Have we evolved:

It becomes more and more clear, every passing day, we just don’t care anymore. We watch scratchy electronic screens everyday of our life and eat dump-truck loads of fast food each year. So much life is passing by our pale, chubby faces and we are oblivious to what we are missing. In terms of living out a cerebrally engaged life, have we evolved?

I am not talking about going out and doing something crazy, though if you do, all the more power to you. What I don’t understand is why we don’t read, we don’t think and we don’t recognize reality? We eat and stare, eat and stare.

I wonder, as a society, what is it that drives us to delve deeper and deeper into that humiliation filled gallon of creamy, ice-cold stupidity?

Dostoevsky’s misguided and dramatic Dmitri Karamazov spoke the appropriate words for us all when he said, “I love the shame of depravity…!”

As Americans, we love many things, particularly ourselves. We love to consume, we love the dulled edges of escapism and we love to pull from the gravity of our life. We love the shame of lowering ourselves into the sewage of cerebral baseness. It is this intellectual apathy of America that sticks to the neck of progress like a sticky salty sweat.

It‘s this critical lack of introspection and examination that has led us to this point.

A developed addiction to things that are antithetical to the qualifiers for “good living” has mutated our lives. The cathartic nipple of the boob tube lactates the brain numbing milk of complacency. Blindly following religion from childhood without thinking why your religion is great and valid appeals precisely to this form of intellectual depravity. Think of how many Christians you know who have never read the bible. How the hell can that happen?

People firmly walk into the polling booth without knowing
anything of their party’s opposition. There are people who are livid about the conflict in the Middle East. They preach about death and intolerance. They regale in the killings of Arabs and Muslims without knowing why the people were executed.
It is a given that this behavior is representative of society in general. People will be people and stupidity holds tight to their weaknesses. What inspires concern is how broad a stroke stupidity paints its art from sea to shining sea. America today is a grand canvas for such an art.

At the point when people wean themselves from cable television, fast food and shopping, America will see a positive step taken forward. Stick your nose in a classic book and breathe in the concepts. Feel the fibrous aesthetics of reality on each page.

So, in terms of living a cerebrally engaged life, have we evolved?

Verdict: No so much, but we can only go so far down the monkey trail.

BOB BEERS
Opinion Editor

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