Thursday, February 3, 2011

baobabs

I often find myself thinking about how horrible post-natal depression would be, but more than that (sorry very community channel of me) how awful it would be if there was nothing more than what we know. Humanity through the years has constantly been trying to better their current surroundings, through technology and transport and ways to efficiently go about our daily lives doing as little as possible. And yet, what if there was nowhere further to go? What if science didn't exist and fire could only be created by rubbing sticks together like a drummer who'd had one too many? What if there was no such thing as a circle, and nobody with the brain capacity to conjure up the idea of a circle, so wheels couldn't be invented? I have so much respect for those that got so entirely fed up with telegrams and watching the behinds of horses. Although you could probably fall back on how 'curiosity is a part of human nature' a large majority of the world could probably (and do) care less and if they stopped caring maybe the iPhone 4 would be the end of it. But of course, it's not. How frustrated would you be if you knew that there could be (and probably is) more but you couldn't find the means to prove that there was? I'd be shitting bricks.

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