This thing just keeps popping into my head. "Sometimes I realise we are all just cavemen, look out my window, and laugh". It's true, I do find it quite amazing. We get so completely conditioned by society and civilisation that we forget what we really are, in evolutionary terms. I began to find this sort of thing fascinating back when I first went to London and thought about common things with intrigue and wonderment for the first time. I remember telling Dad that I was able to find something interesting absolutely everywhere, whether it be a lamp-post or even the rust on the sign. The life that surrounds us is so complex, not only from a natural perspective but also in terms of what we've made. Don't you find what we have created amazing?

I mean, we are just another species on this planet, and our natural state is as hunter - gatherers with a primitive language and slightly advanced reasoning ability and creative talent than apes. And yet most of the visible experience we now have of the landscape is one of things we put there for a purpose. Things that, for the most part work very well and are often strikingly complex or magnificent. Of couse this is disregarding the fact we are probably screwing the natural planet up with our desire to expand, and our pathetic general inability to think longer term than our immediate needs require despite our intelligence allowing it. These are negative points both about the human condition and the state of the planet and I don't want to dwell on.

What I am getting at, is the moment you stop and marvel at literally everything that us cavemen have done over the short years we have been 'civilised'. Given that we are meant for spears and furs and fires, it really seems quite amazing when you think about everything your life is now. Looking at the world from a simple caveman perspective makes words and lifestyles and values and structures and things in general seem really rather amazing. I mean, what the fuck?! I'm on a train now, something that weighs 1000s of times more than a caveman, runs on miles and miles of steel girders, uses a giant electric motor, and carries about 700 people at 120 mph across a landscape of giant cathedrals, power lines and bridges, all created by us. And yet all a great deal of 'modern' beings care about is the latest celebrity scandal in 'The Sun'. It all seems really quite amusing, when you look around and realise you are just a caveman.