The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!"
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The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!"
You've heard some of the mainstream psychobable like "...modern stress is acute because we're trapped between our circumstances and our "fight or flight mentality"?
We can no longer simply kill whom or what ever it is that's stressing us out, and we can't simply run away from every problem. We have to stay put, endure, and shave weeks and months off our biological potential.
Maybe you can make an argument that a competitive activity - like racing cars - gives us a place to indulge our fight or flight -itude.
But before you get there, you had an earlier primal impulse: "I can do That!"
Exactly whether that happens before or after "That looks like fun" isn't all that important I don't think - it's nearby somewhere unless deeper darker impulses are dominant "I can do That - and then I will own all the Hot Babes!"
This is I believe where we get into trouble. "I can do That".
I can do what? Drive the car? Sure you can. It's all the rest of the operation that your little primate brain didn't think thru before you started. Thank God for Evolution - thru experience you can evolve to learn that it's really about the money.
I've managed to distinguish a few discrete steps along this evolutionary trail. Now don't get into a tizzy about missing links or anything like that. This is a relatively young science, and I'm just a dilletante.
"I can do That" - HPDE in whatever you happened to already own.
"I can do That" - Racing in whatever you happened to already own.
"I can do That" - Racing in what you've determined you can afford after nearly extinctifying yourself racing what you had before. You know...like an ITC car.
"I can do That" - Drifting - I'm alienated...Drifting is my life...I don't care if it further alienates me - Good!...Drifting is my life...All these Hot Babes are making me Tired!
I'm pretty sure that this analysis has revealed just the tip of the iceberg, but you can see that we're looking at some pretty heavy implications.
We only think we know what we're doing.
My latest theory is to try to use this inescapable inheritance to my advantage. Next time I see somebody making alot of money by working smart and hard I've gotta say "I can do That".
Scott, who has to admit that his inner primate has so far out-thunk him at every turn...
We can no longer simply kill whom or what ever it is that's stressing us out, and we can't simply run away from every problem. We have to stay put, endure, and shave weeks and months off our biological potential.
Maybe you can make an argument that a competitive activity - like racing cars - gives us a place to indulge our fight or flight -itude.
But before you get there, you had an earlier primal impulse: "I can do That!"
Exactly whether that happens before or after "That looks like fun" isn't all that important I don't think - it's nearby somewhere unless deeper darker impulses are dominant "I can do That - and then I will own all the Hot Babes!"
This is I believe where we get into trouble. "I can do That".
I can do what? Drive the car? Sure you can. It's all the rest of the operation that your little primate brain didn't think thru before you started. Thank God for Evolution - thru experience you can evolve to learn that it's really about the money.
I've managed to distinguish a few discrete steps along this evolutionary trail. Now don't get into a tizzy about missing links or anything like that. This is a relatively young science, and I'm just a dilletante.
"I can do That" - HPDE in whatever you happened to already own.
"I can do That" - Racing in whatever you happened to already own.
"I can do That" - Racing in what you've determined you can afford after nearly extinctifying yourself racing what you had before. You know...like an ITC car.
"I can do That" - Drifting - I'm alienated...Drifting is my life...I don't care if it further alienates me - Good!...Drifting is my life...All these Hot Babes are making me Tired!
I'm pretty sure that this analysis has revealed just the tip of the iceberg, but you can see that we're looking at some pretty heavy implications.
We only think we know what we're doing.
My latest theory is to try to use this inescapable inheritance to my advantage. Next time I see somebody making alot of money by working smart and hard I've gotta say "I can do That".
Scott, who has to admit that his inner primate has so far out-thunk him at every turn...
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LOL, same thing I was going to ask.
LOL, same thing I was going to ask.
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Plainly, a philosopher. Thats right, one of the great (or not so great) thinkers of our day. I didnt think we had those around anymore.
Its too bad being a thinker doesnt pay. If it did, he may be able to spend more time on the track.
Plainly, a philosopher. Thats right, one of the great (or not so great) thinkers of our day. I didnt think we had those around anymore.
