Specialized Business
Are the ways we act and run in a society based off human thought and interaction or the natural drive to survive? We have built a new earth on the concrete. We eroded the forests down to plains and we set up shop. One of the interesting aspects of the human spirit is that it is flexible and malleable. Our minds problem solve, and instead of simple “hit or miss” techniques we work them out. Implement and invent mathematics to make the time between finding out the answer and solving it shorter. But these inventions of our thoughts like mathematics are in fact our confliction with nature. It is an example of how we think up ways of cutting through the preexisting way of doing things. Remember, Organisms progress and adapt faster and more efficiently in groups or societies. It gives the species a greater chance at survival. Sometimes they change their surroundings, build intricate cities out of the earth itself, its own brand of brick and mortar. They fabricate intricate architectural marvels and the complexity alone would make one freeze in wonder. We as a collective organism (life) share unmistakable characteristics with each other. It almost could be said to be the law of life, the collective acknowledgment of real consequences for needs in a un hospitable world.
But could the drive of reproduction explain what we buy and choose to look like? Could the drive of our whole economy be caused by a very simple aspect of the law of life? There is a type of bird called a “bowerbird” that is indigenous to New Guinea, and Australia. The way that most animals attract mates in nature are how many of us attempt to attract our mates. Some rely on their physical size or strength; others rely on their physical features and attractiveness. But the bowerbirds are mostly a plain bird with no real extravagant colors on its feather to attract mates. So in the absence of any real physical trait to attract, the bowerbird builds a house. They first clear away the ground of any rocks or anything the bird chooses it doesn’t like, and creates a house like structure out of ferns, grass, moss, or leaves. Then painstakingly retrieves berries, flowers, fungi, pieces of colorful décor for their lawns. But they all display different ideas of what the female would like so each is completely different. When the female walks by the house it evaluates the male with careful scrutiny and sass, and reluctantly proceeds into his man cave.
Given this example we can reflect on our own way of life. What we do to attract mates or even to succeed in the workplace. Could the overwhelming quality in our society, like the need to buy and consume, be a natural path or a perversion upon that natural path. We hurry around our streets bombarded constantly with the images of products. In a sense the theme behind our economy is extreme adoration. An attempt to increase status or lineage to decrease the harshness of his environment and it is this system that creates the value on money. Remember, this is merely what we as a people create and do in our world. It is not so correct to feel like we are powerless to create a different future for ourselves. We intricately engrained ourselves so deep into other people that we can’t change unless everyone does. But perhaps that rises up other questions. It is our world that we create; it is not that I think that I am better, but merely that I believe that our species could do better. The consistent and regular patterns of life and our reasons for them cannot mean that it is the best way of thinking. We should learn from our experience to nature and come to a better system of balanced equilibrium to match our ingenuity and mind for invention.
Liquid Thoughts
Andy Valenzuela
No comments:
Post a Comment