This is going to be the second post. The first one wound its way into the digital nowhere after I accidentally clicked the wrong button. The first one spoke of dangerous levels of alcohol and how that, sometimes, leads one to dance at country bars. I suppose it was really a brief rumination on inhibitions and why we have them.
Humans spend an intense amount of time trying to separate ourselves from other mammals. It is as if wearing clothing and toying with fire isn’t enough. We have to set folkways, mores, norms, as many rules as we can to legislate our behaviors and maintain some communal sense of right and wrong. Of course, rules are made to be broken and in every country I’ve heard about there is a place where those rules are suspended. Las Vegas holds that place in American hearts, which is how I wound up doing the Cha Cha slide in a country bar.
We need these structures, supposedly to avoid backsliding into chaos and caveman behaviors. I guess we just don’t trust ourselves with the idea of not having boundaries, much in the same way I don’t trust my kids around a plate of cookies.
Some Thoughts:
- It is odd how injuries become en vogue. This year everyone in football is getting the lisfrancs injury. I had not heard of that injury prior to this year. I wonder if it even existed?
- I want a Galaxy SIII… and a Playstation Vita. Not really on the Vita.