When you think about it, doesn't it seem really, really strange that certain people can sing and certain people can't? I mean obviously there are some people that just have voices that sound terrible when singing, but shouldn't we all be able to hit certain pitches? And if not that, at least have the same amount of control over our vocal chords as everyone else does?
Same thing with stuff like drawing. If we're all members of the same species, shouldn't we all have the same amount of motor control,* even if some of us are less creative? Why is there so much variety in the skills in individual human beings, physically? Not that this is a bad thing, of course, but doesn't that seem kind of weird? No? It's just me?
Do other animals have this same thing? Are there certain tigers that are just completely crap at hunting? Are there really slow fish? Or are they more similar? I don't know, I'm not a biologist. Or a zoologist. Or whatever they're calling it this week.
Actually, I think having this kind of variety would be a pretty good survival advantage. Having different skills makes the species as a whole would be difficult to hunt, due to having such massive differences in tactics, making the hunt different every time. Or maybe I don't know anything and should shut up.
*Barring disorders and other terrible stuff.
A tiger that couldn't hunt would be like a human that couldn't walk. You'd have to be pretty fucked up not to be able to walk. A human who can't draw or can't sing is like a tiger who can't make his eyes cross. It really doesn't matter to his/her survival, so it really doesn't matter whether he/she can or can't do it.
ReplyDeleteBut that's just the scientific explanation, so msg me if you need more help with the concept.
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Maybe he CAN hunt, he just sucks at it. Of course, there ARE people that can't walk. Back in the day, these people all died, but now science and wheelchairs and lack of sabretooth tigers keeps them alive.
ReplyDeleteOhh, a link to /b/. How edgy. Or it would have been, five years ago.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, anyone can sing. It's more of a conditioning thing, I think. When you hear a beautiful singer, you think "Holy crap, they're really good", not "Holy crap, they've been taking lessons three days a week since they were eight". Same with drawing. Talent only helps so much.
Not same with cooking. Some people just can't do it well. Has to do with visualizing the process. Remember Ratatouille?
Then again, Ratatouille was also the film that taught us that we apparently have incredibly intense reflexes on our hair.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I saw that movie, I thought the little short at the beginning where the aliens have trouble abducting that one guy was about the same guy who showed up in the movie. It explains his mothers death, him having to move to Paris, and why his hair is connected to every part of his body.
ReplyDeleteYeah, maybe the tractor beam had radiation in it or something.
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