Its too bad being a thinker doesnt pay. If it did, he may be able to spend more time on the track.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sean O’Gorman »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If you don't mind me asking, what is your day job?</TD></TR></TABLE>
I'm a High School guidance counselor.
I also teach Sunday School on the weekends.
And I do volunteer work at the Zoo.
I sing in a Barbershop Quartet.
And I collect Dan Gurney for President buttons - I've got 108 of them!!!!.
Scott, who is just doing this stuff to get by till I hit the big time as a professional Drift Star.
I'm a High School guidance counselor.
I also teach Sunday School on the weekends.
And I do volunteer work at the Zoo.
I sing in a Barbershop Quartet.
And I collect Dan Gurney for President buttons - I've got 108 of them!!!!.
Scott, who is just doing this stuff to get by till I hit the big time as a professional Drift Star.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
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Exactly whether that happens before or after "That looks like fun" isn't all that important I don't think - it's nearby somewhere unless deeper darker impulses are dominant "I can do That - and then I will own all the Hot Babes!"</TD></TR></TABLE>
First, you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!
Andy - who's never really understood why people say they are motivated by supposedly "primal" forces... I mean, we're humans: we think, we have jobs, we buil-Ooo! A penny!
Exactly whether that happens before or after "That looks like fun" isn't all that important I don't think - it's nearby somewhere unless deeper darker impulses are dominant "I can do That - and then I will own all the Hot Babes!"</TD></TR></TABLE>
First, you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!
Andy - who's never really understood why people say they are motivated by supposedly "primal" forces... I mean, we're humans: we think, we have jobs, we buil-Ooo! A penny!
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (maxQ)
I think Scott has some potential to replace the highly missed Peter Jennings.
btw, stop hogging that **** and pass it already
btw, stop hogging that **** and pass it already
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RR98ITR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">We only think we know what we're doing.
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No. We're just like what we're doing - until it drains us.
And all that inner-primate talk is nonsense; psycho-analytical babble keeping ivory tower academic types employed and relevant. If they were all for it, the primate paradox (if you will), you'd see them shitting behind bushes, eating with their hands and de-licing their "colleagues." Rather, you see them musing at cafes, sipping on lattes and boring us with oratories meant to convince us that what they're saying actually makes fuckall difference.
Such "theories" are mental masturbatory excercies to dull the painful reality that most of the responsibilites humans are expected to bear, suck. And theories like those, purporting a rift between man's inner whatever and his realworld suckage, allow us to assuage our utter indignation with this way of life and offer us an excuse to feel less like psychos when we come to hate the insitutions we've assembled for ourselves.
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No. We're just like what we're doing - until it drains us.
And all that inner-primate talk is nonsense; psycho-analytical babble keeping ivory tower academic types employed and relevant. If they were all for it, the primate paradox (if you will), you'd see them shitting behind bushes, eating with their hands and de-licing their "colleagues." Rather, you see them musing at cafes, sipping on lattes and boring us with oratories meant to convince us that what they're saying actually makes fuckall difference.
Such "theories" are mental masturbatory excercies to dull the painful reality that most of the responsibilites humans are expected to bear, suck. And theories like those, purporting a rift between man's inner whatever and his realworld suckage, allow us to assuage our utter indignation with this way of life and offer us an excuse to feel less like psychos when we come to hate the insitutions we've assembled for ourselves.
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I'm a High School guidance counselor.
And I do volunteer work at the Zoo.
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Are these done in the same building? LOL.
I'm a High School guidance counselor.
And I do volunteer work at the Zoo.
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Are these done in the same building? LOL.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (bb6h22a)
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No. We're just like what we're doing - until it drains us.
And all that inner-primate talk is nonsense; it's psycho-analytical babble to keep ivory tower academic types employed and relevant. If they were all for it, the primate paradox if you will, you'd see them shitting behind bushes, eating with their hands and de-licing their "colleagues." Rather, you see them musing at cafes, sipping on lattes and boring us with oratories meant to convince us that what they're saying actually makes fuckall difference.
The fact is, primal "theories" are just hogwas to dillute the painful reality that most of the responsibilites humans are expected to bear, suck. And it's theories like those that purport a rift between man's inner whatever and his realworld suckage, that assuage our utter indignation with our way of life and let us feel less like psychos when we realize we hate most of the insitutions we've assembled for ourselves.
