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Posted on 30/03/2011 by admin

Human beings are great copycats. As soon as we find a thing that works hundreds of us all bound to become experts or a part of it, suddenly placing it in any of a series of mythic feelings and suggestions which then become a part of the culture. We invent a car and before we know it its an extension of a man’s libido, its special if its new, its a reason to work and save, its a way to tell others how rich we are. Somehow one just knows though the paradigms are lost in history, we were the same when we invented the wheel making sure there were carts and carriages to send a message about status, when we domesticated the horse or the elephant and we put great store on colour and ‘blood stock’.

Then our children grow up with the status symbols firmly embedded in their heads and the new generation recalls the symbols they had as Christmas presents and how they make them feel in the general community and through it all some lone voice asks, is this really what we are about? Is this indicative of any depth of thought whatsoever? Expensive this or that?

And of course the answer is yes it is what society of largely about and no, it is not indicative of deep thought.

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