So, sitting opposite me on the train this morning were a double edged contradiction of epihpanies waiting to be epiphanised.
1st.
Why are people so weak to the common cold? Why after all this time of managing to wipe out all manner of evil evils that nature has placed in our paths as a way of culling us back and reminding us of how we aren't the most important thing on earth, can't we beat this fairly benine one?
2nd.
The first observation this morning got me thinking toward a second contradictory but still related chain of thought...
...human beings are too resilient. They have been too well designed. I think this needs a re-think for future generations. You can feed a human nothing but fags and beer and Sky tv and Wotsits for 70 odd years and it still survives. That's just plain wrong.
I reckon that when the blueprint was wheeled past the risk assesment division of mother nature's human factory back in the day, prior to signing off the design, they obviously didn't envisage plastic food (or indeed plastic in general) and overdesigned the human body to be resistant to sabre tooth tiger attack and freezing cold cave dwelling conditions to the extent that it wouldn't be felled a few thousand years later by the humble but deadly and lacking in nutrients Wotsit, Skip or Spaice Raider.
This was an oversight and was wrong. The legacy of which has meant that we are now doomed to having a world wide legion of over-old, under-nurished humans wandering about sapping our resources and consuming orange puffs for dinner.
I oppose that. Realising this is my epiphany for the day.
:roll:
1st.
Why are people so weak to the common cold? Why after all this time of managing to wipe out all manner of evil evils that nature has placed in our paths as a way of culling us back and reminding us of how we aren't the most important thing on earth, can't we beat this fairly benine one?
2nd.
The first observation this morning got me thinking toward a second contradictory but still related chain of thought...
...human beings are too resilient. They have been too well designed. I think this needs a re-think for future generations. You can feed a human nothing but fags and beer and Sky tv and Wotsits for 70 odd years and it still survives. That's just plain wrong.
I reckon that when the blueprint was wheeled past the risk assesment division of mother nature's human factory back in the day, prior to signing off the design, they obviously didn't envisage plastic food (or indeed plastic in general) and overdesigned the human body to be resistant to sabre tooth tiger attack and freezing cold cave dwelling conditions to the extent that it wouldn't be felled a few thousand years later by the humble but deadly and lacking in nutrients Wotsit, Skip or Spaice Raider.
This was an oversight and was wrong. The legacy of which has meant that we are now doomed to having a world wide legion of over-old, under-nurished humans wandering about sapping our resources and consuming orange puffs for dinner.
I oppose that. Realising this is my epiphany for the day.
:roll:
