Evolution
The Next Step in Human Evolution
What do you do when you see something you don't like?
What do you do when the light is too bright?
Just close your eyes.
It takes no effort, simply a small movement of muscle.
What can you do when you hear something you don't like?
What can you do when the noise is too loud?
What can you do when you just need to relax your mind?
Nothing.
Fingers in your ears?
Try doing that for hours at a time.
Ear plugs?
They don't really work that well.
No.
Evolution of the human body has failed to keep up with the more rapid evolution of modern 'civilisation'...
100 years ago building a house a few feet from your neighbour was not that big of a deal, noise wise.
Nowadays the building trend of urbanisation and mass housing continues - but in a new world.
Everybody has access to some kind of speakers, Hi-Fi systems, Sub-woofers, and the TV Home Theater surround sound experience - and too few of them care to use earphones.
Thanks to technology, and outdated urban planning methods, every bozo is now capable of reaching their maximum bozo potential - and we still build houses next door to each other!
I don't see this changing in the near future, but it is maddening that the place you call home, the only 'sanctuary' you have in this world, the only place you can retreat to for isolation, is constantly invaded and overwhelmed by throbbing beats and murmuring bass lines (not to mention the mindless barks and growls of dogs and their useless challenges to every move).
What can be done?
Moving home takes a lot of money, taking pot luck that the new neighbourhood isn't just the same as the last - or worse - and fleeing to the 'peaceful' countryside means isolation from all the other benefits of modern society.
No, I see a different solution in the future of our 'civilised' human race.
We just have to evolve some kind of muscle or cartlidge type 'latch' in our inner ear - to disconnect the ear drum at will with a simple conscious twitch.
As easy as closing our eyes.
If all those suffering mental misery in their life, from the sonic invasions of modern urban living, would put their minds to such a thing then I think somehow evolution would catch on - and our descendants can live in peace...
- despite 'civilisation'.
Yay!
What do you do when you see something you don't like?
What do you do when the light is too bright?
Just close your eyes.
It takes no effort, simply a small movement of muscle.
What can you do when you hear something you don't like?
What can you do when the noise is too loud?
What can you do when you just need to relax your mind?
Nothing.
Fingers in your ears?
Try doing that for hours at a time.
Ear plugs?
They don't really work that well.
No.
Evolution of the human body has failed to keep up with the more rapid evolution of modern 'civilisation'...
100 years ago building a house a few feet from your neighbour was not that big of a deal, noise wise.
Nowadays the building trend of urbanisation and mass housing continues - but in a new world.
Everybody has access to some kind of speakers, Hi-Fi systems, Sub-woofers, and the TV Home Theater surround sound experience - and too few of them care to use earphones.
Thanks to technology, and outdated urban planning methods, every bozo is now capable of reaching their maximum bozo potential - and we still build houses next door to each other!
I don't see this changing in the near future, but it is maddening that the place you call home, the only 'sanctuary' you have in this world, the only place you can retreat to for isolation, is constantly invaded and overwhelmed by throbbing beats and murmuring bass lines (not to mention the mindless barks and growls of dogs and their useless challenges to every move).
What can be done?
Moving home takes a lot of money, taking pot luck that the new neighbourhood isn't just the same as the last - or worse - and fleeing to the 'peaceful' countryside means isolation from all the other benefits of modern society.
No, I see a different solution in the future of our 'civilised' human race.
We just have to evolve some kind of muscle or cartlidge type 'latch' in our inner ear - to disconnect the ear drum at will with a simple conscious twitch.
As easy as closing our eyes.
If all those suffering mental misery in their life, from the sonic invasions of modern urban living, would put their minds to such a thing then I think somehow evolution would catch on - and our descendants can live in peace...
- despite 'civilisation'.
Yay!
posted by SpaceMonk at 3/12/2006 02:27:00 pm
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