Our need to make our environment

It is a human characteristic to affect and influence our environment. To NEED to affect and influence our environment. Even that affect seeks to preserve all or part of that environment.

We need to make our environment: microcosm or macrocosm. Small children make cubbies and make believe imaginary worlds. Teenagers make their rooms over. As adults we decorate, renovate and garden. We buy or make custom cars, boats and RVs. Some of us create virtual environments online.

We may want to clean up, we may want to leave things messy. We may want to build new buildings or engineering wonders, and we may want to prevent them being built. Or we may want to put a photo on our wall, or paint it a colour we like.

This can be seen as ego, the need to show that 'we woz 'ere'. It exists as a need beyond ego. It is simply part of what makes us human.

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