Our Bizarre Society of Intelligent Animals

 

 Depiction of the Western society vs. Eastern society. Food for thought- especially when you consider pros and cons on each side.

Society completely baffles me.  Sometimes I sit back and just watch the world whir past.  Everyone has something so important to attend to.  People are in such a hurry: they drive like maniacs, knock their shoulders into strangers on the street, and leave themselves an anxious wreck.  I cannot seem to understand how we managed to get ourselves into such a hurry.

But it’s more than that.  We spend an amazing number of hours working (or let me clarify, AT work, not necessarily working) every week, we complain endlessly about our jobs, but yet when we arrive home and find emptiness within ourselves still.

What is missing?  Everyone has a theory, but I personally think the complexity of what is missing is perhaps beyond the current reach of the human imagination.  Sometimes when I am most honest with myself I can feel that what’s missing for me and the answer is somewhat surprising: a deep connection to nature.  It surprises me not because the answer is foreign to me, but because I would not guess that connecting with nature might be the answer to my own hole in my existence.  I do also think that what is missing in society as a whole is much more complex.  It would take 10 human lifetimes to even sort through one of the missing factors.  I believe that doing so would be a monumental waste of time.   As I tend to be a bit more negative about the future of mankind and our society as a whole. I believe we have become so utterly individualistic in nature, that we should continue trying to form bonds because it is gratifying for humans to do so, but also accept the fact that this is our society now.  I also believe that we have destroyed our earth well and truly and probably do not have a hope in the world of helping it recover, especially as human numbers continue to exponentially increase.  

That being said, I still believe that each one of us should do our best to live a meaningful life and search for a feeling of contentedness.  Perhaps this is the best possible means of living out our individual existences.   After all, we are simply extremely intelligent animals who have built this bizarre society for ourselves.  Perhaps the lack of an overarching mastermind was always going to be the demise of such an abnormally intelligent group of animals.  You could write a book about this topic, but for now I will leave it at that.  But I challenge you to challenge my ideas, as always.