Humans beings, supposedly one of the most resilient and versatile creatures ever to exist. The science books tell me that we can pretty much adapt and change to live in any environment, within given reason of course. Adaptation, it's the eternal skill that every human, supposedly anyways, has that allows us to continue and live. You can pick any one person up from their normal environment and place them in a completely new, different environment, they will be able to live and prosper there. It's our genetic makeup that determines this for us, or at least that's what we are suppose to believe. Yet, do we actually adapt and change at all? Look back in the history of mankind, we are always dealing with the same damn problems, just a different era of time. Don't believe me? Look back through history. We haven't adapted at all.
Singularly humans can adapt pretty well. I mean if we could not then we would certainly have been extinct a long time ago. It's just when you zoom out and start looking at our race as a whole, we haven't changed a bit. We are still dealing with the same issues that people hundreds of years ago dealt with. Race. Sex. Money. Government. Drugs. Crime. Sure humans can adapt alright. Adapt right back to the way they have always been and, from the ways thing have been progressing, always will be. Humans do not adapt at all, they just redapt (I made that word up, hurray). Now this idea of "redapting" does not only follow the normal flow of life, it also extends into religion, philosophy, politics, etc. Look at all the philosophers of all time, they all just argue the same thing. The strife of mankind. The purpose of mankind. The plague of mankind. It's all hogwash.
Now does this mean that humans have, in theory, not progressed at all over the hundreds of years? Yes, and no. We certainly have made thousands of intellectual breakthroughs in terms of technology. It just sort of ends there. We still, sorry for being blunt, suck on so many levels. Our philosophy and religion have really gone no where. It seems, for me anyways, that when it comes to deep cognitive thought, we haven't really progressed at all. We still argue about the same things that people were arguing about hundreds of years ago. We, as a race, need to kill ourselves. That's the answer. Sorry, I am feeling oddly more cynical than usual. Now go out and prosper!
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Don't forget science (in reference to your line about technology). As far as your entire post goes, I agree with you that we are dealing with the same issues. However, the issues are generally the same, not identical. If you're going to look across humanity, you'll see the opium (oft called the silk) road. Now, today we don't deal with opium. The reason is because opium is now controlled, however, something inside someone's humanity told them to find a new way to get high, to escape. Really, if you look at it in broad terms, everyone is trying to escape their fears. War for fear of weakness and enslavement, drugs for fear of responsibility and reality, religion for fear of death and lack of purpose. As long as someone is afraid, these issues will pervade our society until our extinction. The best anyone can do is to be in control of themselves, take responsibility for their actions, and show respect to everyone else. Try to make the best of your life before it's over.
Amen.
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