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tippet,
>>I agree, except for many the choice is never a conscious one. No-one wakes up and says, "Hey, you know -- my job is a lot more important to me than my wife ..." Therein lies the problem (assuming that a failed marriage is considered to be a problem).
Exactly! One should take the time to find out one's own set of values, and then live by it.
Re: The design of homo sapience
Our animal ancestry is in great conflict with modern life.
One famous example is the animal reaction to emergency situations (designed for fight or flight) - Increased heart rate and blood pressure, increased sweat, diversion of blood from internal organs (including the brain) to the limbs. This reaction is often inappropriate and sometimes dangerous in modern life emergencies and stress situations.
Take for example the ordinary morning traffic: People spend hours sitting down in their cars, have to keep a rather high level of alertness all the time (higher blood pressure etc.). If the possibility of being late to work looms over their heads then their stress level is also high. If they eat their sandwich while in the jam they are prime candidates for ulcers (low circulation of blood in the stomach). There is no natural relief for such pressures, and they build, resulting in car rage, pathological high blood pressure, heart problems and so on.
Another inappropriate reaction resulting from the same mechanism is black outs in tests (blood circulation diverted to limbs instead of brain).
The list is long. Sitting on chairs is far from being the best position for our body- it is better designed for a crouch - yet this is our position most of the day, resulting in back problems. Eye focus- we are designed for a constant shift of our eye focus. when reading a book, watching TV, or working in front of a computer screen our focus remains steady for hours. Results- headaches, short sightedness, cylindrical sight. Do you think our ancestors could have survived if severely short sighted? Yet a great %age of today's population is.
Just a few examples.
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