If “necessity is the mother of invention” then ‘all’ invention serve someone’s perception of need. With their invention, their need is/was alleviated. While this need could have been alleviated in any number of ways – that it was identified, means it felt important to one person (the inventor). He chose to execute his solution in his peculiar way which reflects his lineage of ideas, thoughts, and training.
As it turns out, “needs” are relative – and reflect ongoing languaging. Such as “I need to eat X amount of protein a day” or take so much Calcium. This turns out to be mostly nonsense not based on any tangible reality.
A few centuries ago, I might have “needed” to make a burnt offering in order to propitiate some G-d being that was or wasn’t raining on my fields.
Now we know we don’t “need” to do that – propitiation is an ‘inside’ job; sometimes the answer really is to move.
We sometimes “need” to come together and get aligned in a 2D sense- so as beings we move more cohesively from A to B. (Usually “the page” is invoked here which is a truth too – since when gathered and focusing with intention, all in attendance receive the same ‘news’ like the page would bring or what we might read from a book).
I’m totally in agreement with some above comments – especially about exams and schools. It seems such a waste to put a young waveform into a square-room class and make them learn that the only way they can ‘get ahead’ is by sitting and listening to someone who, when they look back on life, knows vanishingly little about a piece of trivia.
I get that “school” is really a place to warehouse small inept waveforms while parents go off and “make a living” (sitting on their butts working for another). Otherwise they might sit at home and cause chaos. Or would, if they weren’t glued to their screens which are pure dopamine-pleasers.
Sure, some parents do their busy-work which brings them income while they stand and/or move, but usually they don’t need today’s schools to do these jobs and instead often drop out to become social statistics.
Here’s an essay about an alternative school system vision which came to me while I was visiting the souk in Egypt.
Since then I’ve written several others about the nature of personal sovereignty.
