Why Low-tech is High-tech
Look around: what do you see? An arrogance bordering on contempt that we humans clearly don't share with animals.
It's what motivates many of us to stop walking once we learn to drive. It allows us to pay scant heed to mysteries no one has yet figured out.
How else can we sit for hours or days or even lifetimes at a desk; or embed ourselves in networks that fade when we enter a forest or travel along an unpaved road?
A day-in and out array of happenings and interruptions.
Not all deductive
Is it just me who thinks many things in this world have no name? (especially not the ones most people use).
I once read that the unnamable is the eternally real.
But does anybody know? Or are we just buffoons fallen for our own bluffs, oblivious to concerns of greater calling?
When I was a kid, I wondered why Albert Einstein would so often get lost at sea in his beloved sailboat.
Something about the sea, our senses, the wind and fire, that connect beyond binary figurations to a finer (and cruder) core.
I speak of voices heard when you least expect them. The movements of a cat while stalking her prey. Or the will to truly engage our own senses (marvels that no tech can match) only now transfigured, no longer truly animal.
Maybe this is the borderline between health and dysfunction, a place where our best answers are often no better than a pill.
Or many pills... and alcohol, smoke and sugar, or whatever else it takes to comprehend.
For mystery and manifestation arise from the same source, beyond evolution and god (if you forgive the term) or any other legend we haven't yet surpassed.
Darkness within darkness - a figment of the intellectual mind; what happens to people who forget about low-tech.
