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The Nature of Problems - Part 2

It has been said that if you give a monkey a peaceful stretch of jungle, and a lifetime supply of bananas, barring ill-health or physical accident, he will live quite happily for the rest of his natural life. But give a man a correspondingly ideal environment, as the Garden of Eden was said to be, and the man will get into trouble somehow! Our ability to get into trouble by creating problems for ourselves seems to be one of the great features which distinguishes man from other animals!

On this same theme, it has also been said that the only enemy man has is man. Man is a product of the universe. And the universe does not really care whether man unlocks its other secrets or not. A river, for example, has no interest in whether man uses its water to bathe, drink, or drown in. It doesn't care whether man wants to irrigate his lands, or create artificial barriers that will prove so inadequate the river is forced into washing away a town. When man succeeds in mastering the river's laws and using his knowl­edge of those laws to harness the water in the river, then the river will work for man. At the same time, if man does a faulty job of learning and causes the river to become a destructive force, then the man has succeeded in creating another problem for himself. But either way, the river does not care.

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