The Blood is The Life 06-03-2012

[miss_s_b]

• People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say | Why the Best Candidate Never Wins | Psychology | LiveScience
  This is depressingly plausible.
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• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
  ... is apparently adopting agriculture.
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• The Reference is Lost: Stuff From Old Cartoons That Made Sense at the Time - Blog - Adult Swim
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• Lego B a t m o b i l e
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• If I don't get pants, nobody gets pants by *Theamat on deviantART
  LOL
  (tags: comics funny )
  
  
• Revealed: The best and worst places to be a woman - World Politics - World - The Independent
  (tags: feminism )
  
• The shape of things to wear: scientists identify how women's figures have changed in 50 years - This Britain - UK - The Independent
  ... and this is why more and more people are making their own clothes.
  (tags: bodyshape )
  
  

Comments

[jo]

With regards to your first link (people to stupid for democracy), you might "enjoy" this column from a Canadian journalist written in response to the latest political scandal here possibly (most likely) involving our shit Conservatives and more of their dirty tricks:

http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2012/03/robocalls-where-cynicism-meets-apathy.html

[bagpuss]

The agriculture argument is true from the perspective of the planet, much less true from the perspective of humanity as if we had never moved to agriculture there probably only be a few hundred thousand of us if that so there are lots of things we would of probably never achieved

[gwenhwyfaer]

I'm beginning to think that it won't be too much longer before humanity finds itself exactly back in that situation - and I suspect it's the only way human life on this planet can be sustained beyond a few thousand years. If we're lucky, the coming... for want of a less geeky/fictional word, tro-clon - collapsing capitalism, exponential population growth, catastrophic climate change, post-peak oil and our propensity for finding innovative and colourful ways to despatch ever larger numbers of our fellow humans in one go whenever we get a bit uncomfortable - will merely reduce what remains of humanity to a pre- or proto-agricultural state, rather than killing us off altogether; then we'll get the chance to consider a state of living which reinforces our connection to the world to which we're inextricably bound, rather than denying it to the point of cataclysm. Something a bit like that of the Piraha, perhaps. (Am I the only one who wonders whether they're the survivors of a similar, millennia-passed calamity?)