If man
had originally inhabited a world as blankly uniform as a ‘high
rise’ housing development, or as featureless as a parking lot, as
destitute of life as an automated factory, it is doubtful that he would have
had a sufficiently varied experience to retain images, mould language or
acquire ideas.
The american historian
and philosopher
of technology
and science
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) provides
today’s Green Thought. It comes from page 154 of his superb 1966 book The Myth of the Machine.
Not only would we have not evolved but there is overwhelming evidence that living under this conditions is causing acute developmental disorders.
ReplyDeleteYou may think this only applies to a few but in fact none of us are immune.
For example most people brought up in these rectilinear environments have a perception disorder which gives rise to the Muller Lyer Illusion as demonstrated by Rivers in 1901!!!
If we immerse ourselves in nature would we revert to normal or remain as the stunted and grossly deformed creatures that they have made us into?