tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post6643829896644260959..comments2023-11-30T00:29:08.106-08:00Comments on Animal Pharm: Love, Carnivores, Big Brain Evolution, and Mating Systems (NSFW)Dr. B Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-75014815704670408892013-01-16T00:35:44.573-08:002013-01-16T00:35:44.573-08:00Btw I hope you expand on your thoughts. Thank you ...Btw I hope you expand on your thoughts. Thank you for your comment! The dark triad sounds like neurotoxins.... Mercury, arsenic, n6, food additives, MSG, sugar, B vitamin and other nutrient depletion syndromes, and othe ADHD TRIGGERS. Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-74902121584316835602013-01-16T00:31:33.809-08:002013-01-16T00:31:33.809-08:00Really enjoyed your comments -- I've not read ...Really enjoyed your comments -- I've not read EO Wilson's r/K selection theories til now. Very fascinating. <br /><br />Yes I think we are moving away the divine feminine aspects and become severely unbalanced, away from collaboration, empathy, oxytocin, and the power that lies in celebrating nature and it's abundance. Perhaps Shlain still has relevance because I see serious neurodegeneration cultures that are predom vegetarian (China, India). Perhaps the loss of iron to subsequent generations coupled with replacing traditional fats (lard, ghee, respectively) is altering the course of our history by increasing r-traits for fast lives and abbreviated lifespans? Fast fecundity, small body size and heightened sexual maturation? Sounds like most of the Westrrn world? Our stature is shrinking, jaw occlusions abound and dental arches tighten. Even in the paleosphere, hubris, neuroticism, narcissism and psychopathy are not rare sadly. The damage is deep. Perhaps Gaia is just happy to see our fast mating strategies and shortening painful lives because we will implode on our selves eventually? Don't blame her!<br /><br />Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-19162910985844092832013-01-13T09:57:19.362-08:002013-01-13T09:57:19.362-08:00I think that evolutionary we are going opposite di...I think that evolutionary we are going opposite direction. R-selection is starting to dominate K-selection (an area of love, empathy etc.) because offpring survival doesn't require intersexual cooperation anymore. The dark triad personality is sexually preferred by women and currently there is no environmental/evolutionary pressure to downregulate that preference. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-87671601174443169882012-12-21T17:33:46.985-08:002012-12-21T17:33:46.985-08:00Thanks for the ROCKIN link.....
I didn't say ...Thanks for the ROCKIN link.....<br /><br />I didn't say it but I think it's worth pondering if the turn back to add vegetarian food source utilization from majority carnivory/seafood, did this change pair bonding? Increased polygamy? Changed food source v. changed mate sources? As Z mentioned crunchy free love hippie communes, how many of these were vegan?Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-20598067023913965942012-12-21T16:39:22.579-08:002012-12-21T16:39:22.579-08:00Just a song to go with this comment thread:
http:/...Just a song to go with this comment thread:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YSl-3Z84zQ&feature=share<br /><br />Thanks for the post - meaty as zazendo said!Puddleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00953398103675945541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-6957513897851587562012-12-20T17:15:53.380-08:002012-12-20T17:15:53.380-08:00You've transcended quite a bit my friend.You've transcended quite a bit my friend. <br /><br />Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-78968465722373157122012-12-20T16:33:37.013-08:002012-12-20T16:33:37.013-08:00I'm one of those former vegans turned Paleo.
...I'm one of those former vegans turned Paleo. <br /><br />I was going to add an Orwellian type reference in my earlier comment but resisted for want of a proper solution to the impending dystopia. :(<br /><br />My thought experiments (ok daydreams-I won't sugar coat it bc sugar is bad ;p) have been questioning things like just what the hell are we supposed to be, are we evolving on an upwards tick (so called "progress") towards higher and higher goals, or is evolution like a series of overlapping circles that has no real end game....stuff like that. <br /><br />I always get the feeling that we are lacking something important to our understanding of all this. Maybe it's me that lacks something. ;)<br /><br />I do agree that we tend to act like parasites. And I rather like the idea of a symbiotic predator-reminds me of Native Americans, Hawaiians, and other indigenous people. <br /><br />A true reverence for nature has nothing to do with what you eat and everything to do with how you live.<br /><br />I think the Industrial Revolution made reverence for nature go extinct. It seems like it made us haughty, and sort of snub nosed about the earth.<br /><br />And then we dump tankers of oil into the ocean, rape the seas of life, belch noxious chemicals into the sky, turn the ground where we grow food into a cesspool, among all the other stupid, reckless, arrogant business we conduct. <br /><br />I'm not saying that we should necessarily return to our more primitive roots-and I don't think it's possible anymore short of a post apocalypse situation-but we def need an attitude adjustment and a resetting of our internal clocks. <br /><br />I think there is a certain way, a very broad way to be sure, that all living things should conduct themselves while we occupy this place in space. <br /><br />We are not doing it right. <br />zazendohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11067622105625904584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-6264726443170295682012-12-19T16:00:52.275-08:002012-12-19T16:00:52.275-08:00Z,
MEATY!! yay. I have your SAME sentiments...Cou...Z,<br /><br />MEATY!! yay. I have your SAME sentiments...Could carnivory have really given us such great human gifts -- mind blowing pair bonding, love, romance?? Also I too wonder about the future (and deeply worry).<br /><br />Under the chapter 'Carnivory/Vegetarianism' Shlain discusses 'As hominid predators became bolder and more successful, they began to discard essential enzymatic pathways [like methylation which is energetically costly] because they could eat what they needed to maintain their health. At some point in the recent past, Homo sapiens ceased being a highly successful predator living symbiotically within its ecological niche and instead became a parasite -- a very large parasite, but a parasite nonetheless.... It could be argued that Homo sapiens has degenerated from its beginnings as a symbiotic prey to a symbiotic predator to a parasite and has now transformed into a planet-devouring pathogen.'<br /><br />More and more in 3rd world countries like China, you see the greedy taking advantage of natural resources and trashing the environment in its wake. Children are lead poisoned, villages devasted. GMO plants are affecting the intestinal permeability of all that consume and perhaps for even years or decades.... It is not good, Z.<br /><br />It is funny some of the kindest and 'evolved' that I've met to note are vegetarians (sane ones) and the paleo former-vegetarians... Our powerful minds can supercede much.<br /><br />Thank you for your insightful thoughts! Dr. B Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451872961651116061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780103924890350442.post-1755178113734290302012-12-19T08:38:55.204-08:002012-12-19T08:38:55.204-08:00That was quite the meaty post.
I think about thi...That was quite the meaty post. <br /><br />I think about this alot, wondering how all this is going to play out. <br /><br />Do we really want to adapt to a dependency on technology,herbivorous(mostly) diets, and sedentary lifestyles? What will we be giving up(selected out)?<br /><br />Then again, there is eugenics...JOKE<br /><br />Interesting though, the idea that as we became more and more carnivorous, we also became more pair-bonded. <br /><br />Take that, hippie vegan folk: <br /><br />Carnivorous living spawned love and romance. <br /><br /><br />zazendohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11067622105625904584noreply@blogger.com