Man was the one from the batch of animals who ranked highest among them. He enriched his life to make it more easy, dynamic and luxurious. But it simultaneously came at a cost, the cost of hard work.
For any living thing, there are needs. The living thing strives to fulfill these needs. The meaning of its life is just to survive and reproduce. Then there was man, who fulfilled his needs and decided to go further. Past his needs he found enrichment development leading to pleasures and luxuries. But how does enrichment lead to more hard work?
For a simple example let's take into consideration the enrichment of uncivilized man. At first when he had no tools, he hunted with his bare hands. Later to make his job easier, he started using spears and other sharp tools. To make such tools and maintain their sharpness, he had to do some additional work which added to his total labor. It sure did make his job of hunting easier and quicker, but he had to spend almost just as much time as he had saved during the hunt (or even more) to sharpen his tools.
As time prevailed he went on inventing and progressing, finding many more ways to make things easier ~ while simultaneously increasing the amount of work he had to do. You can imagine, if just sharpening and making a single tool takes so much time, how much time will other things like making a house, designing and building a car, making a TV, furnishing a coach etc in addition take.
As the modern times approached, the whole idea of man's life became working for enrichment. A renaissance or two passed by and he started earning his daily bread by enriching. He wanted to keep on enriching his life in the future, so he had to teach his children how to enrich their lives by confining them into twenty years of school. As time passed some more, he kept getting busier and busier until a time came when he was so busy enriching his life, he could not even set aside time for enjoying his enriched life. It was then he started to look back at what he had done. In the course of enrichment, he had totally forgotten about his 'real' home ~ nature. He had destroyed his home selfishly trying to make it a better place. It was then that he started to work even harder to preserve nature, taking the responsibility of his fellow animals in his hands. It is here that approached another renaissance.... one which is yet to come.
For any living thing, there are needs. The living thing strives to fulfill these needs. The meaning of its life is just to survive and reproduce. Then there was man, who fulfilled his needs and decided to go further. Past his needs he found enrichment development leading to pleasures and luxuries. But how does enrichment lead to more hard work?
For a simple example let's take into consideration the enrichment of uncivilized man. At first when he had no tools, he hunted with his bare hands. Later to make his job easier, he started using spears and other sharp tools. To make such tools and maintain their sharpness, he had to do some additional work which added to his total labor. It sure did make his job of hunting easier and quicker, but he had to spend almost just as much time as he had saved during the hunt (or even more) to sharpen his tools.
As time prevailed he went on inventing and progressing, finding many more ways to make things easier ~ while simultaneously increasing the amount of work he had to do. You can imagine, if just sharpening and making a single tool takes so much time, how much time will other things like making a house, designing and building a car, making a TV, furnishing a coach etc in addition take.
As the modern times approached, the whole idea of man's life became working for enrichment. A renaissance or two passed by and he started earning his daily bread by enriching. He wanted to keep on enriching his life in the future, so he had to teach his children how to enrich their lives by confining them into twenty years of school. As time passed some more, he kept getting busier and busier until a time came when he was so busy enriching his life, he could not even set aside time for enjoying his enriched life. It was then he started to look back at what he had done. In the course of enrichment, he had totally forgotten about his 'real' home ~ nature. He had destroyed his home selfishly trying to make it a better place. It was then that he started to work even harder to preserve nature, taking the responsibility of his fellow animals in his hands. It is here that approached another renaissance.... one which is yet to come.
