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Bloggers = 21st century Cave Painters
When you get beyond the ‘how’, you realize the goal is very similar – to communicate with your social group. Art can be viewed as the very first technology human beings developed with a goal of communicating and motivating themselves and their social group. Some may dismiss it as a primitive use of pigment on stone, but this would be a misinterpretation.
All the base needs of a paleolithic, human social group including food, shelter, and every substantive decision that group makes might be influenced by the efforts of a few or one individual. That individual would have had special knowledge of plants and mineral pigments as well as skills in applying them. An individual’s point of view and ability to make a persuasive, encouraging illustration for viewing by their group might make the difference between starvation and abundance. Today a blogger needs some skill with a computer and an ability to collect information and write, photograph or video tape their subject. With this in mind the comparison doesn’t seem so far fetched. Being able to visualize a solution and coordinate a group through communication seems to be a very old and very specialized human skill.
Next time you read a blog post it might be worth considering what was the motivation of the blogger? Did it seem like they were genuinely interested in communicating a worthwhile comparison? substantive information? a different point of view? or was it merely a few words they typed out to pass the time or try to attract your attention?
So much of what we encounter in a day’s time is filler or not relevant to us. When you look at your circumstances from the point of view of your base needs, a creative insight might make a difference in how you approach changing how effectively those needs are filled. With that in mind, it’s just as important to be discriminating about who you let paint on your cave wall or computer screen.
