On Sunday 28 March 2010 13:07, Andrew Greene wrote:
> Have you ever noticed how you never see anyone who’s spirit animal is the
> dung beetle, or the carp, or the spider, or the snail, or the mole rat, or
> any other critter that’s either not cuddly or not a really cool
> mythological?
There's a bit of a selection effect in that, people who find a link to some
undesirable creature are less likely to tell someone about it. In cultures
where this sort of link is searched for, this generates a feedback loop where
people 'try on' those animals which are common first.
It's similar to how many people who believe in reincarnation have significant
previous lives. If you come to believe that you were a serf who never left
his village, a fisherman who went out in a small boat every day and a
samurai: You talk about life in service to your daimyo.
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Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 07:28:33 CDT