Rediscovering the Ancient Primitive Technology of Cupped Hands

This primordial technology of the cupped hands that you would normally use in the modern world to maybe splash water on your face in the bathroom sink in the morning. There are still a few modern circumstances where those cupped hands are still in use. If somebody wants to share their bag of snack food, that’s a way to get it a little portion. It’s kind of a quaint technology, but, for it came into effect as I was getting down to the limits of using a galvanized small bucket or pail, bailing water out of the rain water catchment area… Once it got to a point where that was not efficient, but I did not wanna lose any of it, I cupped my hands together and that gave me the ability to get the last of it. I was surprised how effective it was, just cupping hands. I was doing that for a good 10 minutes or so. It really was a profound experience of just connecting with the most primordial tool making impulse. An application of what we inherit, our bodies, they’re evolved with a set of biological instructions that are followed in order for this 3D print out of a bio body suit to emerge. A lot of highly technical things obviously are happening autonomically, even just the way the eyes focus and track and move. The grace of all the ergonomics, the ability to stand upright and opposable thumbs. As an anthropology student, it was very formative for me in my critiques of modern technology, getting into the studies of the most ancient human tool technologies. It’s interesting to think about what some of those tools have been and and how far we have come in ways that you may not normally measure. Using only Stone Age technologies, our ancestors were able to fan out across every terrestrial ecosystem on the planet and find a way to eke out an existence and survive and live relatively harmoniously with stone tools. Permaculture helps me to free and independent and secure, by living in harmony, in a cadence with the elements to where I’m intelligently harvesting from abundance that comes in cycles. I’m just surfing these time cycles that I’m learning on a site, I’ve been here for over a year now. I’m getting better at anticipating things and optimizing and correcting my strategies. So to behold that moment, something that I’ve dreamed of for so long, of being fully off grid and off road and starting to reverse the imbalance towards a balance of living off of and living harmony with, subsisting within the within real time, solar budget, not using fossil fuels... Living by circadian rhythms and harvesting the rain when it comes, timing the cycles of the nursery and the plantings, and knowing what will make it through the winter, what will make it through the summer when I gotta do this, when I gotta do that. Adding all those tactics and strategies together, and getting them optimized to levels to where it becomes just part of the routines that span for years. So just being there with the cupped hands, I feel like this could have been a hundred thousand years ago, 200,000 years ago. Or 100,000 or 200,000 years in the future. Once upon a time, it was safe in this world to actually drink fresh water under certain circumstances. But the contamination levels are so high, even of rain water, I wouldn’t trust drinking rain water unfiltered or purified. I have with luck and skill, put myself in a situation where a lot of the madness and a lot of the catastrophe and atrocity, natural and human made disasters are just well buffered by the topography, by the dispersal of the population density, which is the lowest I’ve ever had the pleasure of living in. It makes me reflect on my earlier life utopian fantasies about going back to the land and living this way. Usually that would have involved a land project of ten to 20 or more crazy train hopper punk rock, scavenging, squatting, crusty hippies that were somehow able to put tog

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