Week 3: The Rise of ‘Awesome’

The Rise of ‘Awesome’

Robert Lane Greene (Intelligent Life)

C.A- Everything has its own evolution even English, as it can be seen with the word awesome.

Nowadays there is a fast development due to rapid growth of technology, higher education, globalization and many more factors. However, though out the human history, overall, there was a slow development, also called evolution. Although the realization of evolution may not hit us often Greene explains that it does take place with help of one simple example, the word awesome. I agree with Greene idea that everything has its own evolution with help of theory of Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei and art.

            The most famous and the most obvious one that almost everyone will think of, when it comes to evolution is Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The book Origin of Species talks about how every organism evolved from its origin with help of natural selection. In the book he talk about theory of evolution one of the most famous and the controversial example being, human. Although some believe God made the human the why we are now, with the help of science most will agree, to some extent, that human did have our own evolution, at least with our physical structures. The physical structures of human have changes slowly overtime, adapting to the nature. This shows that even the physical structure has experienced evolution.

            Although many not agree, I believe that human’s thought has also evolved. This can be shown through Galileo Galilei. Although out Galileo’s life he argued that the earth rotated around the sun, and not verse versa, however, this theory of his was rejected by the church and left he in a brutal condition. Although the church tried to deny this fact for many year, after 350 year the Catholic Church admitted that the earth moved around the sun. Although Catholic Church’s thought has changed very slowly, it still had its own evolution as it officially accepted this theory on 1992.

            Lastly, the concept of good art changed over time. Throughout most of human history a picture that depicted the actual objects were considered a good art. However, with rise of abstract art such as, Pablo Picasso and Marten Jansen, and the development of photography, which can depict things better than pictures; the concept of ‘good’ art changed over time. Nowadays, there is not clear line of good art and bad art, as it all depends on people’s point of view. Even concept of good art had changed slowly overtime.

            Everything in the world has evolved and is still evolving, although it is so slow and small, that not many people realize it. As there are some people who believes that humans are slowly becoming hunched due to the excessive use of computer. I agree with Greene’s argument that everything evolved, even English, with help of Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei and concept of good art.