The wheels of progress
May 26th, 2009 | Published in Uncategorized
It seems that most times I start talking to people about where our evolutionary path is possibly leading us – well at least where I suspect it’s leading us, I wind up in one argument or another – usually something to do with
The perception of who we are – but based entirely on sentiment
One form of Religion or another
How we will revert to a nicer older version of ourselves ( which I can’t find any evidence to support)
when I read things like this in the NY times – it supports my theory to some extent – I wrote about it a month or so ago.
I never want to get into the ethical discussion of is it “good” or “bad” – I don’t think it’s a case of ethics – it’s a case of evolution – moving from one state to another to another to another – and as nothing can happen without cause and effect it seems to me entirely logical – it’s not a good or bad argument that flies have the eyes that they do, or that fish have gills or that humans are intrinsically linked to technology. It would appear that we have as little control over our evolutionary destiny as anything else – if not we would consciously STOP everything right now – which is unlikely – I would imagine impossible – we can’t unlearn all that we know anymore than a bird can forget how to flap it’s wings.
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