so here is the story of our species...
(taken from a conversation i remember having many times with an old friend)
1) Simians became sentient when they first ate mushrooms. maybe on accident while mistaking it for their own feces (where psychopsilocybin could easily grow) or maybe in the light of just being a typical animal who puts things in the mouth because the distance from hand to mouth is simply too inviting not to put things in your mouth. long story short, this exploded the consciousness of this already very intelligent animal. go try mushrooms if you disagree with me.
meta-cognitive thinking: 'the process of thinking about thinking about thinking..'
evolution begins to head in a far different direction at this point. suddenly the recognition of 'self' leads to far greater thinking. if there is me... then there must be... you? ..well ..if there is you then there must be us! BOOM -sentience.. and population of thinking-ape begins to flourish.
2) A little farther down the line, right about here in the picture, man made a great advancement. man realized the benefits of sitting and defecating.. rather than defecating while walking. disgusting but true. there must have been a moment when man began to care slightly about his own odors while trying to attract the opposite sex (who probably also had poop in her toes, but nobody is perfect). doesn't take long to figure out the benefits of sitting to defecate. aim is better and things come out cleaner. with advancements in cleanliness the need to rely on disease-carrying microscopic organisms to eat the bacteria off your poop legs. less disease and more mating advances our species greatly. small.. yet significant.
3) I like this one..
do you consider the woman depicted in this statue above to be beautiful? she is in fact venus of willendorf. this stone is said to have been carved to represent fertility. i think thats bullshit.
women probably looked a bit like this:
would you want to mate with her? maybe if she was one of about 35 women you'll ever come across in your short cave-life. maybe making love to her takes your mind off of the woes and stresses of hunting mastodon and being caught shitting while sitting by large cats who easily found you because of the smell coming only from one place.
but realistically you probably didn't have a lot of options. a guy i met yesterday told me about his travels in southern italy. he was admiring the beauty of the women (as he seems to do everywhere) and he was stunned by the amazingly unspeakable beauty of italian girls. he made a stunning notice of how italian women today look so much like the beautifully carved statues of women created thousands of years ago during great moments of interest in the arts and in perfection of human.
Venus De Milo.. beautiful
suddenly man has a greater interest in woman. its not just for survival, its for earthly pleasure. regardless of its cause, the effect is still reproduction. men become a little more handsome too because they have beautiful mothers. the old greeks and italians caught on a LONG time ago that beauty is pretty nice. as their cultures grew they had more options. there was no longer savage poop-toes women of the bush however women who represent more of this beauty above. women evolved to have very striking differences and different types of beauty. they have become so much more distinguishable from men and gods bless them for it!
4) read this book. i could not put things so much more eloquently than daniel quinn who proposes that the beginning of the end of our species came the moment we put food under lock and key. they moment we didn't hunt and gather anymore for food. the moment we locked it up and made people 'dance' (work) to buy food.. even if their job has nothing to do with food.
..yet the lock and key of food (agricultural revolution) created a boom for the advancement of our kind. progress is good, right?
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