OK, maybe I've been watching Star Trek for too many years. I make no claims of being mentally sound or unsound. But think about it, over thousands of years every species mutates both physically and mentally to reflect changing conditions. Our species started in small family groups, hunting and fishing and living in caves. We slowly evolved into a humongous civilization with the technical capacity to feed and care for millions. Cities, governments, laws and humanity became refined in the 1900's. We lost our hair and muscles (and our minds, some would argue). Our arms grew shorter. Now on to the next thousands of years. Six billion procreators at the kick off. A huge accumulation of greedy people in the most powerful positions (big business and governments alike). Millions starving and warring in third world countries. Humanity quickly being reduced to little more than a quest for sustenance, wealth, sex and power. No logical means in sight to stop the spiral. So what will our species resemble in a thousand years. Maybe the poor will physically mutate into some type of organism capable of feeding on garbage and pollution. Probably something akin to rats. The wealthy and powerful will likely have huge heads and withered sticks for arms and legs. Maybe something like Jabba the Hutt. The Jabba's will procreate with the rats and produce yet a third mutation

Let's look at the more subtle psychological/sociological changes in just the past fifty years. Sports, no longer a wholesome pursuit geared to teach youth the values of sportsmanship, rather combat for money. Society and children? When I was a kid, you could go to most any neighborhood and trick or treat. There was a general feeling that most adults looked out for the young. Every stranger is now viewed with suspicion and as a potential threat. The children now integrate this into their views of society from a young age. Suspicion, fear and violence among our own kind has become a staple in our genetic blueprint. We've gone from caves to communities and now back to the jungle (albeit an asphalt jungle, with the primary predators being our own kind).

If past evolutionary trends are any indicator, the human species of the future will evolve into organisms physically and psychologically geared towards combat with each other. Their organs will evolve into unrecognizable mutations that are capable of existing in a cesspool. What might these creatures of the future look like?

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