We are a most interesting and curious species, In spite of being the
most advanced biological marvel on the planet we are yet, merely, a work
in progress. We are blessed with consciousness, language, the most
advanced brains among and above millions of other species, yet we're
still evolving.
In spite of our evolved consciousness and miraculous brains, we're still very much, pretty primitive creatures, operating more than we realize by unconscious biological processes and instinct. We are merely chrysalises, encased in cocoons of limited self-consciousness, yet to emerge at our full potential, spread our wings and fly.
As much as we know and can each know individually, none of us has perfect knowledge of anything. Most know a microscopic bit of all that is collectively known regardless of how much intelligence or knowledge we attempt throughout our lifetimes to acquire or master.
What we don't know about 'stuff', in even the greatest minds and thinkers on the planet since the dawn of time, is millions of times more vast than all we do know. And that is true about what we know and don't know about our own selves.
What we don't know about ourselves, our bodies, our minds and the way it all works in our interactions with others like ourselves, wandering around on the planet we share we've named earth, is infinitely greater than what we do know.
Yet with our vast self-ignorance we are somehow blessed with a self-consciousness that is constantly learning and trying to figure it all out. More important yet is the totally unconscious "self-consciousness" that is constantly going on under the surface taking care of the millions of activities of biological life, like breathing, blood circulation, brain and organ functions, and functioning of reproduction and autoimmune systems. So we can survive. So we can propagate and expand and insure the survival of the species.
All the other stuff we learn from the time we're born until we leave these earthy fleshy human suits and melt back into whatever cosmic energy form in which we may or may not exist in outside of "life as we know it" is merely subsets of those two prime objectives that we all share as being a member of the homo sapiens tribe. Jobs, careers, education, commerce, invention, religion, dating, whatever and all of it, are simply learned adaptations to allow us to either 1) survive personally, socially, professionally or 2) expand the species.
Surviving personally in a world populated with a few billion others like ourselves demands we learn how to get along or avoid those situations and circumstances that put our survival at risk, so we gather in groups and share information and teach each other 'stuff' that we learned from others that came before that helps us muddle along on the path of life.
For millions of years those of us who were most evolved and adaptable to the ever-changing dynamics of the natural (and later manmade) worlds and others in it were able to pass on their knowledge of both survival and relationships to another generation. And for all that time being relatively ignorant about a lot of stuff (including ourselves and how our brains and bodies work to let us do all that stuff about surviving and making babies) was apparently, with 7 billion people on the planet pretty effective. We survived and propagated quite well and evolved and adapted (or our line died out and we didn't make it into the billions that did).
Yet today, we're at a critical time unlike any that came before since the first hominids swaggered across a grassy meadow, found a member of the opposite sex, got to 'know' each other in the Biblical sense, and raised another generation.
Until now we were all pretty equally ignorant about the inner workings that made all that possible, and we didn't need to know that. Then. So what's different?
An explosion of knowledge that was never known before by anyone is what's different now. More scientific and medical and psychological knowledge has been learned in the last 100 years or so than in all of prior human history.
With the advent of the woman's movement and greater educational, career and even physiological opportunities where our very biology itself can be manipulated and altered with advances in scientific knowledge, suddenly the entire long evolved human adaptations that involve human sexual activity are out of sync.
On the one hand, our DNA and biological programs are still operating as they have for thousands of years. Our drives, motivations and desires to come together with others and create families are unchanged. But in today's society, women now have the choice to be freed from the biological imperative in several different ways simultaneously. And that, only in the last few generations.
Suddenly, if women want children but don't like the choices of men that are in her 'world', she can buy with her newly acquired career income and independence, sperm from a bottle with a DNA profile of her choosing. Or, as many are doing, choosing one mate for genetics and another for company and companionship, increasingly, the later is of the same gender.
Or they can choose to forgo the male all together after satisfying the genetic program to bring children into the world, which the divorce rate suggests many are choosing single parenthood, now freed from financial & security dependence on a man. Or they can choose to not have children at all by taking pills or abortions or chemicals that neutralize the biological imperative in operation in ever female since "Lucy".
The bottom line is simple. Women now have choices they never did before. The implications for men are profound.
