[Unknown Target]

General Battuta, please don't be the first to respond.



Early Western European societies regarded being pudgy or with a fine layer of fat as being attractive. Much of Europe has an obesity problem.


What sort of historic and societal trends can you think of that might explain Europe's current problem?

[General Battuta]

It's interesting how standards of beauty play into socioeconomics. When calories were scarce and it was hard to get fat, a bit of a Rubenesque tendency was a sign of affluence and wealth - much like pale skin was a sign you didn't have to work in the fields.

Now that calories are plentiful and easily achieved, athleticism has become a sign of leisure time, discipline, and wealth. When everyone can eat, and the least healthy, most fattening food is available to the poor, skinny builds are in. So are tans!

[castor]

Humans are animals designed to hunt/collect their food with minimal help from technological gadgets. Wrong tool for the job (life as it is today). 

[Unknown Target]

Humans are animals designed to hunt/collect their food with minimal help from technological gadgets. Wrong tool for the job (life as it is today). 

If that were true, then why do we place so much importance on our intellectual abilities?

[Bobboau]

because our intellectual abilities are extremely helpful when trying to hunt/collect food with minimal help from technological gadgets?

[castor]

I think intellect creates the problem, by allowing the species to evolve their ways faster than it is biologically able to adapt to.  The intellect "over drives" the progress of the species, yet fails to provide the level of control needed to tame the animal.

[General Battuta]

I think intellect creates the problem, by allowing the species to evolve their ways faster than it is biologically able to adapt to.  The intellect "over drives" the progress of the species, yet fails to provide the level of control needed to tame the animal.

 

Memetic evolution outstrips biological evolution. The logical answer is placing the reins of biological evolution in the hands of the cognitive - radical transhumanism!

[Unknown Target]

I think intellect creates the problem, by allowing the species to evolve their ways faster than it is biologically able to adapt to.  The intellect "over drives" the progress of the species, yet fails to provide the level of control needed to tame the animal.

I would imagine though that by that same token, the best way to control oneself is by using that intellectual bump. Maybe?

[Luis Dias]

Why shouldn't the brain think highly of itself?

[Mustang19]

I have this bump in the back of my head. People tell me it's really weird. Anyone else?

[Nuclear1]

I accidentally 93mb of .rar files
what should i do...is this dangerous?

[Nuke]

i liek fat chicks, they are hawt.

[Pred the Penguin]

Clearly there are other schools of thought...

I accidentally 93mb of .rar files
what should i do...is this dangerous?

What?

[General Battuta]

I have this bump in the back of my head. People tell me it's really weird. Anyone else?

Oh ****, an occipital bun?

[Nuclear1]

What?

93mb of .rar files.  The whole thing.

[Mustang19]

Yah, plus a double simian crease and I'm left handed. Also I have this weird tumor looking thing on my left middle finger.

[General Battuta]

Yah, plus a double simian crease and I'm left handed. Also I have this weird tumor looking thing on my left middle finger.

Left handed, ****, you're a member of the shorter-lived but more successful master race.

[Pred the Penguin]

What?

93mb of .rar files.  The whole thing.

You're still missing a verb...

[IceFire]

Humans are animals designed to hunt/collect their food with minimal help from technological gadgets. Wrong tool for the job (life as it is today). 

If that were true, then why do we place so much importance on our intellectual abilities?

Because we aren't the strongest or the fastest (at least over short distances... long distance is another matter) but we are pretty clever sometimes and so we're pretty good at getting together in a group, making a bunch of odd noises, and deciding that if we out flank that herd of buffalo over there we'll have enough meat for the whole tribe to eat for a week. Oh and we'll take them down with a bunch of pointy stones that we made and then afixed to a stick.

Nowadays we just have much more sophisticated pointy stones and means of attaching them to sticks

[Nuclear1]

What?

93mb of .rar files.  The whole thing.

You're still missing a verb...

HOW CAN YOU CORRECT MY GRAMMAR AT A TIME LIKE THIS?! I ACCIDENTALLY 93MB OF RAR FILES!