Observations Vol. 1

I would like to present some observations for humanity about humanity if that’s alright with humanity.

These observations are in no way meant to be taken as fact or satire or anything in between, but as just that, observations. These are just some things that I’ve noticed throughout my years as well as looking back on the years before me. I think a lot about our limitations and how far we’ve come as a people, and although we’ve come a long way it seems to me that we have done little to expand beyond a lot of our original ideas. This is a theory that I would like to explain through the analysis of a few separate subjects, and I would like to start with humanity’s use of projectiles.

Projectiles as many of us know are our primary source of power over other creatures. Way back before anyone was writing internet articles we used sticks and rocks to inflict damage on targets that were at a distance. In the alpha stages of this method we mostly did this in large groups, we would surround the prey, use teamwork and a good throwing arm to bring home a meal to feed ourselves and the other people that we cared about. This is what separated us from the rest of the food chain.

Throughout the years we refined this method more and more. First we sharpened the sticks, then we discovered the ability to launch the projectiles in more efficient ways with the bow or the sling. The most advanced engineering of every generation has been applied to launching projectiles more efficiently. We built the catapult to launch large stones that would otherwise be too big for us to throw, we used calibrated tubing and ignited gunpowder to launch small stones with more accuracy and distance. We refined the projectiles as well, we smoothed the stones to create modern bullets, we used our understanding of chemistry to create projectiles that explode on impact. We built tanks that could do all of this simultaneously while protecting against incoming projectiles.

In 1938, German physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch discovered Nuclear Fission, giving us the ability to split atoms and potentially ignite a cataclysmic explosion. We were able to harness this power and make the next projectile, the Atom Bomb.

Seven years later we threw them at each other.

Today we have the ability to throw projectiles at any square inch of the entire planet. This is made possible by satellites. Now how do we have satellites? We loaded them into high powered projectiles and shot them into orbit. Maintenance of these satellites as well as all of our space exploration is also made possible by this method, we simply loaded ourselves into the projectiles.

From the best hunter to the best quarterback we have always idolized and rewarded the members of our tribe that can throw the best. Any demonstration of physical prowess is completely built around this method. From Football to Soccer to Golf to Beerpong, all of it is about a projectile of some kind. Even if you take a look at professional fighting, you’ll notice that it's not moving beyond the projectile, it’s going back before it. Hand to hand combat is simply a competition of how good we are when our projectiles are stripped away.

None of this is to say that we haven’t moved forward, because we have. Our understanding of projectiles is what has led us to so much of the information that we have. With the first stone ever throne was the beginning of our understanding of gravity and speed and measurement and physics. Our minds have expanded so much on account of this. My only point is that the method itself begins and ends with throwing a rock, and I find that to be an interesting observation.