So I was sitting there watching “Nacho Libre” and I was noticing quite
a resemblence between Jack Black and my older brother who was sitting
three seats down. Near the end of the movie there was a shot of some
ancient ruins near the village and a curious thought entered my head:
We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants in just about every
way possible. Don’t roll your eyes at me, I know this topic is
overdiscussed, but I just wanted to pay some respect to the countless
people involved in creating not only the technical landscape I now find
myself, but the religious and social landscapes as well.
Sometimes we forget all of the intelligence, the inginuity and, most
importantly, the effort that has prepared the world around us for what
we have today. We should all stop every now and then and remember what
got us to the point we are. It is only in analyzing both the good and
the not-so-good of where we’ve been, that we can then use a little
inginuity of our own to advance into the future, and not just repeat
our past mistakes.