Over 99% of the living species from the time earth was made
are extinct! So what’s next! I think we will evolve.
I received a video depicting how mobility has intruded into
our day to day life and how it’s the cause for different effects. Major effect
being of a kind of alienation from our community interactions between our peers,
families etc. We seem to communicate more by type & text and pictures &
video. We tend to do this even if we are sitting next to each other. The
missing link may be its less time being spent in person with the individual or
the group. This being the case…..it is interesting when we try and put on the
lens of our profound intellect and start deciding whether this behaviour is apt
or inapt. Or take the other case where we may be indifferent to this scenario
as well.
This scenario kept on building in my mind which I am trying
to capture as below.
So let’s imagine time far far ago…..when we were the
primates who had been just converted to Human Beings…
What must have happened…. How was our day to day life… Could
it be something like this…. Sure they didn’t
have to work or earn or cook or play etc…..nothing had been invented… they
could I think eat, sleep, drink, do whatever they do wherever they stood or
were physically present… It’s like “Main Jahaan Khadaa hota huun whain se
Duniyaa shuruu hoti hain”
Hungry Kyaa- Pluck a fruit, veggie etc….
Sleepy Kyaa- Lie on the stone or the ground…
Etc etc…
So most of the time they spent with themselves trying to
talk, invent a language, learn to use the limbs… So I think each day they must
learning pretty important stuff… like how to use your thumb, winking etc
But I think during this phase these guys must be spending
around 99.999% time within their Group..robust communication..each second of
life there is personal attention and feedbacks and helping hands etc…
Let’s move to few more decades of evolution…
Our Primates now they have evolved and grown in size and
numbers….
Now they have learnt to cultivate….hunt….they still have
abundant resources….their time has been divided now…
So naturally these guys start spending lesser time within
their group…..let’s take it to be around 80.888%
Further moving decades into Human timeline…We are better
than what the primates must have thought or imagined… we have come a long way…
we have spread our clout far and wide on land and sea.
We are now divided in cohesive and rebellious groups…one
thing seems to be missing…we seem to be afraid of no one expect maybe that
which cannot be controlled till it can be controlled…..like we were afraid of
fire till learnt to control fire….. As the groups became larger there seemed to
be issues in managing these groups… So the wise and old people of each of these
groups thought long and hard….then they made some guidelines… when they went
with these guidelines to the larger group it seems that these larger groups
were not convinced… they wise and old people went back and postulated…they came
up with an idea….they said these guidelines fell from the sky…came from the
river etc … they started something which would I think eventually lead to the
formation of Gods and God’s men…. Let’s leave it at that.
What I am interested in imagining is how were our time spent
… I think we were spending lesser time as time was now more and more divided….there
were more stuff to do… capture lands.. fight for land and resources and women
and men… prove I/we are better than you…… so now the time spent has come down
to 70.777%
So let’s move fast forward to our great grandparent’s and grandparent’s
times….
We say they had pretty laid back life ….they used to work in
smaller areas…nearby areas initially… slowly started moving far-off in search
of what we call livelihood… Still enough
time they used to spend with their groups… around 60.666%
So when they talk to us… they compare and tell us that, we
use to spend so much time with each other and now look at you… we used to go to
the village fair… Diwali/ Christmas etc …. used to be so much work.. fun and
frolic.
Now let us come to present day… we are now mobile and when
we look back we go back to our memories… and say that wow those were the days….
Now we are at a point that our communication with our peers
and families is much informal and over phones etc… many of us block time or has
tried to make it a habit for the same…. How much time does an average person
really spend time in comparison to the primate… 50.555% or lesser…. Where is
this going to go from here…..
The coming tomorrows there is going to be lesser personal
touch…..whatever we do… we have come from 99.999% to 80.888% to 70….. and this
is a decreasing trend…. Eventually it may be come zero…. We may not talk at all…..
We may have a chip or bio-chem-mechanical thing in our body which would
communicate…. Text, Visuals…videos…. Without actually speaking….
We will then say, those were the wonderful days when we used
to chat over Whatsapp…. Share many things over facebook… We may chide our kids or kid’s kids…saying
that nowadays you guys are going on trip or climbing a hill or going on a sea
cruise virually…but those were beautiful days when we had a group were we
planned trips and meetings and actually did it....
Over 99% of the living species from the time earth was made
are extinct! So what’s next! I think we will evolve.
And evolution will peak once the personal touch comes to
0.000% That will be my friends the Nadir of the current evolution.
Then the meek will inherit the earth!!
Welcome to my land of fantasy….. J
