457
48.6 Divisions That Fail to Unite
In a landmark essay, “The Compartmentalization of the Cerebellum,” by Karl
Herrup and Barbara Kuemerle,
65
studies which began on the embryogenesis of
Drosophila (small fruit-flies) resulted in new advances in the description and partial
understanding of human “cerebellar organization.” These insights provided a clearer
topography of brains comprising “developmental compartments,” subdivisions.
This picture resolved down to a conclusive revelation that suggested “the cerebellum is a nest of paradoxes” —a “little brain” (the Latin), which is situated “at the
back of the brain stem at the midbrain-hindbrain junction” and contains what is
estimated to be “80 to 85% of all human neurons.” But what tradeoffs has the human
brain allowed itself? What metabolic ratios of efficiency have evolved? And has
such efficacy correlated with an ethic? Or has the neural efficacious grown up
unchecked by moral or, for that matter, intellectual constraints? To be witness, for
example, to the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945,
66
or viewing those
earlier referenced YouTube videos of chicken slaughterhouses, to have the physiological weight of experience, the very luxury that would give us to learn, or not,
from our histories? Of the collapse of one civilization after another?
All the statistics add up to the quintessential paradox of human dietary schizophrenia, denial, and innumerable madnesses. Considering, for example, the number
of cases of Covid-19 at slaughterhouses, the majority of viral hotspots (along with
nursing homes); the fact that while an estimated 25% of all those between 25