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Mar. 21st, 2005 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bliumchikSport was funny. Ball = bounce off tree, disperse seagulls.
Seagulls = do weird The Birds thing and fly around over our heads.
Year 11s = screaming and giggling.
We suck at softball anyway.
I spent most of my fielding time squatting on the grass staring at ants, and philosophising about the evolutionary importance of routines. We make everything as ordinary as possible because otherwise we'd be too terrified to do anything. Humanity is the most highly evolved species in the area of thinking outside routines - and we presumably have all these mental safeguards to ensure we use our amazing talent in the right context. This is why people don't like change. This is why so many people adopt an I-don't-care-about-anything attitude - it provides one all-purpose view of the world which you can apply to almost anything automatically, and you don't have to think. Of course instincts and feelings and things screw that up like hell, but this explains why so many people try. Also explains why so much of humanity is a fucking write-off - those damn safety mechanisms haven't evolved highly enough yet, and what with modern medicine they probably never will.
Seagulls = do weird The Birds thing and fly around over our heads.
Year 11s = screaming and giggling.
We suck at softball anyway.
I spent most of my fielding time squatting on the grass staring at ants, and philosophising about the evolutionary importance of routines. We make everything as ordinary as possible because otherwise we'd be too terrified to do anything. Humanity is the most highly evolved species in the area of thinking outside routines - and we presumably have all these mental safeguards to ensure we use our amazing talent in the right context. This is why people don't like change. This is why so many people adopt an I-don't-care-about-anything attitude - it provides one all-purpose view of the world which you can apply to almost anything automatically, and you don't have to think. Of course instincts and feelings and things screw that up like hell, but this explains why so many people try. Also explains why so much of humanity is a fucking write-off - those damn safety mechanisms haven't evolved highly enough yet, and what with modern medicine they probably never will.
