In this diary I am looking at the rapid increase of technologies, and new chemicals in our daily lives. How this can cause problems and changes for humanity as a whole, and how as a whole it is not thought about nearly enough. Once again I am trying to write a series of diaries looking at things from an intuitive perspective. I believe working with an intuitive framework allows the thoughts to travel to the greatest number of people. They don't have to understand scientific jargon for the most part, or if they do it is fairly simple stuff. So with that I will begin to explain my thoughts on the world as of now.
I will do my absolute best to do things as chronologically as possible.
Human beings have developed on this Earth to accommodate many natural settings. Our brains developed under a group mind set, we were either tribal, or in small groups, and sometimes even in cities. Pre writing we developed under an oral tradition, which conditioned our ability to remember and we learned to pass down information from generation to generation, and a sense of history formed. Many other practices and thought processes became naturalized into human life. As new technologies filtered in slowly those practices and thought processes adapted to accommodate the technologies.
At the very same time our bodies were developing according to climate and need. We may be taller, shorter, have more red blood cells, higher lung capacity, or any of many other small adaptations according to where our ancestors lived for a very long time. This makes sense because a long period of time with the same problem should lead to a solution, even if that solution is biological.
Now for thousands of years our food has been primarily naturally grown ... what we would call organic. Our technology has developed at a relatively slow pace, big leaps coming sometimes as many as 1000 years apart. And the number of synthetic chemicals entering our body was 0 or very low.
Our system evolved in these systems, our species is like any other it adapts with time especially on the biological level. Our minds are based within a tribal/community system when we get back to the original hardwiring. It would seem intuitive that the state the species was in for the longest period of time, would be the state that our minds are hardwired for.
The point of all this preamble is that I believe that we add so much technology and chemicals to our lives at such a high rate of speed at this point in history that it is impossible to understand the effects. Each addition has its own impacts on society, which can not be isolated as a result of the sheer number of new things being added. If we were to even want to look at this scientifically we couldn't due to the lack of a control, so many things are added that it is hard to isolate the effects of one action or addition.
What are the dangers. It would seem there are many health risks that may be slow in development as a result of a constant bombardment of alien chemicals into the body. These chemicals can enter from the air we breathe or the food we eat, from the cleaning agents we touch or the medications we take. Scariest of all is that the testing of all these things in cross compatibility is nearly impossible ... what may be safe on its own may not be in conjunction with other chemicals. Also on the technology front, we have things that radically change the behavior of human beings and the interactions between them. For instance Television or Internet usage drastically change our habits. Think of multitude of ways communication has changed as a result of these technologies, to say that that does not have an impact on mental health at all would be crazy. It affects the way we think, the way we communicate, the way we relate to information, EVERYTHING. And yet people don't connect the emergence of so called new mental disorders with the rapid change of society, or the difference in the way children are raised as a result of these changes. Its crazy to me that people don't think that rapid change has a large effect on minds of people.
I think its important to look at what is being admitted into society, what is being admitted into our bodies, and important to look at what is being admitted into our homes. People seem to think that humanity is able to accept all changes instantaneously, and that rapid change is best for our culture, and humanity as a whole.
Yet when we look closer the numbers of new problems, social issues, and the isolation of individuals are all at least somewhat related to rapid change. The marginalization of the elderly as a result of them not being able to keep up is another issue. Consider the fact that in cultures past the elderly were looked to for wisdom and now its the youth, rapid change has winners and losers and in this case the old lost. In the case of the planet our propensity for change without extensive research is leading us towards a planet that will be unlivable for human beings. If the changes are all so great why would the culmination of them all be our extinction. Looking deeply for the good and bad of all new things is something that needs to happen else major major problems will continue to drive us as a species closer to the end of our time here.
All comments are welcome.