If you don't take anything else
away from these, my Random Notes, I want you to wrap
your mind around this idea.
We have developed our society to
a fever pitch. Our economy is blazing and our
technology reinvents itself everty day. This is all
good but it's also quite Unnecessary. Everything that
we do is built around the simple need "to catch
a rabbit"
We all need to eat. Men used to
be nomads, and follow the rabbit wherever it went, so
that they would always be near the food. They soon
discovered that some men were better at catching the
rabbit, while other men were better at making the
tools and weapons used to catch them. It made more
sense for the good hunter to catch 2 rabbits and
trade one for the superior tools.
Once this kind of trading caught
on. we built on the concept, over and over again.
Now, instead of trading a rabbit for goods, we work
for a medium of exchange with which to buy the
rabbit. We have to work all day to earn the money and
the trappings that support the gathering of moneies.
We need a car, to get to our jobs. We need a house
where we can keep our stuff, while we are out
working. But what it still comes down to in the final
analysis, is a design to put a rabbit on the table.
So we end up working all day,
trying to earn enough money to support our eating
habits, when we could probably just take an hour or
two every day to catch a rabbit (or something), and
have the rest of the day to watch Football. |
