I want to smash my phone, sit in a room and paint nature's perfect creations. Connectivity is a double-edged blade. On one hand, you are always in touch with someone, on the other, you are always in touch with someone. Just today I was frustrated with how my internet wasn't working, how my phone was almost out of balance. It's obsessive, really, how connectivity controls our life. Whether its a portal to an plane of information, or it's a personal moment, contacting a single person, it is very crucial in our age. But picture a world reset. Picture all satellites going down! All wires wilting away! All beacons crashing down! Would we truly have lost something? Yes and no. It'd definitely slow down our daily activities, it would definitely cause entire corporations to come crashing down, but after that, would we survive? Yes we would. This near instantaneous contact with other human beings was never a part of our being! If it was so, we'd be telepathic, would we not? Imagine a world of being free, where your boss can't harass you, where your teacher cannot alert you at any time for a late night lecture, where your friends cannot bother you when you truly just want to be alone!
This is how I feel at times. Maybe how I feel right now. But humanity is a self evolving species. Unlike other species, we have no tusks for defense, no fur for warmth, no pheromones for communications. But we have the ability to make changes to our lifestyle. We've invented the gun for protection, woolen wear for warmth and various devices for communication. Thus we've reigned supreme. We can be every animal on this planet, and more! This is our boon. So when you're feeling let down, when you feel like smashing your phone and just sitting in a room and painting nature's perfect creations, think of this with pride. As much as I hate to admit it, there will be a time in a future not so distant when our entire minds will be shared with one and all to see. Think of this not as a bane, but as an asset of our ever-evolving species. So suck it up, and appreciate these stupid phones.
This is how I feel at times. Maybe how I feel right now. But humanity is a self evolving species. Unlike other species, we have no tusks for defense, no fur for warmth, no pheromones for communications. But we have the ability to make changes to our lifestyle. We've invented the gun for protection, woolen wear for warmth and various devices for communication. Thus we've reigned supreme. We can be every animal on this planet, and more! This is our boon. So when you're feeling let down, when you feel like smashing your phone and just sitting in a room and painting nature's perfect creations, think of this with pride. As much as I hate to admit it, there will be a time in a future not so distant when our entire minds will be shared with one and all to see. Think of this not as a bane, but as an asset of our ever-evolving species. So suck it up, and appreciate these stupid phones.
One day we may even evolve into a race consciousness, and that sounds scary. The next paragraph is going to be for science fiction ramblers like myself, so you can skip it if you will:
How would you like it if you were merely a cell in a gigantic organism called humanity? I'd be petrified right now. But oh the unity! Oh the invincibility of this being! I was learning about cells a few days ago, and this is the first thought that came to me: Cells are living creatures, disjoint, connected just by veins, arteries and other passages. We too are living things, with roads, canals and airways being our modes of connection. Cells use neurons for communication, we use phones. Our postal services could be the Golgi apparatus, our factories the mitochondria! So who knows, we could just be the second tier of a multi-tiered organism! Formed in the distance future, this would parallel how life started as unicellular organisms and eventually evolved into multicellular beings. Just think about this. Then read More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon and Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov.
Yes, I truly am in a most thoughtful mood. I'm also in a reminiscent mood. I leave you with these words from the song Rest Calm by Nightwish:
"Every little memory resting calm in me, resting in my dreams, smiling back at me. The faces of the past keep calling me to come back home, rest calm and remember me."
Good night, and sleep as dreamily as I do.
"Every little memory resting calm in me, resting in my dreams, smiling back at me. The faces of the past keep calling me to come back home, rest calm and remember me."
Good night, and sleep as dreamily as I do.
