Are You Curious to Know ..?
1.) .. If you have Neanderthal DNA in you? If so, do you understand that you may harbor Neanderthal thinking?
The Neanderthal lineage, depending on whom you ask, may have begun 315 to 800 thousand years ago. Their uninterrupted pre-historic existence ended just 40,000 years ago. Undisputed is that the oldest fossil on record is from about 430,000 years ago. What this means is that Neanderthals had actually lived/existed for far longer interval than modern humans, so far. While a 167,000 year old fossil is considered the oldest human outside of Africa, where first homo sapiens species may have all begun, 100,000 years ago is considered the pivotal split from which we - modern humans - first emerged. We cannot, even if we collectively gather all our hubris, claim superiority over Neanderthals. They've lived for three times longer than we have, so far, and we're about to extinguish ourselves with the mere threat of climate change and racism and racial inequity. Neanderthals are thought to have perished from the sudden cooling of the earth that brought about a prolonged ice age. On the other hand, modern humans were brought up by warmer climate. That is the reason, through the wonders of adaptation, that we now have far less body hair in us, while our distant ancestors were practically covered with fur.
"Neanderthals arose in Europe after pre-humans left the African continent and apparently never made their way back south".
It is suspected that Neanderthals and homo sapiens lines may have intersected briefly, long enough for some kind of ancient inter-marriages to have occurred that remnant Neanderthal DNA had survived in us. In fact, it is surmised that we inherited some of their genes that help us fight invasive micro-organisms or provide us with immunity from certain diseases.
But, be careful, our President suspects we may still be clinging to Neanderthal thinking for protecting our borders. Neanderthals used the crudest of tools to survive for as long as they did but they were protective of their territory. I guess that is what the President meant about Neanderthal thinking.
2.) .. What "cancel culture" is doing?
Well, for one thing, feminism is under threat. Or, for that matter, gender is losing distinctiveness fast. And it is under furious assault. Being first woman vice president or president, as a distinct future possibility, is losing a special place in the annals of accomplishments because the blurring of gender delineation is clouding the social and political landscape. Out of that rubble will emerge pure neutral genders. Girl and women athletes and all past record holders can only look on while transgendered super athletes will break every world speed and strength barrier in women sports. The most noble roles, at least by old fashion standards in the nuclear family, "Mom" and "Dad", are the the latest to be cancelled, after six Dr. Seuss books are taken out of circulation. By the time this is over, statues, books and social order destructions will seem like the passing of a fashion trend. The English language will be made more doubly difficult because we may never be able to distinguish who is talking because "he", "she", "aunts" and "uncles" and all gender-specific pronouns are excised from the vocabulary. Lest we forget communist China begun with a nation wide "Cultural Revolution". Pol Pot and the Khmer Rogue went by the same playbook, except they failed to hold on to power.
3.) .. We just elected our first super president?
Judging by last night's first presidential speech, our President and his administration, by pure super powers, are solely responsible for why we have millions and millions of doses of Covid 19 vaccines, less than three months from his inauguration. It takes super amnesia to not recall that at the first issuance of a travel ban to help stop the spread of the virus, he vehemently opposed it as a then Presidential candidate, accusing the then sitting President of Xenophobic behavior. It actually takes super arrogance or selective forgetfulness to realize that vaccines take time to develop and produce because then, if he recalls the timeline involved, it would have meant giving credit to the previous administration. To not even mention the previous efforts of the last administration also takes super malice.
It also takes super nonchalance to not even hold a solo press conference to answer questions from the media. Well, that's what happens when one has super handlers to dictate and shape a super agenda. It also takes super guts to not admonish the teachers unions to go back to school to do in-person teaching, for which they are getting paid, science and the CDC findings notwithstanding. It takes super use of science to be able to determine to the exact date the time for people to begin doing small group celebrations - July 4th. Why not June 15, May 11, or perhaps tomorrow? To recall the King of Siam from the Broadway musical, "The King and I", it is "scientific" to make such pronouncements.
4.) .. That the Green New Deal could end intercontinental travel, except by ships?
Think about this. Electric airplanes? If it's all the same to all the scientific super thinkers, let's remind them that the physics of the jet engine requires fuel/air mixture at the combustion chamber to produce super-hot gasses to thrust the 404,000 pound Boeing 747 off the ground and travel thousands of miles to cross the Atlantic or Pacific. Electric powered planes will only do propeller propulsion to fly. And would you trust an electric-powered aircraft packed with rechargeable batteries to cross oceans? While jet fuel diminishes its weight over the course of the flight, batteries - fully charged or dead - will weigh the same at takeoff and landing. Jet engines allow for jet aircraft to fly and land with only one of two engines running. Electrically run propeller planes will be dead in the air. But we'll do away with air polluting jet aircraft, anyway. But wait! People like John Kerry, as he fondly described his answer to a reporter, when asked about why he uses private jets to travel. "People like me" needs to cross oceans by private jet to receive an environmental award. At least, Greta Thunberg sailed to New York on a sail boat when she made her now famous U.N. speech. But, I must end with this ..
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