Solipsus

Last night I began thinking about unchartered and untouched areas, whether there were people who are completely out of our loop. Not having to deal with our current economy and credit crunch. How fascinating it would be to explore these places and see new things and whilst on this train of thought, I remembered the story of the untouched tribe in Brazil which had been photographed by a government airplane.

The thing which I thought mostly about was, back thousands of years ago, we would have been the same as them; keeping to our traditions and tribes, using our immediate environment to survive and being contempt in what the earth has given us. So what changed and made us different? Why did we feel the need to push our boundaries, meet other nationalities and tribes, whereas tribes like these are happy to keep to themselves and stick to what they have got.

Was it our greed for more land? More money? More knowledge?
Or was it simply due to population growth, expanding and meeting new people? This would of then led onto wars and created the world as it is today?

A lot of thinking, and philosophical searching which I thought was worth noting. Any views or comments? Discuss.

Ben