Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Black Roots Like Fingernails and Shoes

Be forewarned, this may get a bit pissy, moanish, and terse- but not in the polished way, in the curt, kinda way. This also sounds like a X rated movie preface, but i assure you, its not.

How do we establish expectations, goals, dreams, or more dreadful of all, rights? Historically, we can do that whole timeline from the Magna Carta, circ 1215, if we want proper documentation of when man first wrote that he feels deserving. You could argue that, hell, it's Gods fault, and that the covenant between man and heavenly father set us up to fail, to believe that we will be able to cash in on a gift not attainable in this mortal realm. And that faith/hope/ desires will be met with gratification and reward that we must work and strive for.

Still, I think all of that is analogous for the fact that gratification is expensed over time, and nothing is ever as good now as it can be later (for if it was so, costs would reflect quality in a different manner). Even if something is perishable, the fact that it gets you from point at to b with some modicum of joy is worthy of extra fiscal consideration, is it not?

This want or need for promise is a cornerstone of humanity, because without it- everything we hold true falls apart. Relationship, commerce, religion. This is funny because if you erase want, theoretically speaking, what is the end result? Is that the real anarchy? Or not wanting not existing?