Lesson from Hummingbirds

There is a website I visit every day, it’s called “The Astronomy Picture of the Day”. See at
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

The photos displayed there sure put thing in the proper perspective for a perceptive mind.

We are a species, on the evolutionary scale, subject to the causes-and-effects chain of our evolutionary history. We can’t help being aggressive, destructive, dominating, in true spirit of the fight for survival, not realizing that our technology now would enable us to rise above all that and live in a harmonious, cooperative, productive community.

It’s like the old cartoons when Wiley Cayote walks off the cliff and is still walking on thin air, not aware that nothing is supporting him any more. We are still doing the same old routine of fighting, when we lose way more during the fight than what we could gain by cooperating.

I have two hummingbirds doing the exact same thing over the feeder we put out for them. They fight over it every day, even though there are two feeders, one for each, and they end up using mega calories in competition, when they could just coexist in harmony to the benefit of both.

Who can deny evolution in view of this marvelously human behaviour?