On Friday 17 Feb 2012 1:39:17 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making- > you-crazy/8873/2/?single_page=true > > How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Well your worry about the cat will last only so long as it takes for you to discover what other "non human" entity has had an influence on humans. My own pet theory (pun unintended) is that you can only go so far as to try and fix what "human" is and therefore what "human" needs to be. If you loook at the theory that says that mitochondria were bugs, there would be no life as we know it if those bugs had not infected cells. Similarly try sterilizing a human being and clearing him of all bugs and then geting him to survive? No one actually has answers to such questions. No one asks because it is socio-politically necessary for all humans to be "the same" and different from animals. It is easy to get into racism once you start finding human-human differences based on different bugs. If you can have a man who has been messed up by bugs and behaves different, you can use behavior to surmise human connections with monkeys, rats or any non human life form. So it is politically necessary to have a "human" common denominator. Everything else is alien. shiv
