Darwin
was right about human beings, as the descendants of gorillas. What he failed to
predict was, that, some of the stubborn genes are so resilient like a bacteria,
that no mutation can improve them. And unfortunately the tropical climate of
India is a favourable host for those genes and help in maintaining the
heredity, generations after generations.
Let us
understand this through a small experiment.
Bring
together a small number of gorillas. Let’s say twenty. Now, throw ten bananas
at them. What will they do? They will fight over the bananas. This is
understandable. There can be a reasonable hypothesis for that. There is
struggle for existence, physiological needs, survival of the fittest blah blah.
Now,
bring the same twenty gorillas together. And throw ten million bananas at them.
What will they do? Each gorilla will eat a stomach full peacefully and preserve
the rest for future? Obviously not. They will still fight over the bananas, eat
a small number and spoil the rest rendering them waste. Now, how do we reason
that? Are the gorillas psychopaths? Possibly not. Perhaps it’s their basic
nature to fight without a valid reason. It’s there in their genes, to fight
unnecessarily.
Whatever
is happening around us is not much different from the hypothesis, I call ‘The
Banana Theory of Gorillas’. God made this beautiful world and more specifically
this incredible country, with sufficient resources for the peaceful survival of
the entire mankind. There has never been any dearth of resources in here, be it
natural or intellectual (or may be pseudo-intellectual). We could easily be
energy sufficient by now, given the number of rivers in our country. We could
have left polio in the twentieth century with the amount of money we have spent
there. We could possibly be earthquake resistant by a large margin with the
intelligence available in the country. We could have been an ideal country (or
a planet) where people use the resources just enough for their needs and pass
on the rest for others.
