Human nature doesn’t change!
I was reading an old column of Stan “The Man” Lee. Stan’s soapbox is what it was called back when it was still up and running. I love reading the column on my 5 dvd set of all the Spiderman comics, I have all of them. I am actually thinking to buy the book.
The column, which you can now see as historical documents, Stan discussed racism, bigotry and ofcourse Marvel’s greatness. And Marvel are great. They are still the best when it comes to comic book writing. Sure DC has Batman and Superman, iconic characters but Marvel is what I grew up with and I still read to this day. My collection of approximately 50.000 comics are 80% Marvel.
African cave paintings
Anyway as I was typing, I was reading Stan’s Soapbox and he said something really really profound. He wrote “Human nature doesn’t change, it’s technology that changes”.
And he is right.
Technology changes but human nature stays the same. Are you afraid of dying? So were the cavemen. You ever betrayed someone? So did Judas and he did it wayy before you were born. I am sure he wasn’t the only one who fucked anyone over either. I know there are many who preceeded him. Men, women and children. Ofcourse these are the bad examples.
You got praise from your boss? So did Joseph when he finished his carpenting for clients. Are you happy with your new painting? So was the caveman who received a wall painting from his fellow neanderthalers. Bringing home the painting ofcourse became a problem and last I checked the paintings were still there but the original owner had passed away.
But with the technological progress, the way people communicated changed. Paintings became portable and praise can now be received by email. Fear of death still exists but with researches giving us insight about where we go after this I am quite hopeful that some day we will actually lose that fear too.
Should we now praise Steve Jobs for giving us the iPhone? Yes ofcourse! Without him we couldn’t have pulled off the bank heist using our iPhones or screw over my wife by calling her and tell her that “I am working late”!
