Nature defined

I think humans are strange in many ways. One of the strangest things to me has to be the fact that humans (an animal on Earth) one day forgot that they were an animal on Earth. They seem to think that they stopped being like the plants and animals and rocks and became something totally different. I think it is a result of being able to make such neat things. If a bird makes a nest, the nest still looks like mud and grass which is obviously nature. But cell phones and planes don't look at all like nature. The truth is that they are natural. They are just things that an animal made. Of course an airplane doesn't biodegrade like a bird's nest does but there are lots of natural things that mess up an ecosystem if its in the wrong place.

There are some natural laws that humans ignore. But the laws are still there and these are the things that I'm most interested in tracking. Economics for example has been around long before humans. Feathers on a bird are a huge energy investment that pays off through flight. Just like the way we pay lots of money to fly places, as long as its worth it. Animals get fat just like we do if they have the same food surplus and sedentary lifestyle.

Another natural law is evolution. Evolution creates perfection. Or as close to it as possible. Once something stops evolving then its practically perfect. The bicycle for example. Its not going anywhere. Its a super efficient, fun way to travel. The evolution of computers is really cool and the evolution of our culture is very interesting to me. Its when things are restrained from evolving that I see problems occur. Religion, politics, and education come to mind. They all evolve eventually but it feels like they are treading in molasses sometimes.

All of the pure truths of the world can be found by tracking nature. This is a very comforting thing for me because society is a confusing place sometimes.