I told myself I wasn't going to blog today and that I would mull things over and get a plan set out before I posted this.
but with the help of some negative thoughts, provoking art, a couple Smirnoffs, and being bored at 1 A.M. what the hey why not.
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There are several problems with Humans in general. Humans fail to mesh with any aspect of nature, society, and religious law. Before I can even go into those problems the Human body is a flawed system. My reasoning behind this is our lack of efficiency. For a second lets consider you went into a dark room and wanted to turn on the light, the light refused to come on saying it was tired... This is exactly how the Human body works, at best we need 1/3 of our time to be completely inactive to reboot our internal system. If you get an average of 8 hrs. per night combined with the average life span in US is 77.8 years, meaning you spend 25.9 years asleep. Research also supports that you forget 90% of your dreams after being awake for 10 minutes. Should you some how remember all of your dreams at 90% you would only have 2.5 years of memories, not a fair trade in my eyes. I've always wanted to develop insomnia to get an idea of what it was like to be Da Vinci who trained himself to sleep only in two hour shifts throughout the day to maximize his performance. Now that the basics fault of the Human body has been explained. lets move onto our impact with our families and communities.
Society:
Humans can't get along. To all of the Lets-end-world-hunger,-and-make-peace-supporters, more power to you, but know it's useless. Reasoning behind this is because we are born seeking space. territory is a born trait that we all must have. we've all had those days where we feel underwater and need to escape and get out of our norm. granted our territory can shrink and grow according to our up bringing. and with a limited amount of space on the Earth, we as humans will fight, buy, or steal or territory in order to secure our personal feelings of contentment. Fighting, Buying, and Stealing are all aggressive forms of trade. there are some that say "we can trade, or give to them instead". (paraphrased) they are idiots. trading would mean that we would give something up which is contrary to what our mind wants which is everything, that thought process lead to the word greed, a fun word. I'm not even going to go into giving, because again it's counter productive to our nature. Now for families, families can't get along because both alpha units are expecting the other to give into their life style, leaving the pair at an impasse. children are even worse. they have no input yet cipher the supplies of the family and when they are able to contribute to the family, it's been deemed by our society that they are adults and it's time for them to move out and start their own lives. lets recap. our society is backwards. everything we promote is counter productive, examples are the institution of the family, charity, and corporate america. why then do we act this way. i'll get to that, but first...
Nature:
Human's impact on the Earth is greater than all other creatures combined throughout all time, thus far. The Partula Rosea Snail needs only 10 square ft to survive, not one single snail but their entire population, yet the last remaining 200 are in a Zoo as an effort to save them. why are there so few, Humans. matter a fact, look at any example of a dying species and at the core you will see human impact. Tigers hunted for fur, elephants for ivory, bees because they sting you. those are just three, and the list for the endangered species is more than 50,000.. I explain all of that to say this, our lack of seeing the natural world in the way it curves, grows, changes, dies, and is reborn, has led us to build entire cities that contradict the flow on our own planet. I don't know of any other species that is so self destructive as ours. instead of cutting down trees, why not integrate entire communities into forests, learning it's habitat, and working with the natural flow of nature. We call things like tsunamis, and Earthquakes disasters, when in fact they are the Earth normally, not random occurrences or bad luck. working with the natural landscape can prevent a lot of lose durning these feats of strength the Earth puts out. Why again do we as Humans do this? try to defy nature. I'll explain later, But first.
Religion:
Humans are selfish. look at all most any form of religion and you will see a desire for self rewarding. christians ask yourself this, if God had not promised or even mentioned a Heaven and said you will all suffer Hell forever. what then? would you still carryout your commandments? or do you behave in such a way only because you see a deposit in your account worth one eternal life, of pleasure. Humans are selfish, they want, and want, and want. ask a homeless man what he wants, money. ask a man who has money what he wants, happiness. ask a mediocre man what he wants, the new iPhone. no one will say, to be closer with God, why? cause we all can be closer to God therefore it loses it's appeal. you don't know what you had till you lose it, I'm glad God gives second chances, because if it didn't we wouldn't have even made it out of the garden before he wiped us off the chats for good. rather every person all 7 billion of us are uniquely crafted and looked after, for what. to be replaced by an idol, someone else getting the glory. our times may not have gold calves but we have facebook, TV, self pride, and envy. why can't we simply devote our lives to the one who had the power to give us life in the first place?
Human Error:
It's the number one cause of plane crashes, and everything else in our lives. Humans are not able to make a single perfect thing, nothing. When looking at plans for a... lets say a lightbulb, you have a thing called tolerance. it's the degree in which you need to get the accuracy correct. if it says you can't be more that plus or minus .3 degrees off on the roundness of glass bulb than you can't be more than .3 degrees off. Human Error is why we can't be exact every single time. as humans we try to cover our tracks by adding new words to describe Human Error my favorite is probability. To me it means we can't get it right every time so we just put the number of times we got the correct answer and throw a ten under it. matter a fact put that in the commercial too... consumers will love that fun fact.
Human Creativity:
However we have been blessed with minds that are able to connect, and emphize with anything possible, it's why we have animals, it's why we smile, it's why we sing. across the world Artists have taken a step back from this world and looked at the Human race as a timeline, seeing both our beginning, present, and future. many of the work below has been inspired first by nature, or feelings, then secondly designed so that the human element interacts with it, instead of destroying it.
Look how the home takes on the features of it's surroundings, not conflicting with nature.
The designer didn't care about plants over growing the house, because overgrowth is a sign of acceptance. He didn't include a yard, that was void of natural life, and a thing called grass.
After designing how it interacts with nature, the designer finds space for humans and make it more appealing than houses we have now, because the room has the natural energy of the forest embedded in the design of the building.
This Artist created concrete molds of real people.
The Artist then has them placed under water where corral will settle on them making his artwork a rebuilt habit for millions of fish, and other sea creatures. supporting life, and encouraging interaction will the animals of the Earth.
As you can see this is not something that takes hundreds of years to occur. the immediate benefits makes this one of my favorite pieces.
This is an Artist who brings life to humans trash and one day want's to fill the beaches with his creatures.
In closing I have this to say, although Humans are the sole reason for everything bad in every aspect of life, though creativity and emotional connections we are the able to balance the good and the bad, and look towards the future where there is not urban and rural, or forest land and developed land, and even blending of poor, and rich where our compassion battles are inner instinct and shows mercy on those who daily go without.
Cautiously Optimistic,
Kyle
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