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<sigh>....when I read something like this it just makes me want to go out Street-Drifting and cruising for Hot Babes.
Scott, who's greatest fear is irrelevance...it's a primal thing...Honda-Tech is like my own American Idol of relevance...
No. We're just like what we're doing - until it drains us.
And all that inner-primate talk is nonsense; it's psycho-analytical babble to keep ivory tower academic types employed and relevant. If they were all for it, the primate paradox if you will, you'd see them shitting behind bushes, eating with their hands and de-licing their "colleagues." Rather, you see them musing at cafes, sipping on lattes and boring us with oratories meant to convince us that what they're saying actually makes fuckall difference.
The fact is, primal "theories" are just hogwas to dillute the painful reality that most of the responsibilites humans are expected to bear, suck. And it's theories like those that purport a rift between man's inner whatever and his realworld suckage, that assuage our utter indignation with our way of life and let us feel less like psychos when we realize we hate most of the insitutions we've assembled for ourselves.
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<sigh>....when I read something like this it just makes me want to go out Street-Drifting and cruising for Hot Babes.
Scott, who's greatest fear is irrelevance...it's a primal thing...Honda-Tech is like my own American Idol of relevance...
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RR98ITR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
I'm a High School guidance counselor.
I also teach Sunday School on the weekends.
And I do volunteer work at the Zoo.
I sing in a Barbershop Quartet.
And I collect Dan Gurney for President buttons - I've got 108 of them!!!!.</TD></TR></TABLE>
This is like one of those bad tests....which is true? A? B? A, B and D? All of the above?!? It's driving my outter primate crazy.
I'm a High School guidance counselor.
I also teach Sunday School on the weekends.
And I do volunteer work at the Zoo.
I sing in a Barbershop Quartet.
And I collect Dan Gurney for President buttons - I've got 108 of them!!!!.</TD></TR></TABLE>
This is like one of those bad tests....which is true? A? B? A, B and D? All of the above?!? It's driving my outter primate crazy.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
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<sigh>....when I read something like this it just makes me want to go out Street-Drifting and cruising for Hot Babes.
Scott, who's greatest fear is irrelevance...it's a primal thing...Honda-Tech is like my own American Idol of relevance...</TD></TR></TABLE>
It's the cost of fame; the parity between somebody and nobody.
Sorry Scott, cutting too close to the skin?
<sigh>....when I read something like this it just makes me want to go out Street-Drifting and cruising for Hot Babes.
Scott, who's greatest fear is irrelevance...it's a primal thing...Honda-Tech is like my own American Idol of relevance...</TD></TR></TABLE>
It's the cost of fame; the parity between somebody and nobody.
Sorry Scott, cutting too close to the skin?
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RR98ITR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">...We can no longer simply kill whom or what ever it is that's stressing us out...</TD></TR></TABLE>
Speak for yourself, please.
Speak for yourself, please.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (bb6h22a)
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It's the cost of fame; the parity between somebody and nobody.
Sorry Scott, cutting too close to the skin?
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WTF? Are Joo saying my inner primate is a Nobody?
Scott, who...<swings at monitor>....<peeks around the back of monitor>....
It's the cost of fame; the parity between somebody and nobody.
Sorry Scott, cutting too close to the skin?
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WTF? Are Joo saying my inner primate is a Nobody?
Scott, who...<swings at monitor>....<peeks around the back of monitor>....
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
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WTF? Are Joo saying my inner primate is a Nobody?
Scott, who...<swings at monitor>....<peeks around the back of monitor>....
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No just referring to your "impulse" to abdicate all things when posed with becoming *gasp* irrelevant and go drifting and cruising for babes - maybe your innerself is tired of itself?
WTF? Are Joo saying my inner primate is a Nobody?
Scott, who...<swings at monitor>....<peeks around the back of monitor>....
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No just referring to your "impulse" to abdicate all things when posed with becoming *gasp* irrelevant and go drifting and cruising for babes - maybe your innerself is tired of itself?
