Human, Smash! - The core of our existance
Out of all the species that ever existed on Earth we are the most vulnerable one. We lack of claws and fangs, we cannot run very fast neither climb very well. There's only one thing that made us survive: Our brain, and the technologies that come with it.
Somewhere in northern Israel 350000 years ago, a group of hominids gathered like every night watching the elder perform magic.
Bashing a piece of flint against another rock, luminous particles fly over some tinder and dead leaves to make fire. Some kind of animal, god or spirit that kept them warm, safe during the nights and made food taste a lot better once you shared it with it (but beware of not sharing too much! It will spoil it!).
Like most human discoveries fire starting probably happened as an accident. Perhaps someone was making a new knife, spearhead or arrowhead... The right kind of rocks making funny sparks, the joy of finding that our and repeating it for fun... Until a spark flies too far into the bed of leaves and lights on fire.
It is not that humanoids did not know fire, we just did not know how to make fire.
We probably knew the benefits and how to handle it thanks to wildfires and thunderstorms. All we needed was an accident.
We are, noxious creatures by nature. Nearly parasitic, destructive. To understand how something "works" we rip it open. If something does not work, we bash it, hit it, shake it.
Think of any invention, look at anything around you. You can be sure that before it was fitted for civilians, the same object/material was used for more bellicose purposes.
If you consider that, now you can understand why many children LOVE to disassemble things even when they do know that they wont be able to assemble them back! (I still owe a new egg laying toy chicken to my sister... It was a clockwork machine!).
We break things and create with destruction as thumb rule
Human Smash!
350000 years later, several generations after that... Surviving the Ice age and all the things nature had to throw at us... We are still standing. Not because of our brawl but because of our brain.
Bashing stuff, breaking stuff is a multidisciplinary technique that can be seen in several situations.
Cracking, hacking, vivisections, dissections, autopsies...
We are so good smashing stuff that we've reached the excel point that we are aware of: We smash particles.
Smashing two rocks together to make new and finer arrowheads was not enough (we were so good at it that some stone age knifes are sharper than modern scalpels).
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We miniaturized the process to an unimaginable level in the moment this technique was invented (At some Sanskrit scriptures there's a mention of "the matter that composes matter", but that's for another article).
Thanks to this refining, today, several ideas that were nothing else but fancy theories are now a measurable FACT.
From bashing two rocks to the Higgs Boson. Our brain is an amazing creator, and technologies our tool. A rather destructive, yet productive technique.
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Do you know that knowledge, has the same root as science, scier/scio. It means to cut, divide, split. :) That is why words reflect reality for the most part, because we are trying to uncover what is in reality, and that requires differentiating, discriminating, judging, and splitting things up to find out what is inside to gain more knowledge.
This also plays into the mindset of the pseudo-"spiritual" "New Agers" who denigrate knowledge, and learning, and thinking, because for them, they are all absorbed into this "oneness" idea pervading their whole consciousness that it distorts reality. So dividing things, is "bad". Be "one" with everything, you are already everything, you already know everything, all you have to do is "Remember"... LMAO
Ueah, from time to time I read that sort of bullshit to cheer me up. It is better than the last page of newspapers!
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Wow! Thanks Renz! Sorry I missed this earlier I think maybe I am going to need to put it a ticker for these tags to watch for new posts :) Anyway thank you for the contribution bro!
Amazing, I got FEEDBACK!
Thanks ray. Tho I'll be taking a break this week, you know, holidays and spending a few hours typing for a couple of cents make no sense :p
But, yeah, you'd do good in keeping a trigger event for at least the "science" tag (but beware, there's a rather "famous" writer that all that does is revamp SciMag articles... lol).