Humans gave up freedom for conquest.
From the days of recorded antiquity, we can read such stories of great conquerors like: Kublia Khan, Alexander the Great, Eric the Red, Julius Ceasar, Nicholas I, Darius I, et cetera. I pose the question: "why conquer at all?" Is it something we are lacking. Sure it is. We exchange our earthbound freedoms for the settlement and adoption of areas, laws, property lines, defense, beliefs, slavery(I speak namely of tasks not willingly done, but work done as a means of survival under subordinance). We, through inheritance, have lost the ability to squeeze the mud between our toes, go for a dip in a spring whenever we see fit, pluck fruit from trees and other cellulose rich foods from stalks and vines, walk through areas without the threat of being shot at. Life is distorted for us. To use the analogy: we are the reflected images in funhouse mirrors. Not quite human, but human in some aspects.
Humans; constantly conquering. We think of new ways we can "take over" something; even things as inanimate as land. Our surrogate freedom, to do as we please; as long as there is money to do it.
I've often times wondered if we could go back to those ways. Yes, I believe we can. We are not quite seperate from nature. Seeing as how we still breath the oxygen that plants produce. I'm not speaking of a total Luddite revolt, but an introspective look at the self. A comparison between how we will learn to survive without our vices and how we have become a part of them. A progression of eventual technological apathy.
I know I'm being a hypocrite by not living this life to the fullest, and preaching gospel; but I must. I must battle with those cynics out there who shallow out universal existence. Those people who accept simple pleasures in the forms of device; the mudslingers out there that sit idle forming rebuttals. Laziness. I give these ideas the best way I know how--as a critique of civil obedience, and the route we take in life until death.
From the days of recorded antiquity, we can read such stories of great conquerors like: Kublia Khan, Alexander the Great, Eric the Red, Julius Ceasar, Nicholas I, Darius I, et cetera. I pose the question: "why conquer at all?" Is it something we are lacking. Sure it is. We exchange our earthbound freedoms for the settlement and adoption of areas, laws, property lines, defense, beliefs, slavery(I speak namely of tasks not willingly done, but work done as a means of survival under subordinance). We, through inheritance, have lost the ability to squeeze the mud between our toes, go for a dip in a spring whenever we see fit, pluck fruit from trees and other cellulose rich foods from stalks and vines, walk through areas without the threat of being shot at. Life is distorted for us. To use the analogy: we are the reflected images in funhouse mirrors. Not quite human, but human in some aspects.
Humans; constantly conquering. We think of new ways we can "take over" something; even things as inanimate as land. Our surrogate freedom, to do as we please; as long as there is money to do it.
I've often times wondered if we could go back to those ways. Yes, I believe we can. We are not quite seperate from nature. Seeing as how we still breath the oxygen that plants produce. I'm not speaking of a total Luddite revolt, but an introspective look at the self. A comparison between how we will learn to survive without our vices and how we have become a part of them. A progression of eventual technological apathy.
I know I'm being a hypocrite by not living this life to the fullest, and preaching gospel; but I must. I must battle with those cynics out there who shallow out universal existence. Those people who accept simple pleasures in the forms of device; the mudslingers out there that sit idle forming rebuttals. Laziness. I give these ideas the best way I know how--as a critique of civil obedience, and the route we take in life until death.
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starla:
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james:
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