Dec 31 2009

Monkey Nuts Open Thread

A Capuchin Monkey uses a a rock and a log as hammer and anvil to crack palm nuts for food in the cerrado of Brazil.  

Banger in a comment today laments the widespread lack of use of simple rules of logic and science among humans lately.

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    • Edger on December 31, 2009 at 00:23
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    something from Capuchin monkeys in Brazilian jungles?

  2. sort of OT… I watched NOVA:  What Darwin Never Knew last night, it was fascinating. Esp segments about DNA.

  3. I used to be in a band called the Blue Monkeynuts. Our signature song was the “Eat Shit and Die Blues.”

    Sadly we didn’t get many bookings.

  4. Excerpt from Banger’s comment:

    I know that through [a]pplying simple rules of logic and science that I can arrive at a rough approximation of the truth. Why is everybody else not using these tools?

    I almost commented on this earlier in Inky 99’s  diary where the comment occured, but I chickened out.

    I liked the reasoning and analysis in Inky’s diary.  But then, in the comments by both Banger and Inky, I felt a rather disconcerting descent into — “Why am I the only one who understands this??? — Why is everyone afraid of seeing the truth??? — Why do All People insist on living in ignorance???

    I chickened out earlier today over this.  Then I wanted to say that their statements were too all-inclusive, too dogmatic, and refused to see the vast array of effort and growth and change all around us.

    True, maybe it isn’t enough to pull us through this.  Maybe it isn’t enough to save the polar bears or us or even a lot of the organic life as we know it on the planet…

    …But, for Reason’s sake, we are all in process.  We are evolving.  Many of us demonstrate that we are learning, even have learned, the lessons of the evolutionary imperative.

    I only wanted to say that whether we make it or not, whether we continue to live or kill off much of the life on the planet, just please don’t paint everyone with the broad brush of  being “too ignorant” to see what is going on.

    We are all in process.  And maybe our process is too slow to be what is needed to survive.  But do not judge us yet, not quite yet!  

    Thank you.

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