The Path of Humankind

I recently spilled a bag of packaging peanuts that was in my room and the little foam objects went everywhere, hundreds of them. I thought to myself, "What is the use of these things? They don't accomplish anything REALLY(or at least that something much better couldn't do), they destroy the environment by sitting in landfills and getting eaten by small animals, and they're a general pain in the ass. So why did we invent them? The only answer to THAT question that I can think of is for the sake of progress.

Humankind has this false idea that they NEED to use their intellect to invent things and try to make life "easier" when all they're really doing is setting themselves on a path for their demise and making life more complicated. We create things like cars, moving floors, and packaging peanuts in the hope that we can look smart and productive or to make our lives "easier" but with everything that "improves" our lives you create one more thing that can break, and one more reason to be lazy. Besides that, the fuels we use to power our pointless inventions are debatably fogging our atmosphere and creating acid rain that destroys environments and monuments and could be heating our planet to the point where species are dying. The worst part is scientists give us this terrible idea that it would be a waste to NOT use our intellect because it will set us back to the primates.

It all started with the Enlightenment, questioning ideas and discovering sciences that produced the bells and whistles that are the present day machina. Even before that our nomadic ancestors decided to dabble in agriculture that sent us on the path to our eminent demise. As soon as we settled down and lost the need to move and hunt we started thinking and here we are today. Being controlled by falsely represented governments, fighting over damned abstract ideas of religion, and backwardly combating societal laziness.

To top that off, we're pouring glucose and corn syrup into our foods, drinking our alcohol, and smoking until our lungs fall off. Now we're consuming things that erode our bodies, using fuels and technology by the truck load that cause cancer and disease, and spend most of our time sitting on the coach staring at a flashing screen. We gain weight, lose energy, and fall into a capitalism induced stupor.

Then the physically and mentally incapacitated populace force their children into what LOOKS like a strong education supporting creativity and intellect when really they're dropping us in a controlled, conformist environment that promotes darwinian ideologies of survival of the fittest. We're divided by age and ability into classrooms controlled by a single puppet of the government that's pouring rhetoric and forcing obedience into our heads.

If we choose to accept this and try hard in the false system that our forefathers created then we make life the best we can for ourselves and become the stimulant that continues that false progress towards the degenerating technological breakthroughs. Or, if we so choose, we can do whats best for society and avoid that path of self destruction, push away the ideas that are being fed us and find our own way in life. We probably won't get far but at least we're not creating those self-destructive technologies. But then again all those selfish, greedy, short-sited folks that DO decide to take that path are going to destroy society ANYWAYS so we'll be gone too.

So in closing, to quote one of the greatest men I've ever heard, next time you have a thought...let it pass.