So after my husband figured out how to start a blog I can finally write my first blog ever.
I am very savvy with technology, it just goes to show one of the reasons I am not a regular blogger.
This is the first in depth exposure that I have had thus far in my life to this type of history. I have learned the more basic things but this is the most in depth and descriptive I have had to date.
What interested me the most while reading these first few chapters in part one was how some of the early civilizations lived together in distinctly relationship focused societies.
Although the other aspects of the chapters were also interesting such as how the first farmers and crops came to be, the relationship focus of people like the San of South Africa, was the most intriguing to me.
It seems that as the years have passed we have forgotten more and more about some of those simple things in life, such as the value of fairness and relationship. In today's day and age, we strive for more and more "things", we trample on whoever we need to get what we think we want and need, and we spend more time than even understandable on our computers (like I am doing right now) on Facebook and watching TV.
I understand and value that we need to continue to "evolve" as the human race and that without technology we would not be able to function in business in the ways we have created, but I fail to see how we, progressive human societies, over time have seemed to have lost sight of some of the most simple and valuable things like the true importance relationship.
Of course this is not true of every community and country in the world and not even true all over the United States. Not all cultures of people are always looking for the next best thing and do anything, including severing relationships to get what they want, especially in business. However since I live in the Bay Area this is the type of atmosphere I am exposed to every day, therefore I will speak to that.
I really liked the idea of small tight knit communities and the relationships that were "intensely personal" as Strayer describes. I loved the idea of no anonymity and being out in the open. I do value my alone time but I definitely thrive in social atmospheres. It must have been difficult to determine rule making and who gets what, and who get who and when.
I definitely thrive on close relationships and would not survive this crazy life and all the challenges this life brings without the vulnerable community I belong to (meaning my husband, friends and family).
I seems like it would do this world some good to get back to the basics of the early societies and really place value on fairness in decisions and all things business and valuing relationship over all things.
