The Human Condition

We enter life wise with collective
memory recalled at birth and death,
squalling the grief of alienation,
loneliness that encompasses the
souls of creatures whom nature has
gifted with the survival tool of
gregariousness. Even while belonging
to family and tribe the hovering ghost
of primal fear of the unknown, the
lonely passage through life's corridors
evoked a primitive desire to discover
an all-powerful, protective and
nurturing primogenitor, leading a
brilliant mind to the device of invention
to introduce his grateful followers to
the notion of God, presented in the
extended image of Man, magnified
exponentially. God was then worshipped
for giving life to humankind, for 
offering love and guidance, unseen
but treasured on faith. When trust in
the unseen faded, humankind turned to
nature's aide, science - which gladly
introduced its aide, technology - and
yet another brilliant mind ushered
in the Age of roaming the ethernet to
banish loneliness. And the people, saved
from misery, believed and communed.