Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Post Modern Man

It is said that Adam, the first man on Earth, roamed the Garden of Eden in search of food. Vegetables, fruits and what not.
Then came The Fall.
After which, Man became hunter-gatherers. Foragers of the woods, seeking out edible flora, while stalking and killing animals.
Then came new technology. In place of the spear came the hoe. In place of blow-darts, came ninjas with blow darts. Ok, maybe not. Haha..

Anyway, Man eventually settled down and stopped becoming nomads. Their primary source of food now came from the fruits of their labor, some literally (take fruits for example), while others were not (like the domesticated animals). The farmers appeared.
As the world aged, different people took up different and specialised niches. Some remained as farmers, but specialised into fields like Pig-rearing Specialist, while others took up jobs like Otolaryngology Specialist. (The second is an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist btw) Modern Man had taken over the role of the Outdated Man and the This-is-so-yesterday Man, subsequently resulting in the elimination of their related fields, like Saturday Night Fever disco dancing and Popular Large Afro Hairdos.

However, Man is never static. This dynamic nature of Man resulted in him following the flow, changing as the times changed. In this modern era, the Post Modern Man has appeared, bringing along radical changes. The concept of Retro is invented, and relics of the Outdated Man have been discovered and accorded a place in the Hall Of Fashion. Sexual equality has been raised time again, where women demand an ever greater share of the work force pie (together with its stress and burdens) and men demand to be allowed to be House Husbands.
The species of Man long gone would recoil at the idea that the Working Wife has taken over as the main breadwinner of the family, and the House Husband does marketing! Indeed, if they were undead they would be curling and rolling about in their graves had they but get a whiff of this news.

Btw, since "un-" means "not", would that make an undead somebody/something that is not dead? If that is so, would it/he/she be alive then? Since most things have their equals and opposites, would that also mean that there are unalives?
Ignore that. Just being lame~

PS. What could the guy working in Jusco have to laugh about when he saw me buying fish?! Has he never heard of the post-modern man before? Mental note to self: Set lose an army of unalives on the poor hapless modern man in Jusco who does not recognise the product of evolution.

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