The Era of Acceptance.

Primitive people expressed their emotions primarily to communicate. But did they indeed have these emotions?

Some emotions we learn from experience. For example, even if our parents warn us, "Don't touch the stove," we still extend our hands to feel how it is. Once we learn it, we don't do it anymore.

Our emotions separate us from the animals, although animals show their feelings differently than humans.

Still, in the beginning, we were like animals in the wilderness. We used our instincts more than our emotions. We were, by then, learning to develop emotions. Then we dropped the instinct stage that allowed us to survive for centuries and crafted emotions that made us more fragile, although, we may contend, emotions make us feel more human, although we struggled (still are) to learn what they are and how to use them.

Through the centuries, we learned about and created emotions by listening to stories passed from generation to generation as DNA strands that keep us connected as a species.

But with the arrival of the modern man and all his toys, I sense we are moving backward, at least emotionally. In our backward walk, we had surpassed the emotional scale of the animals, for even now, we have not only had instincts but also reduced our emotions to silence. True. The complexities of modern society, above all in cities, have silenced our feelings. And worse, we have lost the ability to wonder and react, as we are back in a prehistoric era of acceptance. What happened to the heart, reason, common sense, miracles, and wonders?

Doubtless, we have chained our souls to our primitiveness. We are still primitive people. Inside each of us, regardless of who we think we are, a primitive person is living. It's in our soul. Our primal soul. So, what has progressed in us? The external in us is what has progressed. Our inner self remains captive in that cave, protecting us from nothing, not the elements, not from predators, not from our enemies, not even protecting us from ourselves.

Instead of enjoying progress, we fear it. That is why every aging citizen will tell you that times in the past were better than present times in all ways. Yet, the truth is we all suffer the consequences of progress.

So, what has progressed, then, in the human world?

Machines have progressed.

Not humans.

Think of it.

Simply put, contemporaneous citizens have surrendered their progress and emotions to machines.

True. We are more worried about reaching the next level in fiction that has become science than achieving peace among all humanity and stopping hunger.

And so, the primitive person in us looks for signs or answers.

And like a totem yesterday, AI is here now, and we dance around it and pray it will save us, but from what? That's the question our primitive soul surrenders to.

I have no answer to this question.

But you, the sensible reader, may have the answer. I hope you have it.