Where does Love come from then, and at what point did evolution or natured decided it was good to keep around?. From an anthropological, evolution point of view, love is none-sense. It makes you dreamy, worried, and spaced out... Not very productive!. The "lovey" ones I bet, would be the first to die out in the field since they were singing in their minds... Love is not a device or the strongest or the fittest... Or is it?.
... Then... We go on to artists... Evolution?... Mmmh. Artist are hardly ever the athletic type. They tend to be somewhat shy, introvert in their ways, and with a "need" to express their ideas in quite impractical ways, for example painting, writing, singing, etc... What makes a bunch of humans get together and create a choir?. What "survival" feature draws them to do this, and why would an artist keep going in the "survival of the fittest" world?.
Sometimes great writers and musicians become so, because they are weak, un-athletic and even sick kids... Such "features" extract them from the games of their peers in the playground, and turns them into music, art, and this world that welcomes them and keeps offering them wonders. (That was kind of my case, if you were wondering).
So, in the gene-pool game... Why would and spaced out-minded make it?... No, really...
Things like this, and the existence of Chihuahua dogs, makes me have serious questions about evolution and the "survival of the fittest" idea.
Love does bring a higher meaning into our life... It brings a sense of transcendence and makes us greater than ourselves. Art, at the end, does kind of the same thing...
Tomás and I ended up talking about the need to transcend to feel greater than ourselves... Etc... All this are feelings and senses of knowledge and self that, at the end, I cannot justify from a practical point of view in terms of surviving in the jungle. This of course, leads us to eventually talk about Prometheo, the bringer of fire, Hermes and that Serpent that made Adam and Even taste knowledge... We end up talking about Magick and a "bringer" of light, we come up with God.
... And God... Well, that is quite another topic, maybe worth a dozen posts, and maybe too tiresome to discuss in general. Is God something we invented, and necessary as long as we don't have all the answers?. Is God there watching us, and indeed created us and love and such things to make the game of life all much more interesting?...
If God is just a human invention, then maybe so is love... Maybe love is just one invention like the wheel... Just much less practical.
At the end, love is one of the finest strongest drugs, with some of the sweetest "high" ecstatic states in our minds, and some of the most horrible and painful side effects. We suffer from it's withdrawal, and we quench our thrist for meaning on it's presence.. Love at the end may be pointless from an evolution point of view... Love may not have a practical reason in life... But it does indeed make life worth living now and then...
Only now and then...
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Mmm... you seem to be taking as a fact that athletic sporty kids are the more "natural" kids... from an evolutionary point of view. Humans doesn't have the best physical features of all... not as strong as a tiger, nor as fast as a cheetah, nor as resistant as an elephant, and can't even fly. So, our best feature is our mind.
Then, maybe that unfit and weak kids have different skills that are also indispensable and valuable for evolution. Like better instinct or sensibility, a sharpest mind, or the ability to conect with their peers at deepest levels. Leadership also comes to my mind. Strategy. All this were necessary to the survival of an ancient tribe.
So, maybe the athletic sporty kind of kids are only one of the evolutionary-needed kind of kids. But life has many ways...
Maybe the evolution has rules not yet discovered or not yet explained. More than a "stronger" set of rules, a "more appropriate" approach could explain the survival of dreamers, leaders, researchers and all those different profiles...
Science has yet things to discover and to explain. Maybe it will not. Perhaps spending 20 years of our life studying love as some of us spend them studying science would bring us a better understanding of it, the most powerful drive and ultimate force.
Or perhaps love is a just journey without final destination...
But, by all means, can we explain it or not... it is mandatory to LIVE.
"Perhaps spending 20 years of our life studying love as some of us spend them studying science would bring us a better understanding of it, the most powerful drive and ultimate force"
... i really like that.
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