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Do you think it would make a difference:
A. If there IS a purpose to our existence?
B. If we knew what that purpose is?
What if the answer to question A, were "Yes"?
And what if the answer to question B were, "We might"?
What if we were to find out that the vast majority of human endeavor has been a sidetrack, a distraction, a goose chase?
What if our true purpose is at odds with how most humans are spending their lives? Hopefully, we can explore this possibility.
What IF..our only purpose here was to witness this universe thing and what it has done? What if we are organisms produced by the universe for the express purpose of appreciating what it has accomplished, and admiring what it would have continued to accomplish, had we not meddled so hard?
Let's set our love of technology, society's benefits and our aversion to wet, cold, hungry and dirty aside, so as to take a trip down another timeline:
Imagine that we knew we had a duty (sort of like the crew of the Starship Enterprise) to witness, without interfering? What if our Prime Directive is to allow the evolutionary process to continue in whatever direction it so chooses, without our intervention?
Imagine a world where we STILL felt the need to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves, but insisted that we could only improve our situation if it wouldn't destroy something else that the universe was doing? What if our footprints were meant to be light the entire time? What if our eyes were made, not to obsess on what WE'VE made, but on the universe around us..and what IT'S made..including one of it's most marvelous creations: humans.
Please, ponder for a moment. Try to imagine what a society like that might be like. How would it have evolved over these thousands of years? (How close were indigenous peoples to that ideal? That's a thunker, huh?)
Perhaps the ancients weren't all that superstitious? Maybe millennia of observation and societal failure had led them to somewhat strange rules which, while performing little physical function, provided guidance away from self, fostered humility and kept our egos in check? Maybe, as with pure religion, our superstitions and myths were there to remind us that we are only the mortal servants of much larger forces with inconceivable lifespans, and an unknowable shape to sculpt in space time. Imagine that.
Thanks for reading.
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