Reproduce

The basis of life is reproduction. We can come up with a million different complicated and subjective opinions on the classification of something as “life”, but in my mind the sole equalizer has and always will be reproduction. If an organism can reproduce itself then it is considered living, and consequently all living things have a sensible want and need for reproduction. To propagate the continuation of it’s species, to see the universe dwell with creatures of it’s own genetic base it the ultimate inner desire of every “living” thing. Humans are no different.
Everything we do, every action we partake in has the ultimate goal of reproduction. When we socialize with other humans we reproduce through our ideas, continuing ourselves through the continuation of our thoughts. When we pursue our creative talents, we reproduce through remembrance, through the immortal recognition of skill. When we have kids, we reproduce in the most accepted definition of the term, through our genes. But a bloodline is not the only way our cells see fit to reproduce, take for example the basis of a lot of human architecture.
Buldings, the bi-pedal reflections of the human anatomical form, you won’t see any sideways buildings because humans are built to be upright. Filled with arteries of hallways carrying blood vessels of employees to their destined local. Each office working like an organ, working to carry out it’s function and coordinating with other nearby offices to get the job done faster, the organ systems of the business world. Great monuments of human architecture, the Pyramids of Giza to Stonehenge, all a reflection of the human anatomical form. Hell, the NY Stock Exchange could even be considered the Hippocampus of the business world.
All our thoughts and ideas come from cells, and being what they are they combine to their ultimate soul purpose, divide. The human form is just another cell, aiming to reproduce in every way it sees fit. With the tools of a combined form, the human form, at it’s disposal the power of the cell to reproduce has lifted from genetic material to raw data, from actual physical nuclei and chromosomes to the blueprints of these organelles played out upon the larger state, the world stage. Every building, every idea, every action; all we want is to be remembered, all we want to do is reproduce.