Thoughts of the day.

I used to get caught up in political arguments, I used to think that my opinion was worth something, I used to think that I knew how everything was and why, now I realise that the longer I live the less I know. I've never really thought about evolution in the right way, I've read quite a bit about evolution of earth and us (the cancer that threatens it) , but I've always read in a way that made me think that 'evolution' was a thing of the past- something that had 'happened' . I have now come to realise that evolution is still going on, it never stops, not only with the earth (changing climate -not all mans doing) but also our own human evolution. We look at 'evolution' as if it will always be a positive outcome, but will it ? We humans seem to be changing at a rate the is too fast for our brains to adapt to, fast becoming Homo Digitalis and 'cross breeding' Homo Consumentis. The phenomena of 'burn outs' seems to prove this very po...

I often think of the way we are evolving. One of the things that makes me sit up and stare, is the way we (don't) interact. Last weekend I was in Utrecht for the Comedy festival, a nice Town, the typical Dutch streets. There is something about being in another town that makes a person notice more than when walking the streets of their own neighborhood, and so it was that I noticed the interaction on the busy square where I sat to have lunch at a Café. I was sat at a table, alone, waiting for my toasted sandwich and coffee to be served, looking around I noticed how many people were totally unaware of their surroundings or other people. There were a few other tables like mine where one person was sat but four people could easily sit , Saturday afternoons are busy and there were people looking for places to sit, a few shed glances toward the tables where only one person was sat, but neither they or the person at the table talked or asked the question about whether they would like to...