Groove is in the Heart, but Really in the Body, Because Dance Comes from the Body…

Being at war with Iraq is setting precedent. When all the country reads, sees on television, or absorbs in everyday life is war, then it can become difficult to see anything else. Nature vs. Nurture simply states that we are a product of two things. One is our environment, and the other is our own learned perceptions about life. With recent dramatic developments in DNA research it has been all but proven that babies are not born with a blank slate. Genetics wouldn't mean anything as a science unless some DNA information is being “threaded” through bloodline. At a more distant time in history bloodline was important in family. It was the primary entity upon which was placed the decision for betrothal in a family. The Caste system in Indian by which recently a pregnant daughter and her husband were murdered by her own father is a good example of this desire for power through genes. Isn’t it interesting that recently celebrities such as Madonna and Angelina Jolie have dispensed with this notion that bloodline is important in forging a family? Did they never take the time to think that the genetically encoded information in their adopted children could be deviant? While saving a baby from starvation is admirable, what will be the long term ramifications of adopting a possible aberrant bloodline? There could be disease. There could be mental illness. There could be “extreme” behavior. Nature vs. Nurture is true and strong, and no matter how positive a child’s environment they are always predisposed to their preceding bloodline. That is not to say that every adopted child from a third world country will be a Frankenstein. It just means that if you are gambling with world genetics your chances of hitting a specific jackpot are less likely. With globalization, P.C., and the other slew of conservative right wing ideas flourishing today, it seems no one has taken the time to pontificate the possible problems of combining cultures and therefore bloodlines. While there is nothing wrong with multi-racial interaction and it should be applauded, it seems care should be taken in examining the inherent possibilities of mixed blood. Immediate gratification today has overcome almost every possibility of sustaining tradition in the United States. It really is like we are on the plains of the Wild West shooting from the hip. Are we that desperate for our survival? Schooling attempts to teach society a set of rules that have been shaped over time by others. They attempt to allow us to circumvent grievous mistakes by learning what can happen in the future if we are not prudent. The recent change of economic infrastructure in the United States has taken its toll on our traditional sense of values. How could it not when changing technology says, “You are no longer qualified to work in our company. Your skills are obsolete.” This is a ludicrous notion, and the quest for “smallness” has all but suffocated our society. Dad’s are losing their jobs, and we are shrinking what used to be our American lives into nutshells. If they make personal computers any smaller, we will have to miniaturize ourselves next to be able to use them. What is this quest to shrink the proportions of human life? Who cares how small a P.C. can become if the human being is going to remain the same size for centuries? Are we as Americans going to be subjected to body wrapping to inhibit the growth of our trunks? One reason why I refuse to use a cell phone is because the buttons are too small for human hands and fingers. Who decided this was the appropriate ergonomic model? Squint and use a needle to write E-Mails? No thanks. There was nothing wrong with the world’s traditional model of existence, and when we run out of petroleum and food it will be of no consequence how small a computer chip is. What will be important is how to grow food, build adequate sustainable shelter from the elements, and how to continue our own bloodline in the face of seeming insurmountable odds. This is what the settlers in Jamestown had to do, and the Lost Colony proves it is not an easy task. True Native Americans having braved the elements in primitive living may have been more qualified to survive. There have been many science fiction movies that depict the future state of America. Waterworld, A-1, Mad Max, and the Terminator all attempt to project an image of America in the not to distant future. All of these movies suggest world supplies of food and fuel will run out, and we will be left at the mercy of Mother Nature. It seems we might begin now trying to work with her than against her.