tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post4820861429997060210..comments2023-10-10T05:17:55.737-07:00Comments on Crushed By Ingsoc: The Origin of Duality- The Plant and The ParasiteCrushedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-24474355253296080462008-05-31T13:53:00.000-07:002008-05-31T13:53:00.000-07:00I do agree that yes, the history of evolution has ...I do agree that yes, the history of evolution has been a strange history of progress. <br><br>But..do you think yin and yang are inseparable because of choice or need?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-36084404686537194232008-05-31T20:39:00.000-07:002008-05-31T20:39:00.000-07:00I think this post was fabulous. I know this is jum...I think this post was fabulous. I know this is jumping the gun but I was just reminded of the saying that anger is necessary because it brings about change it is motivates us. <br>Anger is perceived as a negative emotion...but without it, well, history would be completely re-written. <br><br>Ying and Yang ..it can be applied to almost everything I can think of. What would it be like with just one, but not the other? Can you reach a whole with just a half?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-28802528408854054762008-06-01T05:29:00.000-07:002008-06-01T05:29:00.000-07:00Pretty interesting.... the yang invading the yin c...Pretty interesting.... the yang invading the yin cell is a good analogy of it all; literal, and vivid...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-62056785987336439282008-06-01T14:50:00.000-07:002008-06-01T14:50:00.000-07:00Their contribution was to FREE all this surplus en...<i>Their contribution was to FREE all this surplus energy, so that men could go around hacking eachother to pieces, then putting it into verse form, so that men could find more refined ways to hunt, like sailing to India and swapping beads for tea.</i><br><br>I love this Crushed, but now unfortunately a lot of male energy is wasted sitting in front of TV or swapping improbable tales at the pub. Luckily not all of them.<br><br><i>It's time Man and Woman stood together hand in hand, as equal partners, whose efforts together created this world and acknowledged just why it is that the efforts of one half of humanity have been largely unsung.<br>And both enjoy the great future our efforts have made possible.</i><br>I could not agree more! In fact the time is long past. Great post Crushed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-91710975063405849792008-06-01T15:39:00.000-07:002008-06-01T15:39:00.000-07:00Maria- It has been, and that noticeable sppeds up ...Maria- It has been, and that noticeable sppeds up once the Eukaryote cell comes into play. Once that food chain kicks in, the rate continues to accelerate faster and faster- hence the term 'Red queen hypothesis', it refers to the bit in Alice through the looking glass where the Red Queen says that you have run faster and faster to stay still.<br><br>Ultimately, the answer is need. Evolution really is a blind watchmaker, as Dawkins says, but in the development of sexes it created an amazing way to speed up mutation rate. And the more mutations you have in any generation, the faster evolution occurs.<br><br>For example, I actually DO believe that the human brain has evolved dramatically since the start of the Neolithic. Our morphological form hasn't changed much, but I'm sure our neural pathways have changed dramatically. I'm pretty sure we process received information much faster then we did even two thousand years ago- and that our brains can store more data.<br><br>Sexual selection is the key to this. Women have tended to be more likely to be lured into bed by the cocky guy with the cheeky smile and the quick witted chat up line, than the safe bet accountant.<br><br>Women make the choices at the end of the day, THEY choose what genes should be passed on. And whilst some (Men mainly) might frown at their choices, fact is they usually make the right choices from the point of view of natural selection.<br><br>Kate- Yes- A lot more people would have lived a lot longer at the court of Henry VIII... :)<br><br>No, you can't of course. It's funny because we have so much struggled to come to terms with this duality for so long- partly because of the misguided attempt to link it the other duality.<br><br>But I think this division, being as deep as it DOES affect so much. Maybe even in our brains. Because it stands to reason, in each individual, regardless of physical sex, this dynamic must exist. Posibly the two halves of the brain really are, as some suggest, a male and a female half. Interesting to speculate on, certainly.<br><br>Eve- Well, because that is EXACTLY what happened, pretty much.<br>My view is that so much of the recent advances in molecular biology are so radical, so shocking to so many of our basic totems, that they don't filter out to the wider public, except those who re fascinated by such quesions.<br><br>Up until the seventies, all natural history was pretty much based on fosssils and studying body parts- and we couldn't go back before the Cambrian.<br>Now we really DO have a pretty much complete family tree of life, and parts of it really have shocked us.<br><br>And I think some of the implications may take a generation or so to sink in. Like the idea I've posted here.<br><br>jmb- I did like that line myself, actually. :)<br>Ah, the wastage of the male in the decline phase of Capitalism...<br>Yes, it is partly the inability of the system at present to appropriately harness any of this energy that I find symptomatic of its decline.<br><br>Yes, it IS long past, but it really WILL take a revolution in thought to truly change that. Because in spite of the apparent advance of Feminism, the basic thought patterns and societal structures that existed in pre-Feminist times remain.<br><br>I actually think there does need to be a THIRD wave of Feminism- and I know some won't like me saying this, but it has a lot to do with freeing women from male ideas of what women should be, in a sexual sense.<br><br>One of the few posts I can honestly say I'm 100% happy with. I said to another blogger, I doubt it will receive much comment- it's too involved, but I've started using saturdays when no one is around really, to post posts that are meant more to be read over a longer period of time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-35919948604429139262008-06-02T07:52:00.000-07:002008-06-02T07:52:00.000-07:00I have always been fascinated by Ying&Yang sim...I have always been fascinated by Ying&Yang simply cuz it shows that every good has a lil’ bad in it, and every bad has some good…. Its not all or nothing, most of us live in the greyzone and can change. It give us hope, and that is what makes us human.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-77449980898274100422008-06-02T07:54:00.000-07:002008-06-02T07:54:00.000-07:00Crushed, I liked this post, also, although I was s...Crushed, I liked this post, also, although I was surprised that you didn't explore the perceived duality of Yin and Yang, and all the ancient's clues (including Judeo-Christian allegories) that indicate they are not in fact polar extremes, but equal parts of the whole. I guess you did, I'm still digesting it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com