Friday, June 18, 2010

Back to basics

This is neither a computer science post nor a science post in my point of view, but rather a call of attention on a very important topic: When will we revise the basic principles of behavior based on how nature works? That may sound strange at first glance but I'll try to explain what I mean with that on the next lines dropped right below.

Undoubtedly we have grown and we have been growing for more than a million years, our brain has developed, we started to create things according to our needs, and here we are, on the Internet and with other many technologies, believing that we are on a ascending chart (and maybe we are). Certainly you have already questioned yourself about it, hadn't you?

The thing is: the more we talk about technology, money or whatever creations we did, we seem to forget more about how we care about the other, before you get into the wrong conclusion, let me exemplify that: Do you know when someone calls in you the middle of a task and then you say: "Wait, I'm almost there, I'll talk to you just after I finish"? This is a famous phrase, everybody uses that, but that become an horrible habit humans got. Why? Because our "task" is taking centuries, thousand years - the planet has called us, kindness has called us, unconditional love has called us, poverty has called us, violence has called us, but we seem to ignore them completely, not once, but on a daily basis, we just continue walking on our own pace. People are getting children, growing them as they did in the past, same concept base, same focus, to keep this habit of us alive. This may sound strange, but before you place a crucifying comment, I ask you to stop and think about that inertia we, as humans, have.

What worries me is that we have tremendous knowledge on many areas, but we neither revert back these knowledge, at first, to the areas which has called up our attention, nor consider them as top priority to create a consistent base for the future. We just go back to them in case they got something we need to continue our task, then we simple leave them alone again. Here you may argue saying that there are groups which are working exclusively to these areas, but they are few and their force is occluded by the biggest one, which is the one promoted by us. Besides that, these groups shouldn't be groups, these groups should exist in every single person, inside their mind.

I'm not saying that we should stop everything, as it may sound, but we should give equal importance to other questions rather than just focusing on the "BIRTH-WORK-DEATH" cycle. Remember, our coffins do not have a place to store all accumulated money we got, we neither can use it on afterlife.

If we go back to nature, we see it keeps its behavior for a long time - a dog will always swing its tail, even for a foreigner, and probably it did that for more than a thousand years. But we humans change a lot, and here it starts all questions: Do we follow this nature path? What has happened to us to become so selfish? Is this our nature?.
In one decade the trend is to be peaceful, while in another things are different. Why this happens?

My conclusion is that we create things to find our essence, in another words, our point of balance. We born unbalanced.

1 comment:

  1. We are born selfish. This is how our species survived when we were in the caves. You gotta learn to live with it if you want to continue within this society.

    We want to accumulate money even knowing that we are going to die, because we also know that after we die, we will continue in our children.

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