tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post1470029962188412699..comments2024-03-13T06:57:54.343+00:00Comments on Obnoxio The Clown: Ice AgeismObnoxio The Clownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12012089552153702526noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-8188756816922165482013-03-04T21:12:12.543+00:002013-03-04T21:12:12.543+00:00What impresses me is that Archaeologists have work...What impresses me is that Archaeologists have worked out that cave-painting, for example, was carried out in a place reserved for it, as opposed to being mere 'decoration'. Evidently, people went to visit it.Robert Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-60335857614353912672013-03-04T11:34:02.817+00:002013-03-04T11:34:02.817+00:00Love the fire comment.
Genetics would suggest it ...Love the fire comment.<br /><br />Genetics would suggest it was down to a single freaky smart arse, which might explain a lot. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve@DrZedsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-77811926099154520962013-03-03T08:41:22.099+00:002013-03-03T08:41:22.099+00:00" happened 40,000 years ago that turned us fr..." happened 40,000 years ago that turned us from apes into fully-fledged humans with such incredible talents apparently overnight?"<br /><br />A feasible theory is the controlled use of fire.<br /><br />1. The vast majority of animals die not from disease and definitely not from age but from predation. Anything not at the top of the food chain is living its life in constant low grade fear with an ever present hair triggered fight or flight response (sneak up on a cat and watch its reaction). The most vulnerable time for most animals without nocturnal vision is night time, without the ability to see in the dark you have little choice but to clamber up a tree and cling on till dawn. But fire changes all that and has a resulting cascade effect.<br /><br />Every other animal is naturally scared of fire and avoids it, so having it keeps the predators at bay.<br /><br />So now not only do you have protection you also have a way of making your food much more digestible by letting the fire do most of the processing for you.<br /><br />So now you aren't permanently shitting yourself or lying on you belly waiting hours for the acid in your belly to convert your food into energy.<br /><br />Thus fire gives you something you've never ever had before. Time. Time to think. Just time, no matter how fleeting to sit warm, dry and not scared - a privilege which has been wholly absent for literally the previous millions of years.<br /><br />So you and the others sit and stare at the fire (still one of the most primitive and satisfying pleasures to be had, be it camping or a pub on a Winter evening) and in those flickering flames the very first flickers of abstractions thought have time to form. You can start to reflect on the days events and maybe start to imagine the next.<br /><br />Is it any wonder many of our words for smarts have light heat and fire as their source?<br /><br />'enlightened', 'flash of inspiration' spark' 'bright', 'fired-up' 'glowing' <br /><br />Just a theory!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-61806467948176111582013-03-03T01:48:39.000+00:002013-03-03T01:48:39.000+00:00Absolutely stunning. I can't help feeling that...Absolutely stunning. I can't help feeling that we haven't really advanced in art since the ice age.<br /><br />And I'm not even being facetious, I really do think that the fine skill, extraordinary observations of the natural world and deep emotional insights of the ice age artists surpass almost all of the stuff we call art today. Cingoldbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14512362800274380329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-80602491462730316502013-03-02T12:41:36.428+00:002013-03-02T12:41:36.428+00:00It was indeed awesome. As so much 'primitive&#...It was indeed awesome. As so much 'primitive' art tends to be.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.com