Hey Sweeties,
Lately I find myself occasionally overwhelmed at human beings. Strange I know but from time to time I just look at something and think “wow, we’ve created this”. Let me explain…
The way we live now, the way we’ve adapted, developed and built everything to allow us to function the way we do, we’ve created ourselves. When Adam and Eve first walked on the earth (this is the easiest most universal theory to make the point about the beginning of time!) who knew that several million years later we could access any country in the world, venture into space…
Instead of just roaming and living all the same, like in the animal world a hierarchy was put in place to separate the common folk with the elite, we wanted ruling so a monarchy was established, then governments. We now have an enormous celebrity culture, we’ve even made celebrities of people for absolutely no reason what so ever but hey, we like fame! We recognise the good people and for the bad ones we created a criminal system where they get locked up and punished, some even fatally. We like possessions; we developed from trading items like fruit, vegetables and livestock (although I appreciate in some parts of the world this is still the case), to money and investing.
Consider transport, we had a problem, we needed to get places but our legs get tired, our feet sore and there was a limit to what we could carry. So we looked at what we had and figured out that we could ride horses, then we realised horses could pull things and more of us at a time. Then in due course we’ve created the motor car, the aeroplane, boats, and the railway and since then we’ve been crafting slicker, faster, more economic versions of them all. If you just for a moment stop and even just watch the motorway or stand in the middle of an airport or train station, ignoring the chaos, we still created it, all the systems and the ability to reach destinations across the world. Amazing really!
We invented the wheel for crying out loud! Something so unappreciated now but think of how different the world would be if an object as basic as that wasn’t formed but in equal measure imagine the breakthrough it created when it was!
Think about how much pleasure we get from something as silly as queuing! Man, we love a queue don’t we, particularly us British! Even though we complain when we’re stuck in one, I think we love the sense of order and control it brings. We respect that standing behind each other in a line waiting our turn is far more productive than fighting for space and attention.
We acknowledged the need and benefit of recording life and preserving things and making them available to see and read about in museums, books, diaries. We live in a culture where we now share and record EVERYTHING! But think, it’s all stored in cyber space so although it will never be truly lost, 21st century living won’t be found in museums in the same way we look at how the Victorians or Tudors lived. Life now is lived and experienced for today and more than ever it will be gone by tomorrow as we replace things too quickly and the things we share, capture and record are now mostly disposable moments. Our life now is disposable. Think about that.
Humans get sick and injure ourselves so we learnt medicine and created hospitals –places f
or the sick to come and get treated. This of course really is thinking about things on the most intricate basic level but this is what I mean, everything in place and how we function today is the result of many many years of development. None of it naturally just happened or appeared; we discovered a need and found a solution. We discovered a disease and found a cure.
Just something to think about.
Until next time x
