Spiritual Journal, 3/4/02

5:30 a.m.

When we went from audiotactile [I was listening to a Terence McKenna recording recently] to visual, our perspective became perpendicular to the natural universe. On that day, we became abstracted from nature, homo sapiens sapiens.

Somehow [this is speculation], this has something to do with this last age, this age just after the last ice age (the Holocene Thermal Maximum, as described by Julian Jaynes in Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind).

Spiritual Journal, 3/4/02

1:18 p.m.

To solve America's impending doom, we need to solve the 1984 problem. How can we escape a totalitarian democratic government?

We were in a Brave New World era (during the 1940s-1960s), but are heading dead smack into 1984.

My SO and I haven't come to an opinion about the 1984 syndrome. We don't know how a democratic populace could voluntarily undergo a revolution against an ultra-conservative capitalistic republic.

There has to be a solution, though. I feel it in my bones. Just need to figure out what parameters exist, how social groups react to crucial, acute political and cultural change.

Yahoo Health News

Glutton Maximus

Just when you think you're as stuffed as the chicken you just ate, along comes the chocolate-chip cookie-dough ice cream, and all of a sudden there's a little room left.

How does that happen?

It's because the satiety response works independently: you can be filled up on a salty food and still have room for something sweet.

According to the journal Appetite, it works for food textures, too.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, compared responses to hard and soft versions of the same foods. For example, they compared the response to an apple with applesauce, or a ham and cheese sandwich on a baguette to the same sandwich on white bread.

They found that after eating a hard meal, people were less inclined to eat a hard dessert, and after a soft meal, they were less interested in a soft dessert.