“When the hell did advertisements get so good? They’re like narcotics” - 3 O’Clock Things, Song by AJR If you are as big a fan of Glenn Geher as I am, you may remember Cavegirl Claire. She made an appearance on his blog over a year ago giving advice on how to survive the pandemic. (And if you are reading this, perhaps you paid attention to what she had to say!) Even if you don’t remember, Claire has returned to point out another area where we modern “house-dwellers” could use a bit of advice: The realm of consumerism. Modern life can be pretty lonely, but it has not always been this way for us humans. When we were tree-dwellers, for example, we were alone in our heads, but we were not physically by ourselves (since we wandered in bands of 40-50.) Then, during the time we were cave-dwellers, we were not physically OR psychologically alo
Explaining fandom from an evolutionary point of view.