Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
Why do we need to do a campfire at night?
Perphaps this is not the right question: a better question would be “Why do we want to have a campfire at night?”. We don’t live in the wilderness anymore and, nowadays, using a campfire at night to keep beasts away is a very unusual need. Anyhow, our paleolithic ancestor still holds a place in our, let me say, deep thoughts brain area. The surface of this planet hosts many billions of humans, not just one hundred thousand as it did during that era but, sadly, the way we approach the world has not changed that much.
This makes me think about those times when we celebrate Christmas, New Year’s Eve or birthdays and the best we can do is to have unending meals that last for hours. Sounds to me like we saying “We could so easily find ourselves without food, that we MUST eat as much as possible”. Both post-modern and palaeolithic…