From the Book "A Man's Guide to Maker Her Feel Butterflies: Mastering the Chemistry of Love, Sex & Attraction" By David Mandios and Dan Terry available on Amazon.
In spite of our evolved consciousness and miraculous brains, we're still very much, pretty primitive creatures, operating more than we realize by unconscious biological processes and instinct. We are merely chrysalises, encased in cocoons of limited self-consciousness, yet to emerge at our full potential, spread our wings and fly.
As much as we know and can each know individually, none of us has perfect knowledge of anything. Most know a microscopic bit of all that is collectively known regardless of how much intelligence or knowledge we attempt throughout our lifetimes to acquire or master.
What we don't know about 'stuff', in even the greatest minds and thinkers on the planet since the dawn of time, is millions of times more vast than all we do know. And that is true about what we know and don't know about our own selves.
What we don't know about ourselves, our bodies, our minds and the way it all works in our interactions with others like ourselves, wandering around on the planet we share we've named earth, is infinitely greater than what we do know.
Yet with our vast self-ignorance we are somehow blessed with a self-consciousness that is constantly learning and trying to figure it all out. More important yet is the totally unconscious "self-consciousness" that is constantly going on under the surface taking care of the millions of activities of biological life, like breathing, blood circulation, brain and organ functions, and functioning of reproduction and autoimmune systems. So we can survive. So we can propagate and expand and insure the survival of the species.
All the other stuff we learn from the time we're born until we leave these earthy fleshy human suits and melt back into whatever cosmic energy form in which we may or may not exist in outside of "life as we know it" is merely subsets of those two prime objectives that we all share as being a member of the homo sapiens tribe. Jobs, careers, education, commerce, invention, religion, dating, whatever and all of it, are simply learned adaptations to allow us to either 1) survive personally, socially, professionally or 2) expand the species.
Surviving personally in a world populated with a few billion others like ourselves demands we learn how to get along or avoid those situations and circumstances that put our survival at risk, so we gather in groups and share information and teach each other 'stuff' that we learned from others that came before that helps us muddle along on the path of life.
For millions of years those of us who were most evolved and adaptable to the ever-changing dynamics of the natural (and later manmade) worlds and others in it were able to pass on their knowledge of both survival and relationships to another generation. And for all that time being relatively ignorant about a lot of stuff (including ourselves and how our brains and bodies work to let us do all that stuff about surviving and making babies) was apparently, with 7 billion people on the planet pretty effective. We survived and propagated quite well and evolved and adapted (or our line died out and we didn't make it into the billions that did).
Yet today, we're at a critical time unlike any that came before since the first hominids swaggered across a grassy meadow, found a member of the opposite sex, got to 'know' each other in the Biblical sense, and raised another generation.
Until now we were all pretty equally ignorant about the inner workings that made all that possible, and we didn't need to know that. Then. So what's different?
An explosion of knowledge that was never known before by anyone is what's different now. More scientific and medical and psychological knowledge has been learned in the last 100 years or so than in all of prior human history.
With the advent of the woman's movement and greater educational, career and even physiological opportunities where our very biology itself can be manipulated and altered with advances in scientific knowledge, suddenly the entire long evolved human adaptations that involve human sexual activity are out of sync.
On the one hand, our DNA and biological programs are still operating as they have for thousands of years. Our drives, motivations and desires to come together with others and create families are unchanged. But in today's society, women now have the choice to be freed from the biological imperative in several different ways simultaneously. And that, only in the last few generations.
Suddenly, if women want children but don't like the choices of men that are in her 'world', she can buy with her newly acquired career income and independence, sperm from a bottle with a DNA profile of her choosing. Or, as many are doing, choosing one mate for genetics and another for company and companionship, increasingly, the later is of the same gender.
Or they can choose to forgo the male all together after satisfying the genetic program to bring children into the world, which the divorce rate suggests many are choosing single parenthood, now freed from financial & security dependence on a man. Or they can choose to not have children at all by taking pills or abortions or chemicals that neutralize the biological imperative in operation in ever female since "Lucy".
The bottom line is simple. Women now have choices they never did before. The implications for men are profound.
From the Book "A Man's Guide to Maker Her Feel Butterflies: Mastering the Chemistry of Love, Sex & Attraction" By David Mandios and Dan Terry available on Amazon.
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