Against our Will
I was going to write on the topic of that odd phenomenon of Free Will that has perplexed us on and off and on again... Specifically on the question: how it is possible to do something "against one's will?" ...but the requested pearl of lucidity in this challenge lolled around in my writer's touch like a greased marble and then cowered somewhere under the refrigerator... reminding me that in this arena we do not play for keeps, and that indeed I don't know jack... and so I could not collect any game pieces. It got me thinking on something seemingly unrelated, as I was later today picking mulberries off the tree near my local cemetery (strange but true!). As Mankind, we pride ourselves on having gotten quite far up off our knees from the stone ages, to agricultural innovation and the age of iron; eventually to industrialization, and this digital epoch. And a funny thing struck me as I swiped my purple stained fingers over my cell phone screen looking for information... we have really not gotten very far at all from being... just hunters and gatherers... after all.