Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday 4 April 2010

Our skins

feel like
the skins of snakes.
We are one of only two
mammals without fur.

This evolutionary
accident was our
Original Sin.

1 comment:

Wofl said...

The other furless mammal
is The Naked Mole-rat
(Heterocephalus glaber,
also known as the Sand Puppy.
It is a blind and burrowing rodent
native to parts of East Africa,
and is remarkable also
for being the only mammal
with a social structure identical to that
of several species of ants.

Many control-enamoured
members of our species
(politicians, militarists, sociologists,
social psychologists, philosophers
and religious leaders - to name but a few)
would like to organise us
more "eusocially"

- and they are slowly
attaining their goal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat