A bunch of posts. One, because I haven't posted in awhile and two, because I can't sleep.

Okay, so you know you hear all the time how ideas and culture are built on the shoulders of our predecessors right? There's a whole contingent that argues against copyrighting for this reason. (At least, they don't want copyright laws any more restrictive. I really don't know enough about the issue to speak without being sophomoric.) Well, I understood this, but it really didn't have any impact on me until earlier this week.

I realized that humans have had essentially the same brain, physiologically, for at least 250,000 years. We like to think of ourselves as evolving, but evolution works over eons. We haven't evolved much physically for a long, long time. That means the same brain that created the microchip, the microwave oven and the remote control, was banging a couple of rocks together just yesterday in evolutionary terms.

So our respective cultures evolve. Not us necessarily. It also means I can't really take credit for anything anymore. Just when I was going to stop being humble.

Okay, I've got to go to bed.