Meter of Our Stride
When he invents
something,
no man is so wise
that he can foresee
all the consequences
of the things he
creates,
and so we invent
blindly
compelled by our
passions for knowledge
not knowing what the
future
of mankind might be
because of our
creations.
Human ingenuity
creates largely
unconsciously
in our walking sleep.
What lights the spark
of our imaginations
know one knows
but this much is
sure---
It is guided by as yet
unknown natural
principles.
We can see the traces
of these principles
when we view such
mysteries as why
the researchers
in competing companies
and countries
can only invent new
technologies at
approximately
the same pace,
and why certain
advancements
in human understanding
such as calculus
were invented by
different people
at about the same time
when the inventors were
widely separated
and had no contact with
one another.
What is clear, is that
human
creativity, like all
products of evolution,
only advances at a
certain pace.
No one yet can tell
what meters our stride.
We all are children
of Mother Nature and of
our times.
Our creativity is a
result
of our spirits and our
biology,
combined with
a small bit of natural
randomness
built into each of us.
Mother Nature
evolves our biology
and only she
knows of what our
spirits are made,
from whence they came,
and to where they will
return.
Dewey Dirks
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