progress

you know, sometimes i wonder how much we have actually progressed over these past few years. and going to the new low cost terminal at our airport has given me a whole new perspective on the steel and wood wonder that is KLIA or the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

how much progress have we made, you ask? well, we have traded a short walk on tarmac exposed to mother nature to a half hour train and moving walkway ride. a few glorious drops of rain or rays of sunshine to walking past countless duty free shops eager to recoup the construction costs. a stuffy, cramped, claustorphobic and complex mechanical and hydraulic sky bridge to a simple bridge pushed around by a few blokes in orange overalls. a labyrynth of conveyour belts that manages to spew out your luggage onto a huge rotesserie after another half hour, instead of a simple short and straight belt fed by hand on the other side of the wall with your luggage in five because the plane is just a few metres away.

so this is progression. making things more complex and more expensive because we can. and progressively losing our connectedness with the world around us, and of lifes simplicity.