The entire journey of mankind is bizarre. I remember a teacher drawing a line on the blackboard and then the last tiny snippet of that line was recorded human history. The rest was humanity’s entire existence on this planet in total. What was it that made us leap from clever apes to technologically advanced? How many amazing things did humans achieve before the recorded word. Did we achieve anything at all or did we just live in constant survival mode?
I mean, the obvious answer is the invention of agriculture, of which bread is a part of, but I’m still so incredibly fascinated by the insane speed we evolved as species from then on. I could read all the books about it and have all the answers and still be cemetery amazed and in awe at how we got to this point. It’s stuff like this that makes me understand why some people think there is a higher power out there that makes decisions for all of us. Because to have this type of stuff happen organically or by chance is just too weird. It feels better and more simple to just say that some god did it.
Friggin bread, man. I can be impressed with us genetically manipulating plants and animals to become part of our diet, but to pluck a fruit or kill an animal and then roast them or eat them raw or make a juice or something other, that is still nowhere close to the same wtf as the creation of bread. At least not for me haha.
Yeah, I don’t think a lot of folks really appreciate how absolutely insane modern life is compared antiquity
The entire journey of mankind is bizarre. I remember a teacher drawing a line on the blackboard and then the last tiny snippet of that line was recorded human history. The rest was humanity’s entire existence on this planet in total. What was it that made us leap from clever apes to technologically advanced? How many amazing things did humans achieve before the recorded word. Did we achieve anything at all or did we just live in constant survival mode?
I mean, the obvious answer is the invention of agriculture, of which bread is a part of, but I’m still so incredibly fascinated by the insane speed we evolved as species from then on. I could read all the books about it and have all the answers and still be cemetery amazed and in awe at how we got to this point. It’s stuff like this that makes me understand why some people think there is a higher power out there that makes decisions for all of us. Because to have this type of stuff happen organically or by chance is just too weird. It feels better and more simple to just say that some god did it.
Friggin bread, man. I can be impressed with us genetically manipulating plants and animals to become part of our diet, but to pluck a fruit or kill an animal and then roast them or eat them raw or make a juice or something other, that is still nowhere close to the same wtf as the creation of bread. At least not for me haha.