I have half a dozen half-baked thoughts on a handful of things.
Some of them are about sports, some are about politics, and some are about parenting or just about getting old.

There is not a good way to get them into cohesive ideas that would constitute a cohesive full-on post.

Sometimes I just have an idea. I get a paragraph down. Then the whole thing meanders. I leave it as a draft for a year.

Two ideas I had half posts for:

1. We are all just consuming or creating content.
   • Most of us just consume. All day. Every hour. Every minute.
   • We are such consumers that we go back for the dopamine hit again and again.
   • Why don’t we take the energy to consume and instead create? Why isn’t our brain wired for the dopamine hit of CREATION versus CONSUMPTION?
   • Who are my creators out there?
     • Do you write?
     • Blog?
     • Make TikToks?
     • What?
     • What is stopping you from making more than you consume? Is it fear? Is it that you are boring? Is it that no one wants to hear from you?
2. Our culture and values are based mostly on evolutionary biology.

   • Humans are animals, and our culture is created to create a narrative around our instincts.

   • Why do male and female humans cohabit in a group?

   • Because our offspring are born weak. And to have those children survive, you need not just both parents but a tribe.

   • We are one of only a few primates who adopt children because women die in childbirth.

   • Humans are one of the only animals that will raise another parent’s offspring – why? Because parental death is common.

   • Why do we have the emotion of love? Because we need to bind families and clans together.

   • Why do we have religion? Because we need to bind society together with common myths to survive as agricultural societies.

   • Is some of this reductive? Sure. But there are truths that humans organize through. And those truths usually drill down into biological reasons.

   • Some things come from biology and deal with taboo subjects. These subjects may be good for an individual right but not for society.

     • Abortion rules
       • Pro-natal societies outbreed anti-natal ones, and over the long term replace the low birth tribes (see Romans vs Germanic Tribes).
       • Marriage rules
         • Low or no divorce leads to diverse marriage. Additionally, this allows for a wider status of males to have wives. In clans, a chief had access to all the women. He also had the right to lay with a woman before marriage. Christian marriage rights placates men and erodes clans and tribes. (Catholic faith and rules on marriage eroded Viking clans through dilution of groups and unification and kinship via the Church rather than by clan.)