
Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo, & The Stimulus Struggle
Revolution and Ideology
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The Bigger the Truck, the Bigger the Void
The super normal principle is widespread and penetrates almost all our endeavors in one way or another. Freed from the demands of crude survival, we ring the last drop of stimulation out of anything we can lay our hands or eyes on. The result is that we sometimes get stimulus indigestion to snag with. Making stimuli more powerful is that we run the risk of exhausting ourselves by the strength of our response. We become jaded. So, like just anything that is natural at this point, is, is taking a back seat because apparently it's not good enough. And these finding is kind of back like the assumption that we all feel like the bigger your pickup truck, the bigger
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