Almost every day, I come across either posts or discussions about how the world has completely adapted to the artificial and science-aided way of life. But in the end, all complaints and lamentations will only fall on the deaf ears of the world, and it’s not actually our fault because the world is moving at a strange pace, and it’s looking almost impossible to stay away from the train of life.
What do I mean?
I won’t be far from the truth in citing some examples, and I’ll start with agriculture and the preservation of food, which has been very alarming in our world today. People are clamouring to go back to the real natural way of farming and preservation of farm produce, but can we go back to that age now? It’s totally impossible except the farming is to be done in very small quantities, and that can only be at a substantial stage.
Okay, we all know apples. Apples are not grown in large quantities in Nigeria. Most of the apples we see in shops and markets are imported. The truth is, an apple is a perishable good, so it can’t last for a long period without getting worn out or decaying. But do you know that most of the apples in stores and markets have stayed up to a month and they’re still looking fresh as if they were plucked today? Have you ever imagined why they’re like that? Have you ever imagined what kind of preservation makes them stay that long without getting worn out? As it is, no one wants to know. All we want is to eat apples, and it’s none of our business what’s used to preserve them.
The world has really gone far. At the stage we are now, even though we know that eating naturally produced and preserved food is better, the artificial or technology-fostered methods have taken over. Settling completely on naturally produced and preserved food is almost impossible except one is to grow the food by themselves. If not, most of the foods sold in the market are sponsored through chemical means, either by growth or preservation.
Okay, away from food, we are all aware of the trending addition of extra flesh to the body, and the most common is the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL). As funny as it may sound, it’s heavily preached against in my part of the world, but the rate at which people go for it is crazy and alarming because even the ones hearing the sermon every now and then are the ones marketing it. The world knows that the natural lifestyle is better, but the artificial lifestyle is dominating, and everyone is buying into the ideas because of how greatly available they are and how sweet the offers present themselves. Yeah, this artificial lifestyle has become nearly unavoidable because of its usefulness to some extent too, such as giving an artificial leg to an accident victim who lost their leg and many other scenarios.
The summary is, We are in a modern age where artificial life is ruling due to the crazy speed at which technology is expanding, so it's almost impossible to go back to the old ways of using everything natural. There are just few people on earth today that are settling for locally produced cream as we used to have in those days. Today, creams are about chemicals and we just have to adapt even though we believe their olden days patterns are better.
Thanks for reading.
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