Man - A social animal?

The fact is that we put all our efforts to understand the natural laws but we refuse to follow them just for small and short-period benefits, both on individual level and collectively as a species.

Man (human being) is a social animal. This sentence is taught in schools to describe the nature of man. It was originally quoted way back in seventeenth century by Baruch Spinoza. In what sense are we social ? Is it because we live in family, interact with one another, rear and educate our children, make friends, etc.,etc.?  To some extent we are social on personal level but as a species we have never shown SOCIAL BEHAVIOR…we kill other animals…we destroy environment…we do great harm to mother nature for short-term gains…we fight among ourselves…in family…in streets…on borders…and then we call ourselves SOCIAL ANIMAL!

Robert Ardrey has clearly stated the human nature in : ‘The tragedy and the magnificence of Homo Sapiens (human beings) together rise from the same smokey truth that we alone among the animal species refuse to acknowledge natural law’. The fact is that we put all our efforts to understand the natural laws but we refuse to follow them just for small and short-period benefits, both on individual level and collectively as a species. The moment we started understanding nature we developed a misconception that nature can be controlled and so began disrupting natural balance for selfish gains. Man has been trying hard to alter nature in all its aspects and is turning blind eye to the devastating consequences of his misbehaviour.

 Ian Mchang rightly quoted: ‘Man is a blind, witless, low-brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesion upon the earth.’

The civilization of machines, for whose creation man is very proud, has converted him into a machine and has forgotten his very essence of humanity. The manner in which modern man is behaving clearly indicates that MAN IS THE MOST ANTI-SOCIAL ANIMAL on this planet earth.