A car flying through the air a million fucking feet, so fast, so fast, and it looks like a beloved childhood toy? ZZzzzzZzzzz Borrrring. Next, I say. Mint E. Fresh wants to know why that is.
It's not amazing maybe, but almost nothing is amazing any more. It's at least pretty sweet because jumping cars and bikes and motorcycles off ramps and what not is always awesome.
I was thinking about that, why that's awesome, and how everything you get as a kid you always want to hit jumps with -- big wheel, dirt bike, sled, motorbike, skateboard, mo-ped etc. It seems obvious, now that I've thought about it for a second, but all kids must do that instinctively, right? The exhilaration seems to satisfy a very specific and maybe innate yearning for flight, or at least height.
I wonder if that yearning is innate, and if it's universal, If innate, I wonder what the evolutionary purpose of that yearning is. Maybe to make it so that people instinctively favor higher ground, so that they have a constitutional predilection to prefer ground from which they can more easily spot danger which would help ensure the passing on of genes(immons)? Perhaps that's also why cities that become skyscraper fields can seem oppressive.
Every time I fly I try to remind myself that I'm doing something the ten thousand generations born before the 20th century could only dream -- that Genghis Khan and Saladin and Alexander were all powerless to do -- but it doesn't work for very long. And once human flight becomes mundane, what the hell else is there? . What's going to compete with flying? There is no other universal, maybe innate passion shared by all of humanity that is impossible, for the moment, to satisfy, but that might be possible in the future.* Even the moon walk was kind of a wash compared to human flight, (no offense to MJ but I prefer his popping and locking shit w/the J5).
I was thinking about that, why that's awesome, and how everything you get as a kid you always want to hit jumps with -- big wheel, dirt bike, sled, motorbike, skateboard, mo-ped etc. It seems obvious, now that I've thought about it for a second, but all kids must do that instinctively, right? The exhilaration seems to satisfy a very specific and maybe innate yearning for flight, or at least height.
I wonder if that yearning is innate, and if it's universal, If innate, I wonder what the evolutionary purpose of that yearning is. Maybe to make it so that people instinctively favor higher ground, so that they have a constitutional predilection to prefer ground from which they can more easily spot danger which would help ensure the passing on of genes(immons)? Perhaps that's also why cities that become skyscraper fields can seem oppressive.
Every time I fly I try to remind myself that I'm doing something the ten thousand generations born before the 20th century could only dream -- that Genghis Khan and Saladin and Alexander were all powerless to do -- but it doesn't work for very long. And once human flight becomes mundane, what the hell else is there? . What's going to compete with flying? There is no other universal, maybe innate passion shared by all of humanity that is impossible, for the moment, to satisfy, but that might be possible in the future.* Even the moon walk was kind of a wash compared to human flight, (no offense to MJ but I prefer his popping and locking shit w/the J5).
Also, the Blue Angels came to the Worcester, MA airport once in the early eighties and then blacklisted the city from their tours after because all their helmets got stolen.
--MINT E. FRESH
*[Editor's note: What about three chicks at one time, man?]
Thanks to Terry Turnipseed for the link
--MINT E. FRESH
*[Editor's note: What about three chicks at one time, man?]
Thanks to Terry Turnipseed for the link
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