“Settlement gave rise to division of labor. Division of labor gave rise to technology. With the rise of technology came trade and commerce. With trace and commerce came mathematics and literacy and science, and all the rest. The whole thing was under way at last, and the rest, as they say, is history.”
I’m thinking this is very true, but this didn’t just all of a sudden ‘appear to be’ this. It took courage and hard work to develop this ideal “civilized” picture of how OUR culture was made. As Ishmael said, “Very impressive, I’m sure you realize that the ‘big moment’ you’ve just described was in fact the birth of your culture.” This is virtually pretty impressive, if you think of it as bettering our world and our culture by adding onto it ten years at a time. Say I was building a house, and I didn’t have enough money to build a nice, two-story bedroom with a car garage. Obviously, I couldn’t do it in one year; but I had to start somewhere. So I would start off by building a cabin, work, earn the money and then start building my so called dream house. As the house is being built, I would keep working and earning more money to invest into that house, and sooner or later, the house would be built. Naturally, people take out loans and do other things to earn their money, but I’m just trying to make a point that it takes time and energy to create something that is meaningful.
It’s like we have to have a plan, a plan that actually works. We test things out, we work with pros and cons, weigh a solution to the problem(s), and then figure things out step by step. It doesn’t take a single day to learn a foreign language; it takes time and practice that we have to sacrifice and mold into a daily routine. What would we do without technology? Most say technology is one of the best things that every happened to the world. Is that really true? Or is that what we want to believe? I wonder what it would be like without technology.
The first thing that comes to mind is that technology is a HUGE part for why we live the way we live. I’m not going to say that we are living better than our ancestors did, because I’m pretty sure they thought they lived a pretty good life, considering how much they gained, learned and went through. I’m also pretty sure that the elders that are still alive think that the younger people are incredibly blessed to have what we have today. My grandfather tells me that my generation is fortunate because we grew up what they didn’t grow up with. We have cars, Hondas, skiffs, motors, television, and the internet. When he mentions that to me, I think…geez, we are lucky. We have everything! Maybe sometimes it is agreeable for our elders to say that, but maybe, just maybe, we aren’t as lucky as we think we are. The world might be, or is being corrupted and brain-washed by the people who created us, the people who passed their knowledge down to us. I’m not sure if this makes sense, but it seems to me like the world is taking tiny little steps towards corruption; the world is taking three steps forward and is slowly taking five steps back…it’s time we change that-it is time WE make history before it's too late.
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I like what you said near the end of this entry. I get what you mean when you say that "the world might be, or is being corrupted and brain-washed by the people who created us." I think that is what makes a lot of us think what we are doing to the world is okay, because the people we look up to and the people who taught us are telling us it's okay. That might be where we are able to make a difference...by telling the people who look up to US that destroying the world is not okay.
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