Inspirational Writing Experiment Subject EVOLUTION

please note this was where I'd just sit and type my thoughts onto page without any editing at all. I did my best to not consciously think of what I was writing so I would not stop the flow or influence the content. I found it today in some writings and thought I would share it with you. I hope you find it interesting and if so maybe I will post more of what I found. Thank you for your time in reading it.

Anthropology can be related to the living of life through others and has a serious part to play in the establishment of the way science looks at modern day man. To understand the present, and to be able to visualise the future, one needs to have a clear understanding and appreciation of our past. This is where this particular branch of study will clearly lead us and perhaps cause a divide between many modern day scholars.

There are some who say that we can never be truly reliant on the things we find, as we are apt to piece together the facts in the way we wish to see them, and not as they were. There are others who say we need a basis of truth on which to build our assumptions, and then rightly or wrongly adapt them as more discoveries are made. Both lead to arguments, as is the want of science. No-one can seemingly ever be happy and there are detractors along any particular school of thought.

I rather believe that man has to understand where he has been to know where he is heading. Our journey is a long one, and is particular to each of us -no two paths are alike. But what we find in our existence is that others have trodden a similar route, and we should take an interest in what they have to say about it. In the case of those who have gone before us, they cannot always speak directly to us in their art and literature. We need to examine their lifestyles, their cultures and patterns of life to have a good understanding of what drove them, and ultimately what made them the people they were. So many cultures exist around the world now. In previous times, when world communication was harder there were more splinters of ethnic groups and minorities. Their diversification was immense, and unlike today where people had their thoughts and ways tend to merge with inter-racial and multi-cultural missing. There was less chance of such a dilution of all these beliefs and ways of life. Much has evolved in direct relation of course to the migratory pattern of our peoples. Along with this the scientific and medical advancements meant progression often come quickly and at a pace which was absorbed and perhaps a little too fast for many of those expected to digest this new found knowledge. The marvellous thing about humans is their fantastic adaptability. Their brains have this amazing resilience, they can take in so much and accept it readily if it is to their liking. Sometimes knowledge becomes comfort to them - at others, when the truth is less palatable, it becomes the opposite and extreme discomfort means to preserve the way they want to view their world, they are willing to push away truth and halt the flow of knowledge in fear of what it truly means they have or will need to become. So you see, this particular field of study has many scientific demons to face. Society is not comfortable with the pattern of it's progress when it all too readily reveals the sad repetition of our own species poor choices, and perhaps the all too prevalent examples of what that resulted in. But along with the hard lessons there are little gems of understanding to be gained. Man developed at a fantastic pace at certain stages of his evolution and these were generally when he was attuned to his neighbours and the surroundings. These "'spurts" of progress can be evidenced in the leaps of faith, the technological triumphs and the contentedness of the people as a whole and not just in the minorities of a group.

So perhaps we should applaud those who look to the better understanding of past cultures theories and living patterns. The way man was is what made us who we are today, and that present is already shaping our future.