01-30-2018, 10:51 AM
I think we expect too much from this life. Maybe it's because we have such and easy time as compared to a few hundred years ago. Having a life of leisure has made us slow witted and lazy. Having too much time on our hands for recreational pursuits can cripple the natural state of survival.
Most people simply exist and have forgotten what it was like when we needed to fight to survive day-to-day or year-to-year. Man has spent an eternity struggling to survive by attempting to control his environment: shelter, heat and food. Through evolution, we have managed to gain control of most of our lives by balancing our existence within the constraints of a sociological machine with defined parameters or "norms" from which we cooperatively work to exist.
This nice little balancing act allows us to complain about the price of milk or the fact that our coffee is too hot. Reality is much more difficult and I wonder about the survival of most of society if something truly bad happened. Many of the people I work with couldn't walk home if their lives depended on it.
Jus' sayin'...
Most people simply exist and have forgotten what it was like when we needed to fight to survive day-to-day or year-to-year. Man has spent an eternity struggling to survive by attempting to control his environment: shelter, heat and food. Through evolution, we have managed to gain control of most of our lives by balancing our existence within the constraints of a sociological machine with defined parameters or "norms" from which we cooperatively work to exist.
This nice little balancing act allows us to complain about the price of milk or the fact that our coffee is too hot. Reality is much more difficult and I wonder about the survival of most of society if something truly bad happened. Many of the people I work with couldn't walk home if their lives depended on it.
Jus' sayin'...