Thursday, April 23, 2009

A wonder to far

This chapter seemed to continue this expose of wonders and the adventures of those that tried to attain them. Going through this chapter, I started to wish that I could fly back and be able to make these new discoveries and be the heroes that produced these marvels. It seems that during this time, you are either providing the services to ensure the basic needs of the people (security, food, shelter) and when you have the extra time you would seek knowledge and inquire about the order of things. So we have more information now than ever, we all have more free time to do what we want than the people we are reading about. Then why am I jealous of those wonder explorer's instead of pursuing them myself. It seems as though to reach a new frontier we have to go so far into the learning process that only at the very end of our lives that we may be able to extrapolate a new wonder. This could seem to be the reason that we go through a process that sterilizes our curiosity and inquiry. We no longer question the system, we question which system to use in order to get information. Our definition of curiosity now, is a kid who wants to read all the encyclopedia's in the library, back then those kids would eventually be writing the encyclopedia's using their own experiences and samples as building blocks.

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