What If We All Lived 30,000 Years Ago?
        Could you imagine what life would be like 30,000 years ago?  Think about it for a moment, about where you might find yourself during this time period, imagining you're a human being living in this time...

        30,000, or rather, about 28,000B.C. is a very interesting time period.  It was only around 10,000B.C. that "civilization" was about to emerge, and making its final evolutionary processes, but what about that era right before civilization became active?  I have a, granted - uneducated, but solid belief that clothing, as well as many of our modern day perspectives that came paired with civilization had the chance to either live or die during this era.

        For those who were absolutely the most fortunate souls in this world of around 28,000B.C., the most ideal living condition comparable to modern day would be living next to a river that was flowing from the spawn of a hot spring.  Hot springs, under the correct conditions can be some of the healthiest, therapeutic locations on Earth.  Grass and native life, but not grass and native life to the extent of any creature lethal enough to be a threat.  Water, sanitation, vegetation, and wildlife.  The most dangerous creatures on Earth, in their land roaming form, are largely extinct.  Only in the deep, deep depths of the ocean are we still finding creatures similar in their cunning and size to that of prehistoric dinosaurs.  Add on a climate with good weather that's not too hot, not too cold...a river...water...plants...trees...shade...the hot spring...to a pre-civic caveman, that would have been paradise.

        Like today, these valued locations, resources, and territories of golden hope and prosperity were fought over.  Could it be possible, that mankind around the world had such a desire for better life that they were willing to begin eliminating their own species for control of these places?  Of course!  Under traditional and stereotypical high school level scientific terms, their means of progression to these ideas was the concept of survival, where adaptation caused them to create more advanced tools to use in battle, to use in food captivation, the use of fire, all of these things innovated by geniuses undocumented.  Plato and the other Greek philosophers were perhaps some of the first literarily recorded thinkers of our time, but just as Plato, Descartes, Socrates were all individuals, so were these human beings with no names.

        And these geniuses lived, without their ingenious thought or consideration, to clothes.  "Civilization," in its most simplistic and primitive concept, sounds like an outstanding idea.  In order to strengthen growth & prosperity of a species, it would make sense for that species, given its gift of intelligence, to team up, live as a community, as a whole, to create its own shelter, to adapt to its environment, to cultivate farms, to obtain subsistence, and to regulate order among its members.  Where civilization runs a rye, of course, is in its debate of thoughts.  A common trend among those who end up becoming leaders is an ability to communicate something new, something unspoken of that has mass appeal to the people.  People in the start of civilization turned, very often times, to priests of early religion.  Priests, not politicians, were known to hold order, to guide the people, to create law. 

        With the conceptualization of religion comes an idea of guidance, of hope, and sometimes a sense of the healthy majority to unite toward a common goal to further their status in life to achieve greatness after death.  To regulate a machine of such tremendous power, a machine driven by the majority of people to create an economically successful civilization, unknown beliefs had to be created, and the people had to be convinced that it would lead them to greatness.  With the illusion of the Gods watching over the people and giving their divine message to the priests who lead, the priests themselves could benefit, while watching the genius of civilization work its magic.  What the people never realized, is that so many of these ideas that were manifested could have an override.  Moral beliefs of what the Gods wanted included unnecessary guidelines, like superstitions.  Even the belief of not taking your shoes off before entering an area of cleanliness would cause a decrease in your status of the afterlife, today considered a ridiculous idea, would be enough to lead an arrogant, uneducated, and unaware people of a more primitive time.  One of these superstitions, in all of its genius in its creation, was made to be paired with one of the single most powerful biological processes that exists within and out of the human psyche - nudity, its state of vulnerability, possibility for corruption, and its strength, especially in the male form to hunt and become the dominant species of the entire planet.

        With the development of the moral hierarchy, the concepts of vulnerability, dominance, and an opening for corruption of spiritual, physical, and mental cavities began to be filled with a new obsession with sexuality.  Sex, a function only developed beyond the state of youth, affects the behavior of every human being, from its thought patterns and perceptions to its physical interests, including that of rest, exhaustion, reproduction, affection, aggression, and emotional stability.  With the greatest breakthrough in evolution, that of physical dominance over its predators, mankind now had to face its own worst enemy - its own perceptions of self in the scope of morality, existence, and community.  It makes sense, evolutionarily speaking, for mankind to have associated nudity with sex as its need for survival was minimized.  It makes sense, evolutionarily speaking, for mankind to have become preoccupied with its own biological, spiritual, and mental processes.  Perhaps the next challenge, now, after all these thousands, or perhaps millions of years, will be nature and mankind to tackle its most challenging evolutionary objective of all - the acceptance of self, and the true fulfillment in the face of existence, in its mental, physical, and spiritual potential.  We can start, with acceptance of the body - it was there before we even knew it was, serving us before we could say it did anything otherwise.  What right do we have, to reject the creation of this masterpiece in all of its totality?  To deny the imperfect perfection of our own body is to deny the imperfect perfection of millions of years in nature, tossing and turning the sands of time, sculpting and resculpting its ideas to create a possible final product, one that will be the most brilliant, brightly burning fire of all - the human, its mind, and its body.
 

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