Sometimes i wonder what would have happen to world if we dont have nothing to engage ourselves like a hobby and a religion, and nothing which keeps us from thinking like alcohol and a structure prescribed by society to fit it.
Surely, an idles man mind is a devils workshop and everything around us tries to make sure that it wont happen.
If those two factors are not present, what we would have done? Just work?
To satisfy " actual needs " we dont need much. A saint and a begger also surviving with minimum things. But they have religion or something to keep their mind occupied. Why do we need arts in the first place? They dont provide food,cloths are shelter. Why do we need others to survive? Why do we need to feel alive or achievements. Why do we have to make babies , knowing that they will die eventually. Why do we need shelter and clothes, knowing the early man and rest of the animal kingdom survived without them.
Why do we have think about others, make affords for their betterment,knowing the fact that they will also die.
Why do we have to watch tv serials and movies, or read fiction to feel how other ppl persons in those situations would feel, knowing that its not our lives.
Why do we have to crave for acceptance of others or even to laugh, which will not add anything extra to our lifestyle.
Why do we have to know the information of others business including celebrities, when we have little knowledge about ourselves.
Why do we have to judge others? Which will not bring us one more meal?
Why do we have take alcohol and drugs and forget our problems and then switch on tv to know about / feel problems of others?
Why cant we earn our meals, then sit idle till we are hungry like rest of the animals.
Is it because of love, or because its hardwired in our brains, or for entry pass to heaven?
From all the above i conclude that, i have become little cynical and need to do something to retain my smile.
2 comments:
little cynical.......you top the list of optimists.
One explanation the 'art' has been explained in a book The Mating Mind.
The one for altruism can be found in Richard Dawkins' books. He calls it a 'selfish gene' and there is a book by the name too.
The reasons for entertainment is somewhat similar to that of sleeping (and dreaming) : neural networks need to simulate some patterns so that they wouldn't become 'messy'.
The reasons for religion and judgmental thinking could be because we want some deterministic rules to understand the world around us. Good and bad things are merely the things we should strive to attain/keep and refrain from respectively.
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