Happy yet?

So here we are. Humans in all our entirety. We have surged and mounted to such an incomprehensible level of achievement. Connected to our inferior caveman pasts only by the strands of DNA each stage possesses. We have discovered science and wisdom by delving deeply into the library of existence, grasping knowledge about the world and even beyond. We string our findings together and connect the workings of the world together. Like fishermen’s wives we link together discoveries until we form the net that explains all. We have developed technology that even a decade before us dreamt up for sci-fi films due to their perceived impossibility. From electricity to ipods and robots we have expanded and tested the boundaries of out potential human capability. Flying cars are now well within our grasp.
Technology is said to make daily tasks easier and quicker, creating efficient durations that let us focus on better things. We no longer have to dice our onions or cry about it, we can put them in an electrical chopper and so forth, using the time we have saved for leisure. It cannot be denied that medical advances have greatly improved the lives of many. But as we launce into new moderns, could we be leaving behind the greatest and irreplaceable forms of happiness possible?
We used to enjoy life itself. Nature in all its simplistic complexities and our connections to everything about the Earth. We ran, we tasted, we explored and we worshipped the sights of our world. We savoured each breath and appreciated the purity of the air it came from. Hapiness came from appreciation and our effort to enjoy. Mountains, waterfalls, buttercups and raindrops. We saw life. We played in the trees and sailed on rafts. We listened to the rain and felt the warmth of the sun like it was a blessing, for it let things grow. Light photosynthesising into life that we lived from. Such a miraculous world led to us believing in a divine creator, far omnipotent than a person could ever be to create the masterpiece of a living, rhythmic world. A human was another creature, in harmony with the natural cycles and connections that were right. Our eden.
We had balance and belonged to the world. Now we believe the world belongs to us. Now we create, and yet destroy far more.
Green forests and yellow fields turn to desolate black tarmac. We rip out trees our former indigenous people lived with. We endanger the beings we used to interact with and we choke nature with a grey and poisonous smog. Balance is abolished like our previous selves as combustion commences. People turn to broadband and watch sky whilst devouring GM burgers and desserts formed by additives. Obesity and bland personalities thrive from human success. From flat screens, iphones and digital cameras, we reminisce the natural world and view what’s left. Where is the beauty in a steel machine? What purpose do our lives have when we spend them playing videogames? What has become of our personal aspirations and appreciation of the world? We have turned the gift of life away. Our lives become battles. We selfishly war over oil, we discriminate against our own race, we use inventions to kill and we create misery.
New games, TV shows and technological trends are mass produced and improved by the second to entertain us and give us pleasure. Fishing with your Dad is deemed socially unacceptable, hiking is associated with nudism and anyone who watches the sunrise is an abnormal outsider. We drink, detaching ourselves from the reality we have made to escape it. The human goal has metamorphosed into searching for fulfilment and pursuing happiness, craving more instead of valuing what we have. The more we quest it by our manmade conventions, the more we distance ourselves from the true joys we already had. In our quests, we exploit more of the world’s resources, loosing even more of the original world itself.
A man holds gold in his hand. He snatches for glass thinking it a diamond, and drops the gold, not noticing it has slipped from his fingers.
Humans have evolved to gain such great intellect. With brains that also allow them to naively destroy their surrounding nirvana by trying to find it, or a concept of something greater that can never exist. When is the sunlight, the rocks, the rushes by the river and the birds in the sky ever seen in a sci-fi movie? We predicted an easier, chrome world of grey. With our capabilities, this “advance” is obtainable.