This word we call perspective.
In trying to put this in perspective, I draw these conclusions.
My grandfathers, grandfather.
Now I say this in perspective in the sense that we are built to think and act in the state of "now".
That's our chemistry and that of all living things.
We exist, in what is going on now.
That's pretty much perfect in that now is the most important thing to us and without thinking about it our innate instincts pretty much take care of what we need to know and do in this state of now.
Our parents and if we are lucky, our grandparents and even great grandparents, along with the rest of our family and extended family show us the way.
Just like it has been from the beginning.
The world didn't change that much and chances are that all of these generations I'm referring to all lived in the same proximity for hundreds and even thousands of years with little change.
Floods and forest fires and other natural elements, shifting populations accordingly.
So my dads grandpa was born somewhere in the neighborhood of 1850.
His grandpa or, my grandpa's grandpa, about the year 1775.
My dad's grandpa would have been in his late teens during the civil war.
My dads grandpa's grandpa, a teenager during the revolution when we declared our independence from England in 1776.
Hop skip another few generations and we are back to the time of Columbus and even before.
None of these people had electricity or indoor plumbing or running water or telephones or cars or anything else.
My grandfather didn't have any of these until his later years.
A hundred years ago hardly anybody had cars or electricity.
Twenty five years before that, nobody had cars or electricity.
We're not talking centuries here.
We're talking decades.
There wasn't any cars or electricity in your great grandfathers day.
Benjamin Franklin hadn't discovered electricity yet.
There were no cars.
The internal combustion engine hadn't been discovered yet.
The pony express brought their mail, probably once a month.
A fantastic breakthrough.
There were no horses on the north or south american continent just a few generations before that.
Everybody walked or ran.
There was something like a half a billion people on the planet earth.
Europe and asia had horses and gunpowder and were discovering steel during these times.
Hybrid plant life and the raising of food had begun some time earlier.
Ships were being built and wind sails powering them.
Exotic species of animal and plant life and the procuring of unclaimed lands had become a priority of the kings.
Prior to this, the world had been traveled little.
The kings armies were taking over all lands and the race was on.
Branches of the kingdom each seeking more and better and best of the unclaimed lands.
Our grandparents amongst them.
Long before, the kings armies had taken us over and now we were the kings men.
We, like other nations of men, had fought, but to no avail.
Thousands of murderous men on horseback with guns and swords are no match for us.
They raped and killed our women and children.
Taking all that was before them.
Being awarded by the king for their greatest of efforts for the throne.
The King, and The Kingdoms.
We.
I found it interesting that during World War II, in 1945, the Russians after and during the defeating of Hitler and Germany, went on to rape over a million german women during that time.
Typical of all nations at that time.
Kill and rape and plunder everything in sight.
This monster we call man..
The Civil War, Korea, Viet Nam.
Only the cameras and the instant recording of history and the consequences, stopping us now.
I say we haven't always been insane.
Just these last few hundreds of years and in a few cases, these last few thousands of years.
Mostly these last few hundred years,
The America's and Africa and Australia and many island nations, less that that.
1980 would have been about 100 years only since the indian wars in Oregon and Washington and Montana.
Dakota Territory just a few years before that.
No water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing.
1950-1970 in many parts of America.
Still today in probably 50% of Mexico and South America and Africa and other parts of the world.
Great living.
Electricity and plumbing don't make for a great life.
They take away from life.
In trying to put this in perspective, I draw these conclusions.
My grandfathers, grandfather.
Now I say this in perspective in the sense that we are built to think and act in the state of "now".
That's our chemistry and that of all living things.
We exist, in what is going on now.
That's pretty much perfect in that now is the most important thing to us and without thinking about it our innate instincts pretty much take care of what we need to know and do in this state of now.
Our parents and if we are lucky, our grandparents and even great grandparents, along with the rest of our family and extended family show us the way.
Just like it has been from the beginning.
The world didn't change that much and chances are that all of these generations I'm referring to all lived in the same proximity for hundreds and even thousands of years with little change.
Floods and forest fires and other natural elements, shifting populations accordingly.
So my dads grandpa was born somewhere in the neighborhood of 1850.
His grandpa or, my grandpa's grandpa, about the year 1775.
My dad's grandpa would have been in his late teens during the civil war.
My dads grandpa's grandpa, a teenager during the revolution when we declared our independence from England in 1776.
Hop skip another few generations and we are back to the time of Columbus and even before.
None of these people had electricity or indoor plumbing or running water or telephones or cars or anything else.
My grandfather didn't have any of these until his later years.
A hundred years ago hardly anybody had cars or electricity.
Twenty five years before that, nobody had cars or electricity.
We're not talking centuries here.
We're talking decades.
There wasn't any cars or electricity in your great grandfathers day.
Benjamin Franklin hadn't discovered electricity yet.
There were no cars.
The internal combustion engine hadn't been discovered yet.
The pony express brought their mail, probably once a month.
A fantastic breakthrough.
There were no horses on the north or south american continent just a few generations before that.
Everybody walked or ran.
There was something like a half a billion people on the planet earth.
Europe and asia had horses and gunpowder and were discovering steel during these times.
Hybrid plant life and the raising of food had begun some time earlier.
Ships were being built and wind sails powering them.
Exotic species of animal and plant life and the procuring of unclaimed lands had become a priority of the kings.
Prior to this, the world had been traveled little.
The kings armies were taking over all lands and the race was on.
Branches of the kingdom each seeking more and better and best of the unclaimed lands.
Our grandparents amongst them.
Long before, the kings armies had taken us over and now we were the kings men.
We, like other nations of men, had fought, but to no avail.
Thousands of murderous men on horseback with guns and swords are no match for us.
They raped and killed our women and children.
Taking all that was before them.
Being awarded by the king for their greatest of efforts for the throne.
The King, and The Kingdoms.
We.
I found it interesting that during World War II, in 1945, the Russians after and during the defeating of Hitler and Germany, went on to rape over a million german women during that time.
Typical of all nations at that time.
Kill and rape and plunder everything in sight.
This monster we call man..
The Civil War, Korea, Viet Nam.
Only the cameras and the instant recording of history and the consequences, stopping us now.
I say we haven't always been insane.
Just these last few hundreds of years and in a few cases, these last few thousands of years.
Mostly these last few hundred years,
The America's and Africa and Australia and many island nations, less that that.
1980 would have been about 100 years only since the indian wars in Oregon and Washington and Montana.
Dakota Territory just a few years before that.
No water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing.
1950-1970 in many parts of America.
Still today in probably 50% of Mexico and South America and Africa and other parts of the world.
Great living.
Electricity and plumbing don't make for a great life.
They take away from life.
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