I was brushing my teeth ten minutes ago when I had a thought. How did primitive humans in the past survive without toothpaste, without specialized facial foams, vitamin pills, hair grooming products? Were their teeth rotting, their face covered in acne, their hair in a mess?
I wonder how it would be like to live in a world without currency, without commercialized products, without cars, internet and cell phones? We call it progress, but is it really? With the advent of penicillin, the average life expectancy of mankind was greatly increased from a mere age of 30 plus to 70-80 plus. Yet, if we stop to think, mother nature had other ways of getting back at us. Along came cancer, Alzheimer's, stroke, heart attacks, senile dementia and all other age-implicated diseases.
We came up with industralized crop cultivation, cars and the use of chemical fertilizers to increase our crop yield, and we celebrate our brilliance and "development", but are we truly developing, or are we just taking a step closer to our demise? What with pollution, the ozone layer thinning, the ice caps melting, and the people being plagued by war, by their financial status, by their lack of ability to find a partner, by lack of health due to the excessive artificial chemicals in our diets, wouldn't it be better to go back to how we were before? Where trade was barter, where people don't emphasize on appearances to get a partner, where life was simple.
People always say we're evolving for the better, but I just think that life is more complicated these days, with so many factors that can cause our death, cause misery and depression. Maybe we really are too smart for our own good. If we think about it, there are so many things in the current society that are unnecessary: plastic surgery (as if it would be passed on to your offspring), celebrities, trash magazines (who cares about the celebs' personal lives?), country clubs (just to make the poor feel inadequate), and the rich having a couple of houses too many (their "summer" houses), where homeless people are dying on the streets.
And yet we call ourselves a more humanized society than back in the primitive age. Eh hem.
4 comments:
Yes... In fact, the happiest people are the simplest people. Warren Buffet has got all the money in the world, yet lives humbly. ALl this for a reason. They say, a rich person doesn't have to have lots of money, he just needs to know how to be happy.
Contradicting. Yes.
For the better? Maybe..
Remember an adage said by a very smart man:
Contentment is not happiness, and happiness is an emotion, not a state of mind.
A smart man may not be a happy man.
Post a Comment