tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567723504977931374.post7182890955486496951..comments2024-03-27T21:17:37.833-07:00Comments on Titere con Bonete: Amber Alerts, Emergency Weather Alerts and Home Burglary and Dog Bites! How do we get any work done?Aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196096131750922174noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567723504977931374.post-88742102834473872852014-03-28T12:40:53.073-07:002014-03-28T12:40:53.073-07:00Great comment as always Sextant, you need to do wh...Great comment as always Sextant, you need to do what I do and copy and paste and make a blog post on you blog about this. Bergman, name of my neighbor two doors down, Gamboa, name of my next door neighbor, husband just died, wife scared to be alone in the house. Gave her a big hug with my condolences yesterday afternoon when she was picking up some things to go stay with her son. That's the compulsive hyperphiliac part of me coming out.<br /><br />But yes, you are so correct, you got the meaning of my post perfectly. We know things that we don't need to know and we know them ALL DAY LONG! There is no down time from tragedy! The saber tooth tiger is in every Facebook/Twitter post!<br /><br />As to your talk about driving and the statistics on speeds. I've often remarked to anyone that will listen how amazing I find it to be speeding down the highway at 75 miles per hour right next to others and to big rigs and how we are able to maintain that speeding car in the lane we are in. It is just astounding the human mind, how can a creature so brilliant be so stupid at times? <br /><br />Thanks for chiming in...always a pleasure and I always learn something!Aliciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18196096131750922174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567723504977931374.post-26929814801907227832014-03-28T10:33:25.825-07:002014-03-28T10:33:25.825-07:00Biologically we are an animal that should live in ...Biologically we are an animal that should live in small groups, fairly isolated from other small groups to prevent food and territory competition. We should eat things that we find in our environment that are natural. When the sun goes down, we should retire, entertain ourselves with loving sex, and we should sleep until the sun come up. Alas we have a rather well evolved brain and that brain has got us into a lot of trouble. <br /><br />First, we don't follow our circadian rhythms, with the innovation of fire and later electricity we violate our bodies' need to go to sleep when it gets dark. Second we don't eat right. Agriculture tends to feed us things that will indeed keep us alive but are not very healthful. Third we don't get the proper exercise. Most of us sit in front of some contraption. We know things that we shouldn't know, like mud slides in Washington, missing air craft in the Indian ocean, and amber alerts from Long Beach but we don't know things that we should like the last names of the people who live 2 houses down and the fact they are in pain because their adult daughter is getting a divorce. Then for the price of several days labor, we make available to damned near anyone weapons with the capacity of wiping out every one we should know in several minutes. We spend an average of an hour or so everyday driving a car that we are not really equipped to handle. Our sensory systems are designed to handle short periods of 10 MPH movement. A run, which we seldom do. We may spend an hour at 60 mph. Sixty MPH is 88 feet per second. The transition time of nerve impulses from your eye to your visual cortex is about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So at 60 MPH an event happens in front of you, you have moved 17 to 26 feet toward the problem before your brain is even has the possibility to know that something has occurred, and how many of us drive 60 MPH? Driving a car seems easy as pie, but if you want an idea of how difficult it is, think back to the first time you drove one. It is still that hard and it still extracts a measure of stress on your system. Then we load ourselves up with drugs: caffeine and alcohol and gobs of prescription drugs that the pharmaceutical industrial complex has deemed profitable for you to take. Again these things may keep you alive but they extract a cost to your system. Rather than doing sex we obsess about it, watch it done wrong on the internet, and often do it with the wrong people at the wrong time. Then we surround ourselves with contraptions that bombard us with more information than we can possibly handle. Yes it is horrific that a mud slide has killed a number of people. But what agency do you have over that problem? Other than sending some money, what can you do. And let's presume that you sent your entire year's salary, what good would it do in light of the size of the tragedy? <br /><br />The type of news that you are equipped to handle, there is a saber tooth tiger moving in on the perimeter, is something that you have agency over. A tsunami wiping out 250,000 people or swamping 6 nuclear reactors is not something you have agency over. <br /><br />We do all this stuff, yet biologically we should be out in a patch of woods foraging for nuts and berries, thinking about the lovely sex we had last night, and keeping an eye out for that saber tooth. Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.com