The Universe's Conspiracy

We all have at some moment in our lives stopped to ask ourselves that all profound question ; " Where do we come from ? " The immediate answer to this question is our mother's womb, and many are satisfied with this answer and go on living their lives with a false sense of glee.

However, there are some whose minds are not as easily satisfied. There are some who seek a more fundamental answer. It is those individuals that now find themselves confronted with the paradox of the chicken and the egg. " What came first, the chicken or the egg ?" or in this context "the baby or the womb ?". As we follow this paradox back in time we soon realize that the gradual nature of the evolutionary selection process means that our original question is meaningless because there is no discrete point when a womb ceases to be a womb or a baby ceases to be a baby. Every womb and every baby is different and the changes that each undergo as we move back in time, are so small that no point can be described as the defining moment when a womb appeared for the first time or likewise for a baby. 

At this point, there are some from that original unsatisfied group that find that their curiosity has been quenched by an answer that has led them right back to the beginning of life. This is the end point for biological curiosity. Beyond this point there are still fewer adventurous souls that dare to venture beyond, and ask themselves a still finer question ; "what are the properties of life and all the materials that constitute the universe around us". To these individuals the final answer lies in the complex interaction of the chemicals that created that primordial soup of RNA that in time led to the womb and the baby of the original question. 

Now most of the world is happy and satisfied. Their question has led them a long way back in time, up to 3.9 billion years before the birth of the questioned baby. However, there still remains a small subset of the population that is uneasy. A portion of the population whose curiosity seems to know no bounds, a bunch of men and women who will only find satisfaction in knowing that all encompassing truth. A truth that often remains hidden from view, but whose precense is nevertheless felt and communicated by a mysterious language. A language used by the universe to communicate all its activities, the language spoken by the Universe's mind ; Mathematics.

Who are you really ?

Up to now I have refrained from expressing much of my opinion about matters. Much of the content of my blog has circulated around appreciating our differences, the differences that make us unique individuals. However, today I will break away from that trend. Today I will tell you why I think 'individuality' is under threat. We are in a world that is becoming increasingly overcome by mass hysteria, and we are losing our individual voices and instead we are chanting the verse of the crowd. 

I am 18 years old and in University. Every night I see my peers getting involved in the ultimate exercise of mass hysteria - clubbing. In a club it is sometimes difficult to tell whose who. Everyone dresses the same, drinks the same drinks and everyone basically acts like everyone else. Last Wednesday I went to a club for the first time. I spent most of my time standing at a corner observing people's behavior. I watched but I could not understand. I could not understand who these people were. They were all the same, I could not identify one individual from the next. All indistinguishable in character and persona, like a crowd of clones. I walked out of that club that night feeling very alone, like an alien that would never belong in this world. 

Then I thought about the structure of our society. We have themed parties, formal dinners, and off-course clubs. But never have I heard of a party whose dress up code was your personality. Imagine an invitation : " ... dress code : wear your personality ! " . Have you ever thought about what you would wear to such a party ? I would love to ask all you clubbers that question, so what would you wear ? 

Ok, so I think that mankind's character diversity is decreasing. But is this necessarily a bad thing ? Off-course there is a counter argument to this whole idea. May be what we are witnessing is some kind of natural selection process. A process that is selecting individuals of one personality type over others. In that case selection is working against me ! crap. May be I should change ! Or may be not, may be I'll just stand stubbornly against the forces of evolution.