The Filter of Time

the filter of time:

since the early days, from the dawn of time, man has been in pursuit of knowledge, and this agenda, for it is instinctual, has carried us through the centuries to the present day. what was achieved in progress tends to blur the memory of past mistakes and error, for it is human nature to lock on to the truth and hold it forever, while dismissing as false misconceptions once held up as truth.

conventional units of time give us a macro sense of progression. there are natural cycles at work, such as the day and the year. but what has really happened? if we reject formerly believed ideas and concepts as false, they are avenues where we will no longer travel. is it not then that the past is raked over, so to speak, smoothing out the twisted tangle of self deception and error?

it seems in history that a lot of progress often happens in short bursts, while long periods are stagnant, as though the injection of new ideas encourages even more to occur, we being almost in stasis until a breakthrough happens.

it is something tangible, the need to understand the world, reality, and people, and it was always thus, an original and undiminished part of ourselves.

CLEARCHARGE