IN the beginning, humans lived off the earth. Taking only what they needed from earth to survive and indeed they did good for themselves, because they did not expect anything more. They had basic needs to satisfy and that is it. Millions of years later, we are the same people. Yes we evolved into more intelligent beings, but the question is: Are we smarter?
Today technology owns the human race. If the power goes out, we are screwed. We can communicate until our, not-generating-power not-so-smart phone runs dead. We cannot send any mails or texts or calls. If the server at work is dead the whole company comes to a grinding halt. How is it that we have become so fast paced that we cannot keep up without that what we created?
It is because we got used to the easy way, and now we are addicted to it. Every 99.9% of humans have an addiction of some sort. Most smoke or go for a drink or pop a pill. Others hit the caffeine bar. Some bite nails, while others check facebook every 5 seconds, but bottom line is that almost every one you know is addicted to something physical or psychological. Then they call it a hobby or a necessity to their minds don’t feel too bad. We have become so addicted to the good life that we cannot live without it. If the day should come of a nationwide power blackout, like the one in south africa, fact is that after a week, the streets would look like a scene out of The Walking Dead. People would not know how to find food or build shelter or provide for their families. There would be no mcDonalds to go to.
As technology get smarter, we get dumber. Technology does all the work for us, but the thing we rely on is relying on us. Like the robot said in iRobot; Humans are killing themselves. We are way to addicted. I believed that humans a million year back had no addictions, that is why they survived. They only took what they needed. They invented objects to make their tasks easier, but still had the skills to go without it. Until evolution came and they developed tools to do the work for them, but now I’m repeating myself.
Bottom line is humans have too many addictions. Ways to deal with problems they created themselves. If you take only a knife and get dropped in a remote location, you will see how quick real problems arise.
Sometimes we all must take a pause for the cause and get back to nature and do a little survival trip and get perspective of life and how to spend the time given to us on Earth.
Time is the only matter in the universe that we cannot control, make, modify or give.
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