Ingenuity in an Age of Novelty

Published Friday, January 04, 2008 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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December 25, 2007
Location: Eagle, Colorado
Going backwards a little here, out of time.

As I was driving through the Rockies on my way to Jeff & Kats place I couldn't help but marvel at the ingenuity of the human being. I was awestruck by the highways as they twisted up and down through the mountains, Veronica was a little less impressed as the inclines caused her engine serious grief.

It led me to thinking about how if we put our minds to something we can accomplish feats of ingenuity that measure up there with the pyramids. Our ability to create the our world is truly wondrous. But at the same time, as with everything, it relates to choices of how we use our energy and ingenuity. Do we create a world of comfort and complacency or do we strive to keep adaptation alive, and push forwards towards something more holistic and sustainable. Do we make careful choices regarding what we build and why we build it, or do we just bulldoze mother nature because we can, because we want more empty novelty.

Either way, the highways of the Colorado Rockies are definitely a testament of our capabilities. We are co-creators in a very literal sense, if only we'd be more critical of our creative impulses, and if only they were driven by something other than brute economics.

Perhaps if we re-framed our creative impulses, we'd be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel ;-)

peace,
d

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