Jackdaw

I got out of bed this morning at about seven o’clock, opened my back door and watched, in the garden a jackdaw trying to feed from a bird feeder designed for sparrows.

Watching his complex movements, not just in his flight, but even moving his head from side to side, every muscle working independently, not random, but with total control. I started thinking about all of the individual cells in his body working independently, yet as a team in perfect unison. The way this fragile body is just a vessel for millions of micro organisms to live and survive in. The way that these organisms use the bird and give it only just enough brain power to think about feeding and reproducing.

It’s not that the bird was hungry, or starving, he saw the nuts which were, to me, obviously inaccessible to it however hard it would try. The only way he would get the food inside the feeder would be to destroy it.

The workings of the jackdaw’s body would be far too complicated for it to understand, which makes me feel that the brain is being controlled by the physical mass of living cells in the bird rather than vice-versa. How else would such a complicated creature behave so stupid?

I find it difficult to understand how any creature could design itself, yet not understand anything about itself. He is obviously doing o.k. in life, surviving, even with its crazy ways and instincts in the bird’s tiny brain. (I.e. get the nuts which it doesn’t need by destroying the food source)

This started to ring many bells in my tiny brain. We humans are exactly the same. Destructive, unknowingly maybe in most cases, that we are destroying everything for stuff which we don’t even need, including the vast amounts of food produced just to be thrown away, unknowing of the land clearance and habitat destruction to get us the food, only to be wasted.

Watching the bird’s behaviour, I found it to be totally irrational. I noticed this because I am supposed to be more intelligent than this creature. So who is there to tell us the error of our ways, if we really are the most intelligent beings on the planet, and possibly the universe? This doesn’t give us much hope does it? We have a responsibility to everything which is too massive to comprehend. We are growing and expanding at an almighty rate compared with everything else. Or at least it feels like we are. We have been consuming and destroying all, and it is only going to get worse.

We, unlike the jackdaw, have something extra. It’s called arrogance. We are mostly too arrogant to admit that we are doing it all wrong, and too stupid to stop. We feed on greed and thrive on destruction. We only know what we feel, and I fear that greed feels good.

The existing universe as we know it doesn’t care if we live or die. There is nothing that exists now that didn’t exist before. It just changes shape, size and form, and is all relative. When we die we just change form, but it is our consciousness that we strive to maintain. Consciousness is life.

Wrong information has been passed down in our physical make up for many generations and we truly are just animals. No different to the jackdaw in many ways, and is relative to how intelligent another being is and to whether or not they were watching us asking themselves, why are those creatures behaving so irrationally and stupid, can’t they see that it doesn’t work like that? In my eyes the whole system is wrong. Nothing makes sense, and nothing works. Nothing adds up. Many people are looking for the answers, and I can be almost certain that the answers we seek are staring us in the face. If only there was some being with more brain power to give us a hint.

Gibbo.