Abuse with an Excuse

There has been a lot of thought and talk about human cranial capacity, I think something new went around quite recently.

I wrote a joke/pseudoscience blog once about how the cranial size was related to bipedalism, that a massive dome kept the babies from falling out early – I know, it was a joke. Well, mostly, anyway. The idea was that the brain that filled the skull/plug was mostly just filler, not really functional, after all creatures do most of what we do with brains smaller than ours by an order of magnitude. If the whole mass was IQ, we’d all be a lot harder to confuse with the rest of the fauna around here and nobody would vote for any of these assholes.

Ha.

But I have a new joke/pseudoscience reading, in line with Antisocialization Theory.

In the Punishment Cult, everything is backwards, we do bad things to make people good, every evil humans have ever imagined has been perpetrated to steer the victims towards some good, what almost kills you makes you “better,” somehow, injuries are “strength,” health isn’t “strength,” somehow.

So you saw the title.

All that grey matter, the impressive volume of the human brain (smaller now than in antiquity, but let’s not complicate matters), this is the toilet in the American Embassy in Australia in the Simpsons universe, the Swirl-o-Matic, or whatever it was, that arranges for the appearance of no Coriolis effect, that in the damned American Embassy, the water swirls this way and not that way – that way, of course being the automatic and natural way.

All that machinery between your ears is just to turn the world upside down and make you work against it, against yourself, against everything good and natural.

OK, not funny, this one. Maybe not pseudo either.

Jeff Sept. 29^th., 2023