May 25, 2011
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On Learning
If there's one thing I've always loved, and always will - it's learning.
The thing is - there's just so much shit out there to learn!
I haven't even come CLOSE to conquering everything in history, yet. Not even freaking close. And that stuff isn't even the best stuff.
Animals are some of the best stuff. That's why I like series like Planet Earth or Life. They teach me what I need to know in an interesting way. And ALWAYS leave me in awe.
But there's so much more out there. That stuff is just about animals that are around now. I want to know about evolution, baby. We came from little amphibianoid type things, and just filled nitches of survival wherever the environment let us.
And the crazy thing - that's just ONE PLANET. There's nothing, NOTHING, to say our planet is all that special. Well, it's sort of special as far as the holding life things go. But we ONLY THINK it's special because of our crappy technology telling us that some of the stuff near us doesn't support life (as we know it to be supported).
We've only been doing good at technology for about 200 years, and the saddest part of my life is knowing I'll never see it evolve to the peak or crescendo where we can know everything about everything in the UNIVERSE.
Maybe that's for the best, because I can't take in all the knowledge as it is. Until I"m omniscient, I'll always stay a bit unsatisfied.
