Curiosity killed the cat. Curiosity killed humanity. Everyone knows that first saying. It’s very true in all places of life, starting all the way at the beginning of life when the first Archeans started to rap thin layers of sediment with their sticky filaments, and continuing on until all of present and future life cease to exist. It’s just the nature of living beings. There will always be more to know and learn and we will always want to know and learn more than that. Human beings continually search for the unknown. That idea shows up throughout the books The Odyssey by Homer, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke. The problem is that curiosity killed the cat. The more we know, the more danger that emerges. One day our continuous snooping and searching could very well kill all of
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Snooping is human nature and sometimes we humans don’t even realize we are doing it, its human nature after all. In The Odyssey by Homer, endless curiosity is just at frequent. In book IX, Odysseus, trapped on a land full of Cyclopes, gathers his crew and tells them that he and some others will go and find out more about the Cyclopes. He says they will if they are kind and hospitable. “My faithful comrades, wait for me: I’ll take my ship and crew to see who these may be- are they unfeeling people, wild, unjust, or do they welcome strangers, does their thought include fear of the gods?” (174). This quote shows just how curiosity controls mankind. Odysseus, inquisitive and intrigued, decides he wants to know more about the Cyclopes. He decides that he cannot let life go on without him knowing. This action, however, leads to the death of six trusty crewman. A simple example of Curiosity killing humanity. How human beings will continually search for the unknown. Another example is in book X of The Odyssey by Homer, when Odysseus’s crew open the bag of winds, wanting to know what lies inside it. “Meanwhile my crewman
Snooping is human nature and sometimes we humans don’t even realize we are doing it, its human nature after all. In The Odyssey by Homer, endless curiosity is just at frequent. In book IX, Odysseus, trapped on a land full of Cyclopes, gathers his crew and tells them that he and some others will go and find out more about the Cyclopes. He says they will if they are kind and hospitable. “My faithful comrades, wait for me: I’ll take my ship and crew to see who these may be- are they unfeeling people, wild, unjust, or do they welcome strangers, does their thought include fear of the gods?” (174). This quote shows just how curiosity controls mankind. Odysseus, inquisitive and intrigued, decides he wants to know more about the Cyclopes. He decides that he cannot let life go on without him knowing. This action, however, leads to the death of six trusty crewman. A simple example of Curiosity killing humanity. How human beings will continually search for the unknown. Another example is in book X of The Odyssey by Homer, when Odysseus’s crew open the bag of winds, wanting to know what lies inside it. “Meanwhile my crewman