When I
was single, I often spent my waking hours developing theories as to why people
were attracted to other people (and maybe why no one was attracted to me...). I took one Psychology class and I figured I was qualified to delve deep into the human brain and pretend that Freud, Jung, and I suppose Darwin had nothing on me! But, obviously, I am not nearly as qualified and going on the theme of human attraction and interaction this week (with a bit of sciency-ness), I thought I would share some of my ideas... WITHOUT evidence to back up my theories! *gasp*
Disclaimer: These theories are in no way meant to be
offensive to anyone. They were merely acts of justification, and they
definitely require further research and revision. Please excuse my ambiguity in
these theories too.
THEORY #1:
You
know how many animals on our planet have mating rituals and mechanisms? For
example, many birds have feathers that are used to attract mates and whoever
has the best display wins the mate. Well, it is my belief that humans have
variations of these displays too, and that may be obvious but let me explain. Humans
have hair on our heads to keep our heads warm since it is one of the places
where we lose the most heat in our bodies. But, why do we feel the need to
dress it up and curl it, cut it, comb it, and spend so much time worrying about
it? Well, is it not to essentially attract a potential mate? People with
healthy, beautiful hair are often sought after more so than those who do not
necessarily take care of it. The same goes for men’s facial hair. I also read
somewhere that men who can grow fuller facial hair are generally more fertile,
so maybe females who find it attractive really attribute that to the fact that
they will make better and more babies as a primitive need to keep our species
alive. No offense ladies – I’m not saying you’re primitive creatures. But, we
must as humans still have some sort of natural tendencies left... right? This can also go for eye colour, the use of make-up (obviously), wearing accessories and clothes, how we flirt, etc etc. All of these can be compared to mating rituals all sorts of different animals do. Look it up! See if you know any people who do things similar to what you find in animals! It is actually quite funny.
THEORY #2:
Now,
this one a lot of people may take offensively, but I see it as a wonderful
evolution of the human race. We are becoming unhealthily over-populated and I
often hear people joke that “we need another plague” in order to knock down our
population a bit. It’s obvious that we are too many; the world is dying because
of us. Some countries even have population control methods (I think. This is
where I need more research). But, since there is a rise in the LGBT population –
do you think this is a more humane way of population control than killing people
off or having abortions? I mean, we’re controlling population by endorsing love
between people that naturally cannot reproduce! But, the more people we have on
our planet, the more there will be people who identify as homosexual, so there
is a simple correlation in that sense; but doesn’t it make sense that our
advanced brains devise ways in which we can slow down our population growth by not dying?
Because we are at the top of the food chain – nothing else can do that except
for disease and natural disasters, and we seem to be too smart for those to
take effect in a large way. And please don’t take this as me comparing
homosexuality to a plague, it is nothing of the sort.
THEORY #3:
Love in
itself is a beautiful concept. Two people find a sparkle in each other’s eyes
and then attempt at a future together. I have recently come to a thought that
love may be a human defense mechanism. A lot of us believe that love is one of
the main answers to the big questions of life. Love is actually a chemical
reaction in our brains that allows us to become emotionally, mentally,
spiritually, and physically attached to another individual. But then there is
also familial love, where you have this undying attachment to those who share
the same blood as you. But why do we have these attachments? Is it simply
because we love them? Or are these chemical reactions in our brains ways that
we can ensure our own safety from the dangers of the world? After all, multiple
heads are better than one, so chances of survival when there are more people in
your group (I almost said herd...) are a lot better. So, you reproduce within
these groups and then you have dependents in this group, but they grow to offer
new knowledge and talents within the group to offer more unique ways of
survival, and thus keeping the human population alive. Though, my previous
theory debunks the need for our population's survival – since there are WAY too many on
earth right now anyway – but as I said before too, we must still have some
natural inhibitions left in our brains, I mean we still have flight and fight
responses and adrenaline responses to dangerous situations. Why can’t we
consider love an ancient form of defense? I think there is something poetic
about that.
In conclusion, I don’t think that humans are that far from
our animal neighbors as we like to think we are, and that we have carried on
these primitive intuitions through the millennia which are strong and effective
mechanisms. This is proven by the mass amounts of people on our Earth today.
There may be further arguments that we have accumulated these mechanisms
through the centuries from the animals that we observe, but that is a totally
different post for another time. But there's food for thought!
Also if my dad were to have written this blog he would have
attributed all of these things to aliens.
Until next time,
Dillon
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