The more we have....

[ki77en]

As I walked around in the parking lot on my break, I veered around a piece of trash and thought "what if I picked this one piece of garbage up and actually threw it away? Would anyone care - would the earth be any better if I did?" And as I continued on my walk, I thought about all the concrete laying there and all over the various parts of the

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Re: BUTT le

[jpzy]

I enjoyed how you went from littering and picking up trash, to the concrete jungles. What's the difference between a twinkie wrapper and a slab of concrete? I would imagine that the garbage we've created and deposited would not last nearly as long as the concrete infrastructure we've deviced to be more efficient.

I don't think I could believe this, "Humans once made great strides and wonderful evolutionary progress.". I don't see a place where humans have made great and wonderful strides in the evolutionary process. We've hunted other species to extinction, we've fought each other due to land, beliefs, and race, and continue to be complacent and wanting an easier solution to all problems in their life.

I guess we've developed a method of communication. I can see where our ability to create (grow, harvest, hunt) food was pivotal in our longevity as a species. But what else? Could the Sistine Chapel be considered a huge evolutionary stride? What about developing the IC? The discovery of Penicillin?

These are all very weak strides in evolution.

The power of humanity is, "the power of the whole working as one" but our scope of vision is too narrow to ever get everyone to see this point.

I guess this is why Imagine is such a great song.

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[ki77en]

Cute subject line.

I guess I spoke more inaccurately in reference to details, but I didn't include any of those details, either. Humans still do make evolutionary strides, but humanity as a whole has not. It can be sad to think about, but then I remember that things are neither wrong or right due to the nature of the objective universe. We are, as far as anyone has been able to prove, the only creatures that live subjectively and it tends to skew are perceptions to the point where we are more judgmental and bias to what we do or do not take in and I think that's what you're saying by our "scope of vision" being "too narrow".