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (bb6h22a)
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No just referring to your "impulse" to abdicate all things when posed with becoming *gasp* irrelevant and go drifting and cruising for babes - maybe your innerself is tired of itself?</TD></TR></TABLE>
<bawling...sobbing...weeping> "It's truuuuueeee....I can't stand it........I suck....this whole drifting thing....and all the babes......it's just an act.....and it's not making me happy......I've been empty inside......ever since I gave up on ITC....I took the easy way out......I couldn't get.....I couldn't get.....the mo-mentuuuuummmmm......<blows nose Really Hard>.....
Scott, who is thankful for this intervention....I swear - this time I really mean it - I've changed - Really.
No just referring to your "impulse" to abdicate all things when posed with becoming *gasp* irrelevant and go drifting and cruising for babes - maybe your innerself is tired of itself?</TD></TR></TABLE>
<bawling...sobbing...weeping> "It's truuuuueeee....I can't stand it........I suck....this whole drifting thing....and all the babes......it's just an act.....and it's not making me happy......I've been empty inside......ever since I gave up on ITC....I took the easy way out......I couldn't get.....I couldn't get.....the mo-mentuuuuummmmm......<blows nose Really Hard>.....
Scott, who is thankful for this intervention....I swear - this time I really mean it - I've changed - Really.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
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<bawling...sobbing...weeping> "It's truuuuueeee....I can't stand it........I suck....this whole drifting thing....and all the babes......it's just an act.....and it's not making me happy......I've been empty inside......ever since I gave up on ITC....I took the easy way out......I couldn't get.....I couldn't get.....the mo-mentuuuuummmmm......<blows nose Really Hard>.....
Scott, who is thankful for this intervention....I swear - this time I really mean it - I've changed - Really.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Damn. I think I just heard your dealer cry out with sadness... "MY Best Customer!! Damn you HONDATECH interventions. ****, who's gonna buy this kilo now?"
<bawling...sobbing...weeping> "It's truuuuueeee....I can't stand it........I suck....this whole drifting thing....and all the babes......it's just an act.....and it's not making me happy......I've been empty inside......ever since I gave up on ITC....I took the easy way out......I couldn't get.....I couldn't get.....the mo-mentuuuuummmmm......<blows nose Really Hard>.....
Scott, who is thankful for this intervention....I swear - this time I really mean it - I've changed - Really.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Damn. I think I just heard your dealer cry out with sadness... "MY Best Customer!! Damn you HONDATECH interventions. ****, who's gonna buy this kilo now?"
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
you guys are really fucked up in the head, man. really.
edit: and entertaining, too, in a trainwreck kinda way.
edit: and entertaining, too, in a trainwreck kinda way.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RacerBowie)
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Am not.
Bananas are yummy. Admit it.
Am not.
Bananas are yummy. Admit it.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (Catch 22)
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Am not.
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Bananas are very yummy, that was never in doubt. I was referring to the coyote.
Am not.
Bananas are yummy. Admit it.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Bananas are very yummy, that was never in doubt. I was referring to the coyote.
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RacerBowie)
I play a Coyote who plays an extremely strange man on the internet.
Scott, who will admit to watching too much tv as a kid...I would never watch that many shows that many times if I could do it all over again...
Scott, who will admit to watching too much tv as a kid...I would never watch that many shows that many times if I could do it all over again...
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (maxQ)
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I thought that was the spice? Or is that only if you want the Universe, not the women?
First, you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!
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I thought that was the spice? Or is that only if you want the Universe, not the women?
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Re: The primal impulses that lead us to disaster..."You're all a bunch of Primates!" (RR98ITR)
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Scott, who will admit to watching too much tv as a kid...I would never watch that many shows that many times if I could do it all over again...</TD></TR></TABLE>
Not buying the token "too much TV excuse" quit being such a victim.
Everyone together now, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ... c'mon Scott ... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds... sing it now!"
Scott, who will admit to watching too much tv as a kid...I would never watch that many shows that many times if I could do it all over again...</TD></TR></TABLE>
Not buying the token "too much TV excuse" quit being such a victim.
Everyone together now, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ... c'mon Scott ... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds... sing it now!"