Responsibility and Expansion

Animals, NOT of the human kind, are not responsible for anything, nor are they responsible to do anything, but live every moment like it is their last moment out there in the Animal World.

  Procreation is the primary law: 

Re-population of the always-dying species. 

Animals, OF the human kind, ARE responsible for much more, and they are responsible to DO much more, but the main thing they are responsible for, and to do, is to Increase the Conversation worldwide. Their entire nervous systems have been created by Nature, or Life, to as quickly as possible, ignite the highest ends of the nervous system, particularly in the head, specifically just behind and between the eyes and ears, where thoughts and language "live, breathe and have their being." This is why, worldwide, people talk so damn much, much more than just 50 years ago, and much, much more than 100 years ago, but not as much as 50 years from now.

We can thank the needs and requirements of Great Nature - Life Itself - for evolving human brains far and wide, fast and loose, such that all the needs of the majority can (and certainly should) be satisfied with less and less physical, labor-intensive work being required by those who have the "responsibility" to produce that which everyone alive needs to survive well, and prosper, so that all of them - young and old - can think and talk and write much more than they do now. 

Look at how Computers, the Internet, Smartphones, and Social Networking have literally altered the face of the planet... in only the last 50 years, but especially in the last 25 years, and most especially in the last 5 years. Just wait 5, or 25, or 50 years from now! You won't recognize this place.

AND, that's a really good thing, because more thinking, and more talking, and more writing, requires more neural connections in the ONLY PLACE THAT MATTERS (when you come right down to it), the Mind of Man. However, it must be noted that it is mostly "horizontal", and not yet "vertical."

Horizontal Expansion of the nervous system, is what we all know already: learning to think, and talk, and write; acquiring skills, abilities, and expertise in various things; entering the Adult Workforce at some level, and becoming a reasonably responsible and qualified member of the society; and then working for years and years to support the family unit, and hopefully perhaps even a wider group out there in the world at large. That is Horizontal Expansion of the nervous system, and does NOT require any kind of "New Information" that is not easily accessible and obtainable in libraries everywhere.

Vertical Expansion of the nervous system, however, is something else entirely. ENTIRELY! New perceptions, impressions, feelings, sensations, experiences, that - in general, and as far as you can tell - other people do not know about, and do not even suspect. That is, you simply can't go to libraries anywhere, and discover the kind of "New Information" that leads to this Vertical Expansion, anymore than you would expect to go to the Prison Library to discover the Secret Escape Hatch out of the prison in which you now find yourself, "living, breathing, and having your being", however minimal it has become due to that unfortunate confinement.