Congirl vs Cavegirl

We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog-post with an observation: We need to choose our leaders more carefully. The world has become a pretty scary place, and when we are unsure of ourselves, we tend to pick leaders who are “win-lose” instead of “win-win.” This is an evolved human adaptation that has resulted from our species existing as a part of the food chain for as long as we did. When we are scared, we revert back to “us vs them.” My tribe over your tribe. Kill or be killed. But at this point in history, people are really one big tribe, and our leaders set the tone. So many of us are isolated, and people like mass shooters are losing their ability to relate to others.  Living alone goes against our biology. If we had not worked together as humans, we would not have made it to the top of the food chain. Some technologies allow us to exist in an isolated state, so the “other” can be strange and even terrifying. Our win-lose response kicks in - and we want to win. So we...

Can you imagine what it would be like to  not know what you looked like ? I imagine this was the case back when we humans lived in caves. Aside from seeing one’s reflection at a watering hole or in a bowl of heated animal fat, I’m not sure our Paleolithic ancestors ever had an opportunity to examine their own faces. What would that have been like? Not being aware if you had wrinkles, acne or mono-brow…and not caring even if you did? It seems that would have been pretty liberating. In fact, one of the only yard-sticks cave-dwellers could have used to physically critique each other was by how healthy another dweller looked. But considering the living conditions, everyone probably had missing teeth, scars on their face and bodies, and terrible breath. My theory is that in addition to having all your working body parts, confidence was the thing that originally made people sexy. And additionally, that confidence would have been much easier to spot way back when. Once again, I will us...