What if we shrunk life down to its basic elementary expression and imagined that there are elemental truths there that still exist at this stage of our living experience. What if the evolutionary principles that genes abide to, were also found at the foundation of ideas, language, fashion, social trends, economics and whatever other categories of human output you could find. What if this chaotic universe of knowledge was nothing more than just another more “evolved” expression of the principles of genetics?
I might be toying with silly ideas here, but aren’t you holding a cell phone, ipod or displaying any other behavioral signs that you are in fact copying from ideas around you? In a world where ideas are now broadcasted faster than in any other times in history, can we envision that we are entering a new age of ideological changes no longer driven by the human social network alone, but also accelerated by a vast new generation of technological mediums that speed up the replication process? Am I not writing this from a small Canadian town to reach your mind wherever it may be at this very moment?
Just as cancer genes replicate themselves regardless of the survival of the host, can we count on the “veracity” of an idea as an evolutionary edge or can ideas survive regardless of how true they are? What if truth had nothing to do with it? Would that make you wonder where your profession is going? Can you look back at the last decade of your professional life and witness that this chiropractic idea is replicating itself as fast as any other competing ideas?
Lets push these questions even further into the genetics of things. If the environment can be responsible for whether or not genes express themselves, can the social environment be responsible for the expression or non-expression of ideas? Do we live in an environment that supresses the “genetics” of the chiropractic principles? Are we going extinct here?
Don’t we wish there had been any large scale clinical trials that would have been compiling data for the last decades to help the media machine eat that information up and substantiate then replicate the ideas we hold so dear to our hearts as chiropractors?
I’ve spent nearly a decade developing such a research environment. Is the idea that the truth compiled by monitoring tens of thousands of patients irrelevant? Are we weaving a social/scientific/political environment that cares anymore?
As I write these disturbing lines, I cannot help but consider the replication mechanisms and rise from the midst of my mind the hope that we will have the wisdom to start using the new media as a solution to propagate our idea to a new height, new magnitude, new omnipresent truth to help establish the nesting environment of a myriad of new generations of ideas.
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