Evolution or just a drive to town?

I’m driving home after dropping the kids off at school this morning, and there is a ridiculous amount of traffic going my direction. Everyone is driving slowly because it rained earlier, so I get to “patiently” wait until I reach my exit. During that time I thought about all the cars with the people inside them, and how we rarely go anywhere without them. I live about five blocks from my local grocery shop, and yet drive there 95% of the time. Now this is not a tirade against driving, but rather asking myself the question, is transportation via vehicle such as car, bike, bus or train our next phase of evolution and we didn’t even know it?

What I mean is that in each phase of evolution it’s like we gain a new layer. We started out many billions of years ago as single celled organisms. According to Bruce Lipton (Biology of Belief quoted in an earlier article) the cells membrane acts as the brain and once they could not survive on their own, they developed communities of cells which eventually became multi-celled organisms, and TA-DA us! Each cell taking on a task or function for the community in order to protect it’s survival.

Now you may think, what does having a car have to do with evolution and survival? Stay with me for a minute and I hope to figure it out. By the way, I’m thinking and writing at the same time, so it could turn out to be complete nonsense.

Yes there are cultures that do not have vehicles, but if those communities had a choice, with affordability and accessibility, don’t you think they’d prefer to have a zippy little car to get them from town to town?

Here’s the thought behind my theory…if as a single celled organism, we joined forces with other cells to create a body, wouldn’t it make sense that now we are joining forces with other cells (of the vehicle variety) to continue our growth?

In another 7 billion years, maybe will we be compared to a hermit crab when our culture is analyzed, anthropologists will ask themselves whether or not the vehicle is part of our bone structure. Maybe that’s far fetched, but just think about it next time you go somewhere, have you already evolved and didn’t even realise it?