I was on this trip. I saw a monkey feeding its infant. There was another monkey around who kissed the infant and threw its arms around. After a while, they dispersed and were their things like climbing trees and looking for food and just playing with random things and hanging around and chilling with other monkeys. Made me wonder, what we humans would be doing now, had we not developed the cognitive skills? May be we will still be doing the same. A realization hit me. How everything that’s been taught to us from the young age, everything we believe, everything we do and want to do are all social constructs. Right from language, money, time, society, government, god, what is right and what is not, what is respected and what is cringey? Every single thing was an idea born in some brilliant mind either to solve a problem or for survival. Its astonishing to think how we (at least the majority) don’t question any of these and believed almost everything that were told to us. I know we are changing and question a few of these constructs now. But what change will it bring to the human mind when it sees none of these are real? Not just one, what if a large population stops believing in money, saving for the future, the respect that money brings? How differently will they live after? Will we live like monks? Isnt that again a social construct?
I wonder if constructs gives us some kind of blueprint for the otherwise senseless lives. If not for these constructs, will our lives turn chaotic and we may go back being barbaric? How will we build or project our images?
Thinking about this, makes me wonder if this is all man made, what is the reality?
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