From: xgl (xli03@emory.edu)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 08:37:23 MDT
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> It may be that we discover that necessity is the mother of invention, and
> that only tortured souls strive to produce art, seek news worlds to explore,
> or fight for our own space. I do want to purge myself of the monkey-DNA,
> because it controls so much of my behavior. But I may find that it also
> controls my goals, and that without my neurosis, my love of life, quest for
> knowledge, or abhorrence of the mundane may also be cured.
>
thank you for so eloquently expressing what i have so viscerally
felt. indeed, sometimes i suspect that my very abhorrence of being
controlled _by_ my monkey-dna stems from the instincts coded _in_ my
monkey-dna.
that said, however, i do wonder if it is this very pessimism that
is the product of my evolutionary heritage. perhaps my mistake lies in
collapsing history into the present? perhaps i can see what i am apart
from what _caused_ me? perhaps it is only when i assume that my
particular genetic program is the _only_ coherent system to give rise to
the things i treasure -- it is only then that i feel the things that i
abhor also follows inevitably.
-x
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