Reading....and thoughts about books

Ok, maybe a tenuous link, but one of my favourite SF authors is Kim Stanley Robinson, who wrote several novels dealing with environmental change and how man adapts to these.

This is what Wikipedia says:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

The interesting bit is down in the middle bit in Science in the Capital where the writer lists things which KSR suggests we should get back in touch with.

For those not wanting to go there here's the list:

In Fifty Degrees Below (page 99) Robinson discusses neolithic activities that we, as humans, should return to in order to give us happiness, as our brains are hard-wired to enjoy such things:
walking
throwing things at things
having sex
dealing with the opposite sex
looking at fire
talking
running
dancing
singing
stalking animals
gathering plants to eat
cooking and eating
killing animals for food
experiencing terror
making your bed
looking at the moon

There's plenty there I can put a tick against .

I'll expand on this when I have time.

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