahead.
All is fair in the land of evolution. All is fair to survive, imply the evolutionary prophets. After all, only the fittest survive. They indirectly encourage us to forget to love our neighbor. His or her existence is a loss to you, the less they are, the more you are. Their existence can be seen as your extinction. If survival of the fittest is the overriding principle, what made us and how we function, the strong and superior should eat out the weaker and inferior. That will hardly make us love our neighbors but eat our neighbors.
We ought to understand the implications of the beliefs before we hold on to any. Some are destructive to our life. Evolution has grievous consequences on how we treat ourselves and others. Its consequences are personal, societal and global. It impacts all areas of life. It makes us do away with most things we cherish.
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