I'm reading this fantastic book right now. It's called The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. It's about how we evolved from weird looking chimps, to hunters and gathers, to farmers and finally...whatever you want to entitle modern humanity. Consumers? Anyways, the book is mostly concerned about charting our evolution and finding animal precedents for some of our "unique" and strange behavior like art, drug abuse, language and genocide. It's all rather fascinating, but what I found more fascinating what Diamond didn't write about: our devolution along with out evolution. If you stripped us down and compared us to our hunter/gather ancestors, we lost something along the way. Mostly muscle mass.
I guess this my long, rambling way to say that I have to start dieting and exercising again. There are few prospects in the world that excite me less. Once you get into it and your body gets accustomed to the abuse it isn't so bad, but the first few weeks are always hell. And even though modern life has given us so, SO many advantages, it sorts of pisses me off that without a conscious attempt most of us could sit on the couch until our skin melds with the fabric. Is it really a sign of advancement that we all become the humans from Up?
I'm on the lucky end of the spectrum, since I'm 6'4, and unless I start consuming 10,000 calories a day the worst I'm going to get is a couple of love handles. Still, when we have products that allow you to eat without taking your hands out from behind the blanket, how many years until we're all just blobs weighing down the health system?
Wow...that was a rant! Anyways, guess what? I'm a little bit in demand as a writer. Nothing official right now, but a couple of nibbles that have got me pretty excited.
I will keep you updated,
Your Friend,
McGonz
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