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Humans, for better and for worse, have a lot of mental machinery dedicated to keeping track of who is sleeping with who, whose child is whose, and whether or no
by mechanical_fish 16y ago
Humans, for better and for worse, have a lot of mental machinery dedicated to keeping track of who is sleeping with who, whose child is whose, and whether or not Group X is part of the clan. Any meme which happens to tickle those parts of our minds thereby spreads faster.
To a Vulcan, there might be no essential difference between being related to a lizard and being related to your grandmother. To a human, however, the question of whether or not some other creature is your brother-in-law or merely a distant cousin is a very big deal.
- palish 16y agoCould I hire you to follow me around and translate everything everyone is saying to me? Or possibly bribe you.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoIf I translate this right, I think you are lobbying for me to become a professional writer. ;) Thanks! I do enjoy the practicing. I'll consider it. Although it's one hell of a career, so I'll either have to think about it pretty carefully, or just accidentally find myself doing it one day without even knowing why.
- dilap 16y agoI just found this reading through your comment history, so +1 from me. :)