Humans are ever puzzling creatures.
While enjoying a friendly game of bowling last night, I took a few moments to look around and observe the situation. Seeing these oddly put together organisms grasping these brightly coloured round objects, proceeding to approach a line, and then hurl the brightly coloured round object down a narrow floor with a divet on each side, so it can collide with plastic white somewhat hour-glass shaped objects at the other end. The brightly coloured round object is then mechanically sent back to the human and they do it again, and again, and again....
When did this action come about and how did it get incorporated into human ways? Primal peoples would be more concerned with survival and the things connected to it. So, in my opinion, it goes back to the time when humans were no longer hunter gatherers and began to harness their farming capabilities. This event was drastic in human culture because nature and the earth was not something a human lived in and with, but something they controlled and manipulated. It started the disconnection of humans and their environment.
Once humans improved in their farming practices, it freed up time. Because humans were able to decimate the predator population, they were not concerned if they were going to be eaten or killed in any way. Humans then had time to use their intellect developing games and entertaining ways to pass the time.
Over time, society has become consumed with the concept and that is what humans live for. They work to make money to do the things they enjoy, because most of the time, they do not enjoy their work. It has become a means to an end. Some people struggle... to incorporate their work and their life into something meaningful to them and it is their contribution to the world. However, that is not the perception held by the majority of humans today. The fixation to be entertained and consume is driving the human population further from their origin, further from the earth, further from their home.
Just think if each human only possessed what they needed to survive, how much more of the environment would exist that is currently covered in asphalt, trash, and unused items.
1 comment:
i like to see myself part of this nature even though i'm part of this craze of alphalt, trashed and unused items. aren't they something that we, the dirty humans, only notice? I hope birds don't say that "oh my god, what have we done? we modified the world by building our nests!" at the same time, the mentioned awareness of modification is also part of our nature and i salute your points.
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