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.: Saturday, April 17, 2004 :.
When shopping for a high back chair, you only need it to be as high as you are tall when seated. This of course assumes that you keep your head rested back on the chair at all times, which most people do not. In this case, the chair need only be as high as your shoulders.
Seems like a simple, straight forward thing, doesn't it?
The great majority of things in life are simple, we just make them out to be more then they actually are. When all is said and done, we're all dead. So therefore, for the most part, anything that doesn't kill you, doesn't matter.
Straight off you may be thinking about the people you love and know, how could they not matter. They do. In order for life to begin, there has to be love. If you never begin to exist, you may as well be dead, so love matters.
We've built our country around things we don't need. Luxuries. If we could survive to evolve to a point where we can come up with such fanciful things, we could most certainly survive without them. Surviving with them, however, is different. Nuclear Missiles. There should be no doubt in anyones mind that the chances of survival are much better without them.
So what drives us forward to create all these things that could potentially cause the end of existence.
Given an environment where anything is possible, anything can happen. Leave a person in a vault full of money, with no clear security, and they're bound to pocket some for themselves. Lock two people in a room, and one of the first thoughts that will go through either of their minds is how long it will be until they have to eat the other person, disgusting, but true.
Instinct. Every animal on the planet, in some way or another, is programmed to ensure its own survival. At some point in time, something screwed up, and humans got a little out of control.
Look at what we've innovated:
- Communications
- Weaponry
- Transportation
Key things in survival. Communications to be able to warn others around you of a potential threat, Weaponry to be able to defend yourself and hunt for food, Transportation in order to flee when things don't look so hot.
Communications: the further and clearer the better.
Weaponry: The more accurate and deadly, efficient if you will, the better.
Transporation: The faster the better.
So heres where things get intresting. What happens when we realize that we're our own greatest threat, and our survival instinct turns on us? Its a loop waiting to happen, technology is bad, destroy it, regress to a simpler existence, create new technologies, realize technology is bad, destroy it, and so forth.
Are people beyone simplistic instinctual control? Probably not.
Boo
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