The Last Sapien | who touched the tree

Who touched the other tree ? |

It was not even breakfast - just our morning coffee ritual for quite some time now, making sure it is a good quality coffee, brewing it with the same ole' macchinetta of twenty years, the smell of the coffee goes beyond the kitchen walls and climbs up the stairs, but hey we just woke up, there is nothing in our body awake yet. Nevertheless anything to be inspired by we have our chatter about what is expected to happen and move on about our business.

This morning was a tad different, the weather is insultingly gray, it is raining, not a lovely day to start off the week, where my lovely wife whom is busier than ever these days, was stressed about a demo lesson she is about to conduct. Knowing her for so long it's that winning stress, nothing that should change our morning's first joy. But we discussed about the subject to pick during the demo, where she chose the story of Eve. Not unusual for her to talk about significant women and this one was the first. Eventually it was Eve whom made that move to pick from the tree of wisdom, tempted, seduced, she dared to cross what is forbidden. Yes, it always a thin line between bravery, courage and total foolishness where we can argue about what would that be here. Where was Adam all that time, sitting still next to an already opinionated women?

Fast forward we are in 2020 way past the passage from Eden and we face a global trauma loosing our elderly for a vicious pandemic.

So what is happening here? Any chance we have crossed yet another forbidden line? Now when wisdom is growing exponentially by virtual machines looking to concur the universe - any chance that someone has touched the other tree?

We find ways to extend our knowledge and we look into the possibility of living forever, or extending life expectancy, doing it once with antibiotics and now with researching the human genome, trying to disable that countdown clock, bringing the debate of how far should we intervene or who has the rights or should live longer than others. While science is doing what it should be, the philosophical/moral debate is touching the twigs of the other tree. Should there be aspects we should not explore - do we want to define limits to what we know, or what we learn more? Or nothing should stop us? These are big questions for a small coffee, though once in a while these worth visit to make some reality check of where should we focus more, if everything is not the immediate answer then it calls to prioritize our resources for what we know we have left behind for the sake of our knowledge race.

Care for another coffee?