Stone Age

The ambulances have to have twin trumpets.

I mean, that technology came from the Stone Age when they blew into a conch shell, you know.

But so there we go.

Anyway, and there's no limit by law to how loud they can be.

Yeah, we need the whole brain, but still there's some negative emotion there.

The point is, why would evolution give toddlers and preschoolers and infants a head start in the maturation of the right hemisphere? It's because back in the Stone Age and even further back, you know, 10 million years ago, it was extremely important for little children to really track threats which come from the overall surround.

That's just a way of saying that we're very threat sensitive.

Okay,

You did not have to work at being compassionate.

It was baked in.

The conditions of living in a Stone Age band fostered that.

But now when we're all spread out, And we're interacting with people who are definitely different than us in various ways.

It's the war itself, but it's specifically every time somebody specific throws a tantrum.

We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.

The entire country can be taken out in one night, and

that night might be tomorrow night.

But more on that later.

First, I want to talk about the Stone Age.

Remember the Stone Age? Of course you don't remember the Stone Age.

It was thousands of years ago.

None of us remember the Stone Age.

And as everyone knows, the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones.

It ended because we found better ways to make tools and bowls and all the stuff we made out of stones, like metals and then later wood and now plastics and other synthetics.

But did you know that even though the Stone Age ended thousands of years ago, we use more stones today than we did at the height of the Stone Age? We never really stopped.

The clay itself is ancient, of course, but the baking process seems to be rather recent.

Well, that makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, if this pottery was made by some Stone Age tribe that still lives in

it.

Odd, though, if that's the case, that you should find no other traces of this tribe.

As some of you know, you have your sympathetic and parasympathetic systems within your body, your nervous system.

And what happens is in the early days, in the Stone Age, it was your body running away from a saber-toothed tiger.

But today...

It's what your coworker said to you or what your manager said to you in an email that doesn't allow your body to relax at night, right? So it's a biological response that's still happening, your sympathetic state.

And yet, within the last year, a lost tribe has been found on them.

living under conditions of the Stone Age.

It is only 20 years since the last of the Igorots, the headhunters, gave way before the march of communications and progress.

Old traditions run deep, and superstition dies hard.

It is protected as a national monument under the custodianship of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe and has been protected since 1936.

It contains late Stone Age sandrock paintings in sheltered caves and dramatic balancing granite formations.

You can visit.

It's likely going to be a day trip.