Cultivating.
Since we started doing this, reminding our hunter-gatherers periods, we started cooperating in a maximum amazing way. It's a considerable theory to think that cultivation (agriculture) brought our civilization to what it is nowadays. (Check out the works of Jared Diamond). It even meant something really important for property!! (work and acquisition of the worked-object)
But right now I just want to bring the cultivating term to a metaphorical sense that we've been listening from our parents, people, religion (Check this) (Yep, cause and effect again people) etc. The cultivation of our minds, our dreams, our actions and our social interactions. All of these we cultivate now, we have evolved not only to cultivate the food that will keep us alive, but we have a mind in which we can cultivate ideas, plans. We also have language (cultural&rational cultivation of words in a collaborative canvas) and emotions, and we cultivate our relations with other humans. We want that social experience.
This cultivation metaphor would works so well!! IT'S SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL.
Cultivating is not the same thing that seeing seeds lying on the edge of the road. (remember the work and property thing)( it's not just a matter fucking chance!!! Though it plays an important part too.)
Seeds work in unpredictable ways. ( life, man)
Cultivating is not the same thing than collecting a bunch of seeds. (potential and results are not the same shit)
Cultivating with others make bigger results. (Machines are also the result of a collaboration of cultivated ideas)
Not all seeds are beans so not everything grows in a week. (Patience. The universe knows I need to work this thing out)
Choosing only one type of seed will obviously return the same fruit. BUT failure doesn't necessarily mean that the seed is "bad/wrong" it can be the ground it is being sowed in.)
Plants fucking die. (life, man)
Really important and related with first statement: cultivation needs work. And some specific work sometimes.
Beware of worms.
Etc. You can continue with other cool connections to the metaphor. I just loved it.
Since we started doing this, reminding our hunter-gatherers periods, we started cooperating in a maximum amazing way. It's a considerable theory to think that cultivation (agriculture) brought our civilization to what it is nowadays. (Check out the works of Jared Diamond). It even meant something really important for property!! (work and acquisition of the worked-object)
But right now I just want to bring the cultivating term to a metaphorical sense that we've been listening from our parents, people, religion (Check this) (Yep, cause and effect again people) etc. The cultivation of our minds, our dreams, our actions and our social interactions. All of these we cultivate now, we have evolved not only to cultivate the food that will keep us alive, but we have a mind in which we can cultivate ideas, plans. We also have language (cultural&rational cultivation of words in a collaborative canvas) and emotions, and we cultivate our relations with other humans. We want that social experience.
This cultivation metaphor would works so well!! IT'S SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL.
Cultivating is not the same thing that seeing seeds lying on the edge of the road. (remember the work and property thing)( it's not just a matter fucking chance!!! Though it plays an important part too.)
Seeds work in unpredictable ways. ( life, man)
Cultivating is not the same thing than collecting a bunch of seeds. (potential and results are not the same shit)
Cultivating with others make bigger results. (Machines are also the result of a collaboration of cultivated ideas)
Not all seeds are beans so not everything grows in a week. (Patience. The universe knows I need to work this thing out)
Choosing only one type of seed will obviously return the same fruit. BUT failure doesn't necessarily mean that the seed is "bad/wrong" it can be the ground it is being sowed in.)
Plants fucking die. (life, man)
Really important and related with first statement: cultivation needs work. And some specific work sometimes.
Beware of worms.
Etc. You can continue with other cool connections to the metaphor. I just loved it.