Forty thousand years ago was about when anthropologists believe humanity developed the concept of language and, with it, symbolic thought.
What the band is trying to say, I believe, is that Western society, somehow, has fallen off the track, that we no longer live the way nature/God/whatever meant us to live. To some degree, he's right.
The question is, is that entirely a bad thing? Sure, corporations have far too much power and influence over our daily lives.
While we don't live simple hunter/gatherer lifestyles, humanity's legacy is technological advance. Without these advances, which are the legacy of language and symbolic thought, our fate will be no different than any other species on this planet - we'll spend our time here, then disappear.
@SirThoreth I'd say the line of thought is that we've lost our connection with the land and abused the rights of individuals for greed, more so than that we should return to how things were. We can progress but what costs are we willing to pay? More poignantly, do we need to pay that cost? Or was there a better way to achieve the same results?
@SirThoreth I'd say the line of thought is that we've lost our connection with the land and abused the rights of individuals for greed, more so than that we should return to how things were. We can progress but what costs are we willing to pay? More poignantly, do we need to pay that cost? Or was there a better way to achieve the same results?
Forty thousand years ago was about when anthropologists believe humanity developed the concept of language and, with it, symbolic thought.
What the band is trying to say, I believe, is that Western society, somehow, has fallen off the track, that we no longer live the way nature/God/whatever meant us to live. To some degree, he's right.
The question is, is that entirely a bad thing? Sure, corporations have far too much power and influence over our daily lives.
While we don't live simple hunter/gatherer lifestyles, humanity's legacy is technological advance. Without these advances, which are the legacy of language and symbolic thought, our fate will be no different than any other species on this planet - we'll spend our time here, then disappear.
Personally, I'm not too fond of that idea.
@SirThoreth I'd say the line of thought is that we've lost our connection with the land and abused the rights of individuals for greed, more so than that we should return to how things were. We can progress but what costs are we willing to pay? More poignantly, do we need to pay that cost? Or was there a better way to achieve the same results?
@SirThoreth I'd say the line of thought is that we've lost our connection with the land and abused the rights of individuals for greed, more so than that we should return to how things were. We can progress but what costs are we willing to pay? More poignantly, do we need to pay that cost? Or was there a better way to achieve the same results?