I believe most of us, if pressed, would admit that when it comes down to it we are not really that advanced. Sure, we try to fool ourselves with our flashing shoes and our cafe au laits, but at the core of our beings we are nothing more than primitive hunter/gatherers wired to discover and take and search and kill.
Lookit, How much time do you spend in any video game searching around for something to fight? Most of the time! That is the game! Unless the game is a game where you go around trying to find stuff to COLLECT and USE stuff! They have whole games now where the point is to “gather” things for you to use. We relax by being hunter-gatherers in make believe land.
And look at the supermarket. Which supermarket does everyone like to go to? The one that looks like people have been there again and again with a whole lot of products missing off the shelves or the new store where the shelves are practically overflowing with more goodies than anyone could ever afford and the entire facility looks like no other human has been there before? Of course everyone prefers to go to the supermarket that reminds them of a lush virgin grove of berries filled with fruit ripe for the picking, rather than the well worked and heavily reduced cluster of half dead trees. We even tend to buy more if we see plenty of stuff all around us, probably so that the stuff we bought (whether it be mangoes, socks, ‘59 Chevy’s, or what have you) doesn’t rot away and we tend to leave the last items on the shelf or in the pizza box so that perhaps it can drop and grow some more of itself.
Similarly, is there anyone who has an easy time waking up on a rainy day? No, of course not. Why? Because rain in the morning is God’s way of saying “Stay home today. Nothing is going to happen. All of the animal’s are inside waiting to be hunted tomorrow and all of the delicious plants will happily wait till tomorrow to be picked.”
Now none of this is anything to be ashamed of. No! In fact I believe we should embrace this fact and bend it to our uses. For example:
We could start tying cherries and mushrooms to our keys so when we lose our jingly-jangly-ding-dang-doodly keys, we will have a natural (stimulant free) stimulus to get our “retracing my steps to the valuable bush and other things” part of our minds to get into gear and help us find our keys and mushrooms.
We also could teach children TO run all over the place, thus creating a a cheap and efficient courier service. People who enjoy running down and killing animals would make great couriers. We’d simply need to tell them that they are chasing down a very distant and delicious beast, a beast that’ll be all sorts of fun to spear and roast once they chase down the address they’d been given. Like perhaps a wildebeest.
We could also….
Hmmmmmm….
I can’t think of anything else off of the top of my head that our desire to hunt and gather could be redirected towards. Maybe sorting stuff?
But I know this! Hunter-gatherers are not worried about how things they write end, because most of them are illiterate.
WAIT!!! Obviously one other thing that a hunter-gatherer would be good at is spreading illiteracy! Why, I’ll bet that reducing large segments of our population to a subsistence survival economy will help stamp out the ability to read as fast as television and the internet combined! And when that happens our rightful leader can lead the sheeple wherever we want them to go.
How’s that for a job!

-Bob

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