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Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo, & The Stimulus Struggle

Revolution and Ideology

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The Stimulus Struggling

The study you have, this isn't in chapter six of the human zoo, and it's on page 22. So he starts off whele, he doesn't start off, but in the second paragraph, he basically says, the object of the struggle is to obtain the optimum amount of stimulat stimulation from the environment. This does not mean the maximum amount. It is possible to be over stimulated as well as under stimulated. The optimum, or happy medium, lies somewhere between these two extremes. That is a certain level of stimulation. And if we have too little stimulation or too much stimulation, then that leads to all kinds of detrimental things which we druggle yistrus, that self

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