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Rat or Boar?
[ 6 minute read ]
Opinion - WARNING - mentions self-abuse
Wild boars operate under what wildlife biologists call, 'High Reward Risk Tolerance' - when calorific payoff is high, their feeding drive overrides fear signals. I am not a psychologist, but I try to be one, so I am hugely interested in this. Hmmm...I think this fits in with the A3 pages on my wall on Uncertainty Avoidance.
What might constitute a high risk action or position in the human world that avoidance of a probable negative outcome is ignored because the payoff is so high? Sex, money and fame? All three as a package?
I think there is an underlying condition that might need to be thrown into my cement-mixer-type blender of information before I can make a mud-pie conclusion that might hold together long enough to be half-baked. The perception of risk is entirely subjective, and I happen to know from a personal conversation with a Cambridge University PhD graduate who was interested in a cure for malaria, that some rats are less afraid of cats than other rats. We'll come to that.
Applying my own knowledge of mental ill-health conditions and my attempt to revitalise the understanding of self-harm by offering that alcohol and drug abuse is self-harm and unprotected sex also falls under this category, I shall also offer speeding as being pursuant to self-harm. Driving fast is thrilling and also has a high probably of death or serious injury attached to it. I suggest that many of us might find that we resemble boars more than our parents know. If not a boar, then a rat.
Rats not being scared of cats. Toxiplamosis is a condition caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. These parasites are typically spread in cat faeces. They also have a similar two-stage life-cycle as the plasmodium parasites which cause malaria; hence the Cambridge PhD graduate thesis. So far so good, right?
One of the wonderful effects, if you are a cat, of Toxiplasmosis, is that it has a neurological effect on the intermediate host (a rat) that results in that host becoming less receptive to risk. In effect, take a dump and wait a day or two to catch some brave (stupid) rats. Unfortunately, the cat can also more easily catch some humans through the same process. Hopefully, that is not too graphic to be able to get the picture.
There's more.
Parents - if you love your children and expect them to go to parties in a car, make sure you cook your cats properly, because the Toxoplasma gondii can also be passed on in uncooked or poorly cooked meat, and in humans has the same effect as that found in brave (stupid) rats. (Don't cook cats).
The weird thing is, many governments across the world are trying to create brave super-soldiers (at least they were). What they should have been doing is creating a nation of cat-lovers. Unfortunately, that is like tying a bomb on a dog and sending it over to the enemy trenches. When it was tried the dogs tended to come back still carrying its load. The cat-loving soldiers will, while in training, drive too fast to parties where they will drink too much and have unprotected sex with other cat-lovers.
'How many do we have left, major?'
'None sir.'
'Six months training ruined practically overnight. Send the dog-lovers, and tell them to leave their dogs behind, we don't want any more accidents!'
Rules
Low Uncertainty Avoidance: People act first and then get information; Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; they work hard to minimise rules and laws that infringe on people's diverse perspectives.
Sounds like a teenager to me. One who wants to drive too fast to a party somewhere. Should they be allowed to proceed? Are they instead infested with a parasite as an intermediary host? We could set up roadside checkpoints to check to see if they perceive risk well or not; after all speeding to hopefully get into a sexual encounter in the presence of alcohol and drugs is one thing but would they do it for Bingo or another type of gambling?
'Right lads, we are going to play 'Chase the Lady' okay?'
'Yeah, yeah, let's go.'
'No, no. We use cards.'
'Whoa, bro. I'm not handing over my card. I'm not paying. See this face? I don't need to pay!'
Seated in the mobile casino, how much would a teenager gamble on a game with a known outcome when negative or positive framing is used? There would be white coated scientists everywhere; economists, marketers, psychologists, medical students, and aviation officials everywhere, prodding and poking.
Aviation officials? Of course! Never mind how drunk the pilots are; will they try to land the plane in thick fog using the autopilot or will they try to do it themselves? What are the outward and testable symptoms of a Toxiplasmosis infection?
