Instinct People Humans have a ton of instincts. Things that compel us to behaviors, sometimes against our will. Most of us are familiar with social instincts, and food instincts and sex instincts. But there is also a humor instinct. It makes sense from a physiological-immune system kind of way. Whenever we laugh, aside […]
Satanic Children and Killer Apes
Backpacking Trip I used to do a lot of backpacking when I was younger. One particular time we were sitting around the campfire after dinner and we saw these two small pair of eyes looking at us from about 20 or 30 yards away. Before we had gone on this backpacking trip in the […]
Fear Of Abandonment
Reunion Party I went to a reunion recently. It was a reunion with people that I hadn’t seen in a few decades and because I’m from the generation X, we grew up, we were raised in an environment with no Internet and no social media. Generation X people are a lot less likely to […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Ancient Frame Battle
Meaning Is Subjective Most farmers would agree that rain is a good thing. Most elementary school kids on a Saturday morning would agree that rain is a bad thing. Meaning is something that is very subjective, very flexible and very relative. One of the best skills you can develop is the ability to consciously […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]
Re-Calibrated Sexual Energy
Car Maintenance A couple of weeks ago I had to take my car in to get some scheduled maintenance done. I think it was a 60,000 mile maintenance and when I got it to the shop the guy was looking at the car. He had hooked up to his machines and he said there were […]
Comfort Zone Expansion
Boy Scouts When I was a kid my parents thought it was a good idea, would be a good idea for me to join Boy Scouts. First it was kind of cool we’d meet every Thursday night to Boy Scout type stuff. Then we started going camping and that was kind of cool. We […]
Brainless Human Syndrome
Why Most Of Us Can’t Think Once upon a time a very timid fellow decides to take an ocean cruise. He was very worried, as he’d never been out on the ocean. After the first couple days, he felt brave enough to venture out on the deck. But as luck would have it, as soon […]