NOT The Evolving Brian.

Having killed off my small but perfectly formed readership with by my PhD thesis I’ve strapped it to a horses back, shot it and put it up for sale. It’s a shame because it explains how all our many aspects of human foolishness are to be expected from our current particular brain function. And before you say well, der, that’s obvious, it doesn’t need a thousands words, consider the following. When you take your car in for servicing the mechanic says, “Your carburettor diaphragm has been leaking and causing petrol to seep into the air filter, which has gone back down the crankcase breather pipe into the sump and mixed with the oil. That has..” You break in and ask for the only two points you’re interested in; how much and how long. “Well basically your engine and gearbox are fucked. If I were you I’d drive it into a brick wall and claim on the insurance.” My point is the garage guy understands what’s going on but you just want the outcome. Conversely I asked my garage how much to replace the heater matrix. Same answer, more than it’s worth, but after investigation it turned out to be a blocked windscreen drain pipe; cost, nothing. For all our technical advances humanity seems deliberately uninterested in the carburettor diaphragm of our foolishness. We’ve had religious, spiritual and psychological attempts at looking at the car from the outside but no one’s written a workshop manual on how it works. Well bugger it, now you’ll just have to buy the horse. It’s on ebay, search words; “Solid-hoofed herbivorous domesticated quadruped. Condition- Dead.”