This morning I read an article about how ancient microbes were discovered beneath an Anartic Glacier, one of which is likely breaking and melting away (not factual, but likely). Fun stuff, considering a whole ice age is upon us (in due time).  However, I am not going to talk about my thoughts on what I think is an inevitable ice age, rather I wish to talk about human life, not the lack of.  

This article I mentioned goes on to talk about how under the conditions presented to the bacteria it is both amazing and promising that they survived. Amazing because of the cold temperature and age, while promising to prove that there could be more life than suspected in colder areas of other planets.  

The writer goes on to quote Ann Pearson, ”Organisms are highly adaptable to their environments. They are able to slow down as long as they get some energy,”.   This specific statement stuck with me due in course to some recent thinking about adaptation.  Not the movie, which coincidentally I once lied to people about seeing, in order to be involved in conversation.  Not the point.  Adaptation is a sole struggle that we all face.  I am facing it, as others are, right now with technology.

I have always believed that in order to succeed in a business sense one must adapt to their surroundings.  Meaning that true succession in today’s corporate world forces you to perhaps go against some things you would not have otherwise (some people would say this is “selling out” – I would agree).  Doing something you do not want to do is not necessarily “paying dues”, some time it is “selling out”,  other times it is adapting. Today ,as much as ever we hear the word, adaption; In regards to climate, to the earth, to space, to animals…You get the idea.  So what to do, what to do…

Today’s culture of constant I find myself faced with a dilemma: Should I continue to adapt to the world around me, in this case, meaning continuing to fall victim to on-line technologies, all while trying to communicate with others in a more personal way, with word and actual type, rather than in disconnected speech (phone)? 

Do I really want to continue posting my life online?

Do I choose, as I have which technologies to adapt to, leaving open the possibility for non-advancement because perhaps I choose not to participate with one of them?

Lets face it, we got through all our years without these things and even though they might sometimes make life easier, they make it unauthentic most of the time.  They forge an urge of sameness and non-communal ways amongst mainly some non-committal relationships.  They break us down and put us out there for the world to see. They read like words of ones life on a page of ones blog, that shows and tells like the third graders we all once were and for what?

I for one do not think we NEED to adapt to current culture. What we need is to start realizing that some things are not neccsary, stop the marketing and maybe even buy a newspaper sometimes.  The economy is bad right now, but maybe that is a good thing. Less consumerism.

Why are my ideas still frantic and all over the place?

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