As quoted by Douglas Adams ‘life the universe and everything’
How do we realistically comprehend everyone’s perception of the world as once, we can’t it’s impossible, everybody thinks they are right as that is basic human independence. All the problems in the world, the politic economic and ‘great’ powers in the world smashing their heads together all trying to beat one another but for what, when you come to the final conclusion what will it achieve a sense of pride for that person? A sense of domination or a feeling of power? Well there we have our answer really, back to basics quite literally. All these feelings, power, domination pride etc have all existed since the start of the human race. If you think back to the very initial survival of our ancestors what were the things they needed and strived for? Food for their families, warmth for their children and the love for one another. In an ideal world isn’t that all we need. No. Apparently it is not, in order to survive we all suddenly need a gross materialistic world in which all we want is social status. In a sense to be better than the tribe in the next cave. Look around you everything you see is manufactured and unnecessary in relation to basic needs.
There is one sole emotion that has existed along side humans since time began, and it is one of the most important things that everybody wants, whether they admit it or not. Love. Doesn’t it get annoying when every song you hear on the radio is about love & relationships, but isn’t that because it’s the one thing everyone can relate to feel passionately about and therefore compose a song about? No one can explain it but it’s the thing that drives the population to grow; yet these materialistic things all seem more important. Life becomes a competition against not only one another but against one thing we cannot physically beat, which is time. Time is just a word to explain the movement of days into weeks, weeks into months and months into years. But how can we be sure that it even exists, sure we feel it passing by, but is that just because we know its there, how do you know that time is not standing still and that its just literally the earth moving round and round, time doesn’t need to be involved does it? Space has a different time continuum to Earth so doesn’t that mean that we could just be a window of one second in a vast existence and we just think its longer because we have a larger perception of time on Earth. There are just so many variable factors that become almost impossible to comprehend to come to any logical conclusion. That’s where our philosophers and scientists come in, to come up with something everyone else is too scared to think about.
Here our problems are still spinning round, nothing ever quite seems to fit, everyone searching for one answer to one simple problem, what’s life all about? Well if the question is simple why can the answer not be so? So lets start by defining the word life itself.
noun
1. the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
2. the sum of the distinguishing phenomena of organisms, esp. metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation to environment.
Well what does that mean, its not as helpful as first hoped, how about this one.
3. the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual:
A period of existence of an individuals life, well that makes sense I guess but its obviously what is contained within that existence which makes that life question we have so damned important. Is there this deep mystery into which we are all folded in, all these conspiracies that are supposedly imposing and controlling us. If we think right back to our prehistoric days when we weren’t as bright as we are now, but then again that’s also wrong maybe we were as bright but who says we needed all these clever explanations, lets just say we were happy with the way life was as simple human beings. If the question of life is so important to our sole existence then surely it hasn’t changed over time and it was still the same back then, and initially all the things that were important then are still important now, i.e. warmth love food and so forth. So maybe the answer to a simple question is actually simple, surely logic prevails that you cannot have a complex answer to a simple question. That’s just silly.
The Monty Python boys even had a crack at it, and the only conclusion they came up with at the end of a whole film was this:
“Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations”
At which point there does it mention anything materialistic? It doesn’t, and why not, because that would make it complicated. Simply we do not need materialism because thus it leads to greed, greed leads to selfishness and blindness. What we need is the world’s largest stop sign to be held up in front of the population so we can stop destroying which was once a simple land with simple needs and still is somewhere within us.
