How Has Human Nature Shaped Our World

How has human nature shaped our world? As humans, we have constantly altered our world to meet our needs and wants. The impact of this on our physical world is evident, but what about the influences of this on us human beings? Our culture has always reflected in our way of living by observing how people interact with each other and the effects of our man made regulations on members of society, through this we have learned that humans along with their positive traits have inherited flaws, most commonly frailties related to our mental and emotional state. Frailty which can be defined as “morally weak” has always been the cause of human downfall. The four studied texts ‘Into the Wild’ a film directed by Sean Penn, a novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ written …show more content…
It has proven that in any given situation negative aspects of human nature or frailties are likely come to light, causing devastating impacts on the world and in particular other human beings. Into the Wild, Lord of Flies, The Fat Boy and The Entire History of You all have similar outcomes which is the downfall or destruction of of those who possess these defects as well as people around them, which clearly shows how negative human traits reverse the positive influences on the world accomplished by other members of our species. This shows that as humans we are prone to giving into our baser desires, exposing ourselves to our worst frailties as we are undoubtedly drawn to the pleasure of seeking dominance or superiority over others, and our selfishness in completing our desires, as shown in the studied texts. Regardless of the consequences, we give in to our temptation despite knowing of our dark nature which slowly leads into our downfall or decent into savagery. It is clear that frailties will always be part of human nature because as humans, we are susceptible to being selfish or narcissistic. Due to this we will continue to alter the world to meet our demands, but in order to overcome our frailties, we must overcome our baser desires. After achieving this we will be able to help those who have difficulties with overcoming their primitive pleasures, by doing this we can slowly decrease the negative impacts on our world, making the world a better place hence we must genuinely empathise with others. A real world example of negative influences on the world is the case of Gable Tostee, an Australian ‘playboy’, whose frailties came to light in 2014 when he was charged for the murder of Rrie Wrights. Tostee met Wrights through the dating app tinder, a few hours before she fell to her death, it is allegedly said that Tostee murdered Wrights because