Conversely, by the roadside:
'This young man can go, he's infected, so drinking alcohol will make no difference to his perception of risk. He will have unprotected sex whether he is drunk or not.'
'Bingo, miss? Hit or miss for you is it? Interesting. Very Interesting! Oh, wait there. You! Yes, you with the dog! Yes you, miss, you can go.'
Of course, the opening paragraph for this post comes from watching YouTube videos on the wild boar problem in the southern United States of America. The locals have learnt valuable lessons in both reducing the incidences of wild boar congregation and trapping and consequent 'culling'. Yet, there is an underlying current of understanding that, I think, many people fail to perceive. Even, if we could speak 'Wild Boarish', attempting to persuade them that a moment on the lips means a lifetime on the hips during one of the times when calorific payoff is high and their feeding drive overrides fear signals would fall on deaf ears donated by, I suspect, humans. We have to recognise that it is not just teenagers that are self-harming; I am not specifically talking about food here.
Many of us, in the Global North, eschew a healthy life-style for immediate gratification. Ivan Pavlov the Dog Whisperer (not) might have had some success in conditioning wild-boar behaviour with bells and electric shocks and so prevent some of the damage done to farmland, but it seems to me, it is humans which need constant reminders that they are indeed the very animals they despise.
'Quiet please, class 4A. Today, we are going to face reality. That's right, put your books away. Today, we are going to ask ourselves what we want to be when we grow up. Do you want to be...Quiet...Do you want to be a rat or a boar? Quiet.'
'What's the difference other than their size and shape?'
'A boar is driven by an overwhelming desire for pleasure that causes it to ignore danger and a rat takes a chance that it will not have to eat food that will ultimately bring about its demise through disease; it lives in hope. Will you gamble as a rat or just stick your head in the feed-bag. In other words, are you all in, in a game of Poker or not? Do you really care?'
'Can't we just be human?'
'No.'
'Do we have to gamble?'
'Yes. You are already playing the game.'
I have deliberately not included references or links because you probably don't want to know about Toxiplasmosis.
Rat or Boar
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Rat or Boar?
[ 6 minute read ]
Wild boars operate under what wildlife biologists call, 'High Reward Risk Tolerance' - when calorific payoff is high, their feeding drive overrides fear signals. I am not a psychologist, but I try to be one, so I am hugely interested in this. Hmmm...I think this fits in with the A3 pages on my wall on Uncertainty Avoidance.
What might constitute a high risk action or position in the human world that avoidance of a probable negative outcome is ignored because the payoff is so high? Sex, money and fame? All three as a package?
I think there is an underlying condition that might need to be thrown into my cement-mixer-type blender of information before I can make a mud-pie conclusion that might hold together long enough to be half-baked. The perception of risk is entirely subjective, and I happen to know from a personal conversation with a Cambridge University PhD graduate who was interested in a cure for malaria, that some rats are less afraid of cats than other rats. We'll come to that.
Applying my own knowledge of mental ill-health conditions and my attempt to revitalise the understanding of self-harm by offering that alcohol and drug abuse is self-harm and unprotected sex also falls under this category, I shall also offer speeding as being pursuant to self-harm. Driving fast is thrilling and also has a high probably of death or serious injury attached to it. I suggest that many of us might find that we resemble boars more than our parents know. If not a boar, then a rat.
Rats not being scared of cats. Toxiplamosis is a condition caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. These parasites are typically spread in cat faeces. They also have a similar two-stage life-cycle as the plasmodium parasites which cause malaria; hence the Cambridge PhD graduate thesis. So far so good, right?
One of the wonderful effects, if you are a cat, of Toxiplasmosis, is that it has a neurological effect on the intermediate host (a rat) that results in that host becoming less receptive to risk. In effect, take a dump and wait a day or two to catch some brave (stupid) rats. Unfortunately, the cat can also more easily catch some humans through the same process. Hopefully, that is not too graphic to be able to get the picture.
There's more.
