THE BLOG OF DISQUIET :Qweir Notions,an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since2008.
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Cain and Abel
It is because the 'nuclear family' is so unnatural that men form clubs and teams and gangs. It is because the 'nuclear family' is so unnatural and stressful that men form battalions
ensuring that humans are perpetually at war.
There is also the biological 'hard-wiring' of our palæolithic brains to produce fear. When we cannot find fear in the natural environment, we create it by creating fearsome societies and fearsome human enemies (since/if we exterminated the Neanderthals). This also feeds adrenaline-addiction...
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There is also the biological 'hard-wiring' of our palæolithic brains to produce fear. When we cannot find fear in the natural environment, we create it by creating fearsome societies and fearsome human enemies (since/if we exterminated the Neanderthals). This also feeds adrenaline-addiction...
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