Last night I was watching my friend play rock band, and I was thinking about how amazing music is. Created by people willing to learn the skills to operate their fingers individually in abstract patterns to create the sounds they desire. Modern stringed instruments, such as the guitar, have ancestries that can be traced back to the ancient Romans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#History). I got to thinking about how long humans have been making music and how the devices with which to make music have evolved over thousands of years.
The idea that prehistoric man discovered that making sounds could be fun, and that this knowledge persisted strongly enough and was important enough that people not only learned how to make music with what they had, but tried to improve their music making tools. Today we have awe inspiring orchestras and heart pounding, head banging rock and roll, because for thousands of years, mankind has been striving to improve and alter the ways in which we can make sound.
To me this simple everyday fact is a monument against slacking off. It is a testament to falsehood that greed controls everything. Sure, money makes the world go 'round, but people can always work to slowly change the face of that world. The world keeps turning, but tomorrows world doesn't have to be the same.
Thought for tomorrow: Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero aren't just games, they are celebrations of culture.
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