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I hope I got this all down right
Beautiful
"I had a revelation."
"Oh, yeah?"
"Humanity is making itself psychotic."
"Uh, okay."
"I mean, the way we live is. All the tech and stuff. So far from our natural roots. Like, people with ADD make great hunters. [*] Once upon a time, they were desirable mates. Now they're medicated. And anxiety disorders? All those reactions that used to keep people alive are now embarrassing social problems. Hell, a panic attack is probably just the old inner primate looking out at the world and going, 'Holy fuck! What's all this about!' And people with reading disorders are treated like freaks, like stupid freaks, but the mind was never evolved to read, so why does it make someone stupid if they can't?"
"... You know I'd take this more seriously if you didn't have a computer in your bathroom, right?"
--Two guys talking in the food court at the mall. Farmington, NM.
* Insert here an explanation about how people with ADD are better able to pick out a creature against a backdrop (true, or just in this guy's mind? I've no way to tell), and about how sitting still and listening for hours on end was never much of a help in hunter/gatherer times. I can't recall more than the gist, so I dropped it out and only put in what I'm more sure of.
"Oh, yeah?"
"Humanity is making itself psychotic."
"Uh, okay."
"I mean, the way we live is. All the tech and stuff. So far from our natural roots. Like, people with ADD make great hunters. [*] Once upon a time, they were desirable mates. Now they're medicated. And anxiety disorders? All those reactions that used to keep people alive are now embarrassing social problems. Hell, a panic attack is probably just the old inner primate looking out at the world and going, 'Holy fuck! What's all this about!' And people with reading disorders are treated like freaks, like stupid freaks, but the mind was never evolved to read, so why does it make someone stupid if they can't?"
"... You know I'd take this more seriously if you didn't have a computer in your bathroom, right?"
--Two guys talking in the food court at the mall. Farmington, NM.
* Insert here an explanation about how people with ADD are better able to pick out a creature against a backdrop (true, or just in this guy's mind? I've no way to tell), and about how sitting still and listening for hours on end was never much of a help in hunter/gatherer times. I can't recall more than the gist, so I dropped it out and only put in what I'm more sure of.