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• Wednesday, February 7, 2007 04:17 PM

  The Fix, The Dea, SexnFoodl

  LeCastor:

  I find that the fastest route to understanding

  social change is to read the explanations of Anthropology,

  on how and why ambiguities occur between 'traditional'

  social structures, and those based on the primacy of

  the 'individual': --ie the evolutions, the liberations, the

  declared freedoms, the legal reforms, etc which

  have occured in the last 50 yrs or so.

  Without parroting anthropology 101, (we insist on

  ignoring the known, and even the obvious, when these

  ambiguities arise), --I' ll list a few points:

  Long before we evolved from the primal muck (soup)

  2 needs dominated, (and still do, on an hour to hour basis):

  Food and sex. (so obvious, that a forest of fig leaves

  are applied to 'pretty up' the story, to assuage our

  monumental vanities). --Dragging home a rhino hind

  quarter, our neolithic guy is looking for companionship,

  and he has the advantage.

  --Much later, 3 guys (unemployed shamans probably)

  deceided to start one of those newfangled "religions"

  Hmmm, they wondered, (with utter sincerity),

  How to Fix the rules, &.... uh.... the Benefits.

  They knew anthropology 101, because they were

  living it. Food 'n Sex they mused: Food 'n Sex.

  So they built a House deco'd in DisneyLithic.

  --They reasoned that the Guys had all the Food

  concessions, owned all the Territory, and had

  a fearsome Gang of wanabees to enforce their

  privilages. So the three guys dropped over

  to a hot forest clearing, and over fermented

  fruit served (au main), by newbile, 'fertile&ready'

  staff, made 'The DEAL' (/the 'Fix'): "We will

  Skew All the 'religious' rules in favour of

  guys, (and you guys rule all the other guys), in

  exchange for protection, and a slice of the

  hommages and tributes. The guys will have

  guaranteed sex (even the most perverse).

  and Control the Food completely.

  We have Spin guys cooking the myths

  and legends into Cloud 9 and live BBQ's.

  Well, this really took off. Marriages, Tribal

  alliegences PO (pecking order) customs,

  --all of it was mashed together like flour

  and suger, but Always with the Guys

  at the Top. It worked.

  Years later, people from 'GuysFirst' religions

  and nations and some EuroRetros, found themselves

  in 'MeFirst' countries, hanging out with the

  locals, to the utter confusion and distress of

  both.

  Finally they all said the Hell with it, and ordered a

  humungous pigout, ----went home (together),

  and hit the sack. In the afterglo, the cinnamons

  and vanillas and mellowYellows and chocolates

  and 99 other flavours realized that this is how

  it all started: foodnsexfoodnsexfood, (sigh),

  That is how the whole species survived, not

  just yourtribe/mytribe. That is how 57

  varieties of loving, fused to nice and spiced

  ---They all lived 'Happily ever After' (sort of)

  "----Hey Hon, .............Whats to eat ?????"

  **Apologies, still solving edit problems**

  —ARGONNE
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