ROOTS AND GRASS
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Of course, grass has roots.
Wherever it grows, generated from seed or by lawn-creep, it puts down roots.
Much as people do.
We nomadic explorers move down the street, across town or across the country – some folks journey around the world, into space, while some will dream of round-trips to Mars.
No, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a metaphoric mix of smoking dope and taking an LSD trip …
This is life as we’ve known it.
Just a few thousand years ago, survival, was impoverished and local.
Then everything changed.
I wonder how many times in the past few hundred years has someone asked that?
Nearly everything we know of as progressive, scientific, modern, healthy, and sanitary has come about in the last 50 years and its best results in the previous 10.
Some might argue that DNA sequencing is more critical than Guttenburg’s development of the printing press.
They would argue, if he hadn’t, someone else would have.
Ford didn’t invent the car, he simply found a way of making cars affordable.
Edison didn’t invent light; he invented the lightbulb.
No writer or thinker invented words – just new ways of seeing them.
Salk, and Banting and Best, they did invent something – and they gave their vaccine and insulin to the world so many millions could survive diabetes and polio.
One day soon, coming to a hype-riddled world will be a ‘new vaccine’ to solve COVID-19 – pandemic relief and return to life as we knew it before. Or will we?
We’ve been locked down and opened up – and in many locales, they’ll be locked down again; the recognized experts will be both right and wrong on any given day.
Political leaders will be inept a lot, yet they’ll blame someone else.
Yes, life as we knew it.