Life is for the Living

There are inherent risks to being alive. In our earlier, more humble beginnings, these risks were more immediate and physical in nature; perceived primarily through the 5 senses. Being attacked by a warring tribe, walking off a cliff, starving to death, exposure to the elements, being gored by a boar while hunting etc.

Generally, the strongest/most intelligent (ie: adaptable) in these conditions would be the ones that survived and perpetuated their superior genetic heritage.

In the modern era, the threats we face are not so immediately perceived or understood, and so for most of us (at least the ones reading this), we do not have the same dilemmas of our primal ancestors that brought them to an early, often messy, grave. Today, the main risks and types of death we face are intellectual, psychological and spiritual. Many people die before their bodies do, and a vast majority of those seemingly prior to the age of 25.

Today, the proverbial perilous cliffs, waterfalls and predators - both man and animal - that naturally gave rise to modern man are in the realm of false ideas, false perceptions, false ways of living and general ignorance.

The death of the body is just an ecological formality for the incurious.

Originally published on my Facebook page March 26th, 2016.