Survival of the fittest is the ultimate rule, right? Or are we a social collective that looks after one and all and strives for ultimately a harmonious cooperative among all mankind. It’s the dog eat dog view on man and there are a plethora of arguments for and against.

Including in the world of religion where man’s evolution from apes is called into question as is the function of our cerebral and cortex parts of our brains.

Cerebral deals with eating, basic body functions, reproduction and basic motor controls. If you feel the need to pee… It’s called natures call for a reason. The cortex deals with higher brain function. Imagination. The What If? Our art, our religion, our ambition to science and being the most right.

It’s here where we differentiate from our innate animal instinct and look beyond. But their could be some argument to the fact that we have got lost on the way to the stars.

With the rise in human trafficking, slavery and extreme weather events in the last century including 2 world wars I think one would be justified in saying ’em fucking hold on a minute’.

And with the massive advance in the development of new technologies whereby it’s hard to envision what the world will look like from year to year…

One has to wonder exactly where we are headed.

But the What If part in us also made us wonder if we could fly somehow. Then rockets. Then computers and now the internet, smart phones, homes and cars and Elon Musk.

Pushing along massive development in the car, space and AI industries at a lightning speed with huge computer advancements coming online to back him up. He is a genius and well on top of his game.

But that somehow sometimes socially inept seeming chap from South Africa who rebelled against his parents and moved to the US, the land of the free that most of the world seems to be holding in despair at the mo, is where Elon made his mark.

And he talks about being on the Moon tomorrow and Mars next week and the commentators laugh on and then he carries out another successful launch with the boosters coming back to Earth easily for the first time in human history and one and all have to pause for a moment and consider.

But Boeing, again a child of the US is not exactly far behind and ahead in some ways. As is others.

Google and Microsoft are snapping at his heals in the AI dept.

But it’s all fueling an unease that is bringing people together in as many ways as it divides us. As robots replace us… think of the checkout operators watching auto tills being installed?!

It has to also bring us together more. Dance more. Sing more. Make more art. Deal more with social issues and mental health issues that have in the past been given short shrift. Reach more for the stars than armed conflict. Deal with climate change… and it could go on and it’s not a new sermon.

But we could up our game some with less conflict.