
Originally Posted by
Jenni
Couple thoughts. Nicholas Christakis has a theory that as we do things we get genetically adapted to them. Like drinking milk. As humans domesticated animals and had dairy as a new food source, those who adapted to the later-in-life-lactose had an advantage so that over time, we are now mostly lactose tolerant even as adults. He has other examples, like the sea nomads in the south Pacific- but I digress. My point is that if this is true, and I can see how it can be, then the fact is that as time passes and we're mostly a species of city sardines who bend to the will of politicians then we will lose the genetic adaptations for individuality. Those who can tolerate what we think of as New York life, or London, will have an advantage that will forces changes in humans as a group. In the talk I saw, he mentioned 2000 years. If that's the case, that could be what's going on. It feels like we are gradually losing our balls, as a group. Becoming too domesticated. Those of us who don't think like that look around at the others and wonder how that gap happened. How are they tolerating this shit? Idk about ya'll but I sometimes feel like I am looking at a separate species of people. Maybe we are in a way. I think I'm coming to believe that the over-domestication of people (especially men, because of their obvious physical advantages) is a serious survival issue.
Thought 2: I see a lot of people celebrating that this whole time we've been in masks the actual flu death and case rate has plummeted. Assuming that's true, isn't this a bad thing? If we're protecting ourselves for long periods of time via mask, social distancing, all the rest are we not setting ourselves up for an actual pandemic? My understanding is that the thing we know as seasonal flu is really the same strain types (terminology?) that caused the Spanish Flu situation. We just don't experience it like we did back then because of the herd immunity thing. It's out there, we just don't die in large numbers anymore. So while all the leftists are celebrating this lack of exposure (or in fairness, the lack of death associated with it) and saying it in terms of "hey we should keep this mask thing going" are we not actively weakening ourselves? Am I wrong? Does it not work that way? Is this something those in power know and are intending to do? I feel like I need to go out and roll in some mud just to be sure I get some germs, lol. (I'm kidding, I'm terrible about eating the tomatoes and berries while I'm picking them so I'm sure I've got plenty of germs.)