Some Current of Hairs

As you hold me and press your cheek against mine, you gaze over my shoulder and into my hair, your breath becomes slower and more viscous until it's more like swallowing something solid. At the point where your breath stops, everything crystallizes and there you see everyone. All your friends and everyone else dangling in a void, each one dangling by the throat on one of my hairs, each hair becoming the air that everyone you know is breathing. Or they were. It's stopped. The air in your throat sits like a half-swallowed gherkin and all your friends and everyone hangs limp as if hung like human game in space.

You breathe, my hair is moved by your breath, and it's movement brings your friends and everyone back to life. Pulling back you find I am back inside you and behind you, there in your outstretched hand is a tiny little black dot. The dot is your existence, your being. Your off-switch. You promised me everything so now I ask you to eat yourself for me. Without fear, you eat the pill.

Autism caused by 'No Cannibals'?

There is yet another hypothesis for the aetiological drivers behind autism spectrum disorders which, just like the others, blames cannibals and is ignored by the autism community, the scientific community and the blogger community alike.

This one is different, however, in that it does not require autistic people to actually be cannibals for a change. Rather, it requires that the lack of the need for humans to guard against intra-specific predation has led to a de-selection of the mental and physical tools required to keep this brain-intensive skill on the genetic 'wants list'.

It goes something like this; A long time ago, probably 107,000 years ago, give or take a tick or two, people were people and people, like spiders, eat people when hungry enough. It's not as if we were eating our own brothers and sisters. Even little dragons don't do that (well, 20% less much).

It was some folk who'd been away for rather a long time up north found their way down south and, having polished off all the bears and elephants, turned their attentions to the people who were already happily occupying the Levant. These people, the Neanderthals, were very well equipped for taking advantage of this new food source. Recognising the Levantine folk as being sentient hunters, rather than risk a head-on encounter, the Neanderthal would remain at higher altitudes undetected, approaching and watching only at night. Only after considerable observations and planning had been completed did they chance a series of night raids which eventually became known to our ancestors, and later us, as the sagas of The Watchers in the Ge'ez and Hebrew chronicles, now known as the Bible (Gen 6).

Aadi, 'we' managed to extricate ourselves from this situation, with the help of a little Neanderthal DNA which we'd acquired along the way. The development of modern empathy was crucial to this great escape. After the Neanderthal predators had been discovered and descriptions of them were circulating, they moved into a more hands-on management role and more or less established the styles of man-management we see used right up until, well, still today in fact. Bluntly, any attempt to communicate secretly with ones' co-captured kin was met with a swift and brutal extinction of the dissenting person or persons.

When we finally managed to escape, we did it with our eyes. To this day, we celebrate with football.

That period of empathic development was an anti-predator adaptation. Now that it is no longer needed, it is falling away. Our bodies are no longer convinced that we must have empathy in order to survive so nature, the mother, the father, whatever steers our beings into being, decides that empathy is too expensive to sustain, and invests in FTW instead, a condition caused by getting food tokens confused with real food without the presence of the threat of cannibalism.

How can we test this hypothesis and how would it explain:

'New Autism Research Reveals Brain Differences at 6 Months in Infants Who Develop Autism'

as well as the 'Cannibal Hypothesis' does?

the 32 times table

We are at Zero now, we always will be but that's outside the scope of this post. The first 9* are easy, the other 23** will need more research ;)

1. last year - It was all inside!
2. three years ago - Something more inside? 
3. seven years ago - CIA admits, no imminent WMD threat. Cats + Dogs = Legal
4. nineteen ninety six - JS
5. nineteen eighty - RA
6. nineteen forty eight - Human Race Guaranteed Saved.
7. eighteen eighty four - Great grandparents courting.
8. seventeen fifty six - Little Ice Age. Jacobites Evolve.
9. fifteen hundred - Renaissance
10. nine hundred and ninety two...
11. -35 What time is it?
12. -2080 Rama and Law?
13. -6180 Farming and Counting, English Channel, Cannibal Weather.
14. -14370 Japanese rope-worship. Uk Art. Fe Fi Fo Fum.
15. -30750 The Gower Chief and The Czech Venus 
16. -63500 Judgement Day and maybe running away from teeth.
17. -129000 Fire for fewer fur, or fewer fur calls for more fire?
18. -260000 A story of two peoples: The Lions and The Bears, Their Unexplained Habits.
19. -520000 Art is here,
20. -1,050,000 Monkey reaches maximum size.
21. -2,100,000 What is here, Eating Elephants first invented.
22. -4,200,000 Bye Chimps :)
23. -8,400,000 Isn't it cool that we split from the Oggs and the Pans at ~2^23?
24. -17,000,000 Gibbons goodbye!
25. -33,500,000 Cats and Pigs Rule, Mammals re-enter the water to avoid big teeth.
26. -67,000,000 Dragons slain, 'Monkey' claims responsibility. 
27. -135,000,000 Here be Dragons
28. -270,000,000 Fish leave water to avoid bigger fishes' teeth.
29. -535,000,000 - Eyes first invented, backbones invented
30. one quarter ago - Males invented 
31. half ago - Nail Bars invented
32. one ago - Females invented

* Nine for mortal men, doomed to die

** that's 3 for the elven kings, 20 for the elven queens. well what?