Parents - if you love your children and expect them to go to parties in a car, make sure you cook your cats properly, because the Toxoplasma gondii can also be passed on in uncooked or poorly cooked meat, and in humans has the same effect as that found in brave (stupid) rats. (Don't cook cats).
The weird thing is, many governments across the world are trying to create brave super-soldiers (at least they were). What they should have been doing is creating a nation of cat-lovers. Unfortunately, that is like tying a bomb on a dog and sending it over to the enemy trenches. When it was tried the dogs tended to come back still carrying its load. The cat-loving soldiers will, while in training, drive too fast to parties where they will drink too much and have unprotected sex with other cat-lovers.
'How many do we have left, major?'
'None sir.'
'Six months training ruined practically overnight. Send the dog-lovers, and tell them to leave their dogs behind, we don't want any more accidents!'
Rules
Low Uncertainty Avoidance: People act first and then get information; Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; they work hard to minimise rules and laws that infringe on people's diverse perspectives.
Sounds like a teenager to me. One who wants to drive too fast to a party somewhere. Should they be allowed to proceed? Are they instead infested with a parasite as an intermediary host? We could set up roadside checkpoints to check to see if they perceive risk well or not; after all speeding to hopefully get into a sexual encounter in the presence of alcohol and drugs is one thing but would they do it for Bingo or another type of gambling?
'Right lads, we are going to play 'Chase the Lady' okay?'
'Yeah, yeah, let's go.'
'No, no. We use cards.'
'Whoa, bro. I'm not handing over my card. I'm not paying. See this face? I don't need to pay!'
Seated in the mobile casino, how much would a teenager gamble on a game with a known outcome when negative or positive framing is used? There would be white coated scientists everywhere; economists, marketers, psychologists, medical students, and aviation officials everywhere, prodding and poking.
Aviation officials? Of course! Never mind how drunk the pilots are; will they try to land the plane in thick fog using the autopilot or will they try to do it themselves? What are the outward and testable symptoms of a Toxiplasmosis infection?
Conversely, by the roadside:
'This young man can go, he's infected, so drinking alcohol will make no difference to his perception of risk. He will have unprotected sex whether he is drunk or not.'
'Bingo, miss? Hit or miss for you is it? Interesting. Very Interesting! Oh, wait there. You! Yes, you with the dog! Yes you, miss, you can go.'
Of course, the opening paragraph for this post comes from watching YouTube videos on the wild boar problem in the southern United States of America. The locals have learnt valuable lessons in both reducing the incidences of wild boar congregation and trapping and consequent 'culling'. Yet, there is an underlying current of understanding that, I think, many people fail to perceive. Even, if we could speak 'Wild Boarish', attempting to persuade them that a moment on the lips means a lifetime on the hips during one of the times when calorific payoff is high and their feeding drive overrides fear signals would fall on deaf ears donated by, I suspect, humans. We have to recognise that it is not just teenagers that are self-harming; I am not specifically talking about food here.
Many of us, in the Global North, eschew a healthy life-style for immediate gratification. Ivan Pavlov the Dog Whisperer (not) might have had some success in conditioning wild-boar behaviour with bells and electric shocks and so prevent some of the damage done to farmland, but it seems to me, it is humans which need constant reminders that they are indeed the very animals they despise.
'Quiet please, class 4A. Today, we are going to face reality. That's right, put your books away. Today, we are going to ask ourselves what we want to be when we grow up. Do you want to be...Quiet...Do you want to be a rat or a boar? Quiet.'
'What's the difference other than their size and shape?'
'A boar is driven by an overwhelming desire for pleasure that causes it to ignore danger and a rat takes a chance that it will not have to eat food that will ultimately bring about its demise through disease; it lives in hope. Will you gamble as a rat or just stick your head in the feed-bag. In other words, are you all in, in a game of Poker or not? Do you really care?'
'Can't we just be human?'
'No.'
'Do we have to gamble?'
'Yes. You are already playing the game.'
I have deliberately not included references or links because you probably don't want to know about Toxiplasmosis.