Biologically there is great logic in emotion.
1) No animal can possibly be aware of its entire environment
2) No animal can realistically process all of the information that it is aware of
3) Hesitation is often fatal.

Thus emotions are ways that our minds have been shaped into functioning. For our ancestors, being afraid rather than curious of something really fast or bright or unfamiliar would have been the difference between life and death, while the ability to size up the health of another animal might have meant the difference between reproductive success and a disease. Our emotion are simply the most logical actions for some less derived animal make permanent; they only seem irrational now that we’ve taken them completely out of context.

Labes.

There was this great reading assigned in Anthropology about why the Myth of Elvis being alive has lasted so long in American Culture. It basically said that Consumerism has become the American Religion; Citizens believe that there are two worlds, a mundane everyday world, and a second more beautiful and more perfect existence everything is attractive, sexier, easier, and more exciting, and that you can bring yourself towards this salvation through purchases. People are every day subjected to ads making claims about this magical existence, and celebrities show the public that this god-like status is attainable, while their falls show the public that the Gods are petty and fallible.

I don’t think I can even express how great this reading was, but I’ll try and do a better job when I’m not so tired.

Bacchanal was great. How are all of you?
Goodnight friends.

posted by Adrian   [9:24 PM]

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