Fighting Nature

How often do we seem to over complicate things?  I know I do. I do it a lot. I think that I was taught some of it from my surroundings. We've got a western society that seems to have taken things and thrown them out of whack.  Take the ages that we expect children to mature, and become responsible, for instance. Nature dictates that we're ready for family responsibilities after we've hit puberty. We used to do things that way. 15 year olds getting married have starting families weren't uncommon 2-3 generations ago.  Farmers had large families to help with the farm, the kids would get a few acres to start their own farms from, and so on, and so on.

But today's modern society says that you need to resist those natural urges, get educated, and wait until you're at least 10 years older then your grandparents or great-grandparents when you start your family. Theoretically boxing your brains and gonads until they're going to be "useful".  But that's fighting the natural flow of things isn't it?  That's trying to put a damn on natures way of doing things. And it seems to me, that the more we try to dam things up, the more pressure builds until there's a disaster.

I don't think that humanity has improved over time. In fact, I think that human nature remains basically the same over time.

Modern social evolution may not be such a good thing. But I can't imagine how we'd get along with out refrigerators and freezers.