In 1950, scientist Kurt Richer carried out an experiment which, although seemingly cruel, shed light the habit of hope. The rats were placed in glass containers, filled with enough water to drown them, not allowing them to escape. After only fifteen minutes of immersion in the water, without any chance of rescue, the rats had already given up, as if they had come to terms with dying.
At that moment, just before expiration, they were taken out of the tank, dried and the animals felt comforted because he was saved. However, after a few minutes they were put back into the same containers.
The scientist then noticed something outstanding in animal behavior; Now they hoped to be saved. They no longer gave up in the first fifteen minutes, but fought for survival up to sixty minutes. Because? Now they had hope.
It seems, then, that hope is something artificial that we can teach other creatures; Amazingly, animals could learn something from us for a change. But in these cases, hope is a form of cruelty, at least for those animals who do not lose faith human kindness which eventually overcomes hunger. They are bred from incubators, or supplied bottle feeding, in order to bring them to the ideal weight at which they will become goods, and will be distributed in portions and plastic packaging, then cooled in the freezers of a quiet home. In the end, I can understand that thanks to these practices we put food on our table, but it is still a shocking reality.
Is it possible that everyone will, in the end,nsagraran in vegetarians? At this point in the global society, which already reaches eight billion people, this will probably never happen. But the sad thing is that we use that degree of hope to our advantage, which ends up infecting the livestock we then consume. It sounds cruel and sad, but it is our reality. Feelings are also eventually digested.
Undoubtedly, the oversensitivity of the current world, or the path it walks, will lead future generations to distance themselves from the cruel processes of agricultural and food production, to turn a deaf ear to the bloody victims who are ultimately part of that industry. It is not that the man of the future will one day be more sympathetic to the animals that satisfy this demand for meat products, but that he will not want to know how from the birth of a tender product to plastic packing in which it is preserved and consumed.
In this great laboratory of current life, we see the trend described above in those hundreds of thousands of viewers of accidents who now only watch the dramas of life through mobile phones, and feel very safe even when they shamelessly film the tragedies that happen to them. Others suffer, hiding behind their cell phone screens, to later upload to that network a video that is more cruel than all the thousands of shows that the Romans could see on television. arenas of the ancient Coliseum. Hope finally seems to be at the heart of the enormous evolutionary success of our species. Because mothers take their babies in their arms and carry them in the warmth of their breasts, because family love warms our lives and the empathy of others turns to see us, we are like those lab rats in Ritcher’s cruel experiment, because it takes up residence in our midst. very deep, the assimilation of the learned habit of hope.
If that hope is lost, man would return to paths of perfect animality which survives in him, not expecting anything more from life than he could provide just to survive.
Source: Panama America
I am David Miller, a highly experienced news reporter and author for 24 Instant News. I specialize in opinion pieces and have written extensively on current events, politics, social issues, and more. My writing has been featured in major publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and BBC News. I strive to be fair-minded while also producing thought-provoking content that encourages readers to engage with the topics I discuss.
