Speaker 1: Have you checked it out yet? Arrow dot net. It's
more than just a podcast. It is several different podcasts,
one of them being Forest Stories. I live in a
beautiful forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, A
gorgeous lake, a slow moving stream. But where did it
come from? What is the history of this forest? If
we would just take the time to share those stories,
That's what Forest Stories is all about. From Arrow dot
nete dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Hey, what's going on?
It's that guy that's always asking questions because it's really
fun to research for answers such as has there ever
been an invention where the human being wore out its welcome?
Plus food plays a very important role in this game
of overuse and abuse. My name is Arrow. I'm a
daily writer, a silent wolf. That means I stand on
the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate.
I call it the Daily Mess because it's a chronological
walk through an everyday world. It is my morning writing
as a receiver of thoughts and ideas. We as people
tend to throw things to the side because we all
think we're gonna deal with it later on. Well, when
a subject arrives inside of me. You drop everything and
get this monkey jotted down, because you know what, it's
still keeping that daily journal, and by doing the research,
the picture will become clearer. This is the daily mess.
Have there ever been any inventions where the human wore out?
It's welcome, Oh my, my, my, my mind. You know,
it's not always the invention that went bad. It's how
we tend to overuse and misuse things and then push
it from our public view. Digitally speaking, Facebook, Instagram, and
TikTok first started out as tools for human connection, but
over time, we as people felt like social media addicts.
We became distracted as well as isolated because of our
actions and reactions. This is where doom scrolling came into being.
The digital platforms haven't failed us, we are extremely guilty
of overusing them. Guess what else made this list of
things that humans have worn out? Cars and trucks, cities
have become congested, polluted, and urban design. It just can't
keep up with our reasons to endlessly change. It's who
we are. I mean, look at the twenty four hour
news cycle and what it's done to us. It's generated
a constant need for urgency. And oh my god, look
at our anxiety. It's encouraged sensationalism and left the majority
of us completely exhausted. Coming up next, what else are
we going to find on this list of things that
we have totally worn out? Does it include food? Hey,
welcome back to the daily mess human beings that do
what human beings do best. We are beautifully designed to
really overuse a lot of stuff, and that also includes
ultra processed foods. I mean, there was once a time
when McDonald's and Taco Bell were really fast. When it
came to take out food, diets changed every bit of that,
as did portion sizes in the act of getting back
to real nutrition. Guess what else is on this list
of human abuse? Nuclear technology? Oh yeah, the human realized
it had created something way too destructive to morally justify
its existence on the planet. It is said that nuclear
technology is one of the clearest cases where the invention
outpaced the human wisdom. It's not that we as humans
wear things out. We are just guilty of changing the
department of overextending our stay. We always underestimate the long
term effects. Then we find ourselves in a position of
having to discover and rediscover this thing called balance. There's
no such thing as a bad invention. It's horrible human patterns. Mmm.
I'm Marri Owen. That's the daily mess.