Monday, February 19, 2007

Thoughts from Ron Thomason

Accept this: humans are not designed to get up off their duffs. They are rather designed to sit on them as long as they can. Given no outside interference a human might well not “want” to get up out of the lounger until it was time to move to the couch or bed to lie down from which that human would never move unless the refrigerator or toilet called. Until very recently (in geological time) humans never needed to be self-motivated. There was always something to do it for them. In fact, until not long ago it made sense and was very healthy for a human to sit or lie and rest until one of the following occurred: a lion or other hungry thing with big teeth and claws approached; a member of the tribe was threatened, hurt, lost, or mad; any of the following needed done: roots dug, prey killed, fire built, water found and/or carried, sex demanded or desired, shelter found, young cared for, weapons made, wolf walked, or sex just desired. But we have developed in modern times drones which do all these things for us and, even better, film themselves doing it so that we can watch them on TV from the comfort of our duffs. That’s where donuts come in.
Donuts have the wonderful attribute of providing humans whose organs are all working properly with a small window of time shortly after they are consumed of making the consuming human actually “want” even “need” to do something. This opportunity must be grabbed with gusto. In very short order it will be gone and the opposite will occur; the human will “crash” and want to rest or even sleep. That is a dangerous time; never let it occur. If the moment is not grabbed the donuts win. They will make you put all your energy into storing fat instead of burning it.
Ron Thomason” drybranchone@earthlink.net

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