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Fear, Muscle Growth and Evolution An hypothesis: Fear, Muscle Growth and Evolution-Ron Price, Tasmania --------------- ENCOUNTER This evening I watched Encounters at the End of the World(1), a program about Antarctica and the McMurdo research station, the largest research station in Antarctica. Here 1000 men and women live together in close quarters risking their lives and their sanity in search of cutting-edge science. In this TV program viewers listen to Werner Herzog the first outsider and filmmaker to be admitted. He is accompanied only by his cameraman. This rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate 'down under' was fascinating and led me to write this prose-poem.-Ron Price with thanks to (1)Encounters at the End of the World, SBS TV, 10 November, 10:00-11:55 p.m. What caught my intellectual fancy in this aesthetic and stimulating visual display of a frozen continent and its icy waters were the words of: (a) a cell biologist describing the frightening world of small creatures---- not frightening to man but to those creatures under the ice?and his hypothesis that the 1st creatures to live on the land were driven there by fear of their life; and (b) a linguist who told of our losing several languages a day while we worried about extinction of birds and insects. Fossil evidence of animal-anthropoid tracks in dunes from around 530 MYA---like our scorpions---water-based creatures only came to the land to escape predators or possibly to mate......These creepy crawling critters came to the land while evolutionary advancements were occurring beneath the waves.....the first vertebrates--the fish---and I mused to myself on one of the thrusts of evolution: FEAR----- and in our time this fear will drive humanity to a global federation for its very survival.... ...part of what Teilhard de Chardin called our planetization and what we call globalization & which is unifying humanity faster than it knows amidst a tempest of chaos and confusion........... unpredictable and catastrophic in its effects....... Ron Price 11 November 2009 (In commemoration of the war to end all wars which ended 91 years ago today) __________________ married for 42 years, a teacher for 35 and a Baha'i for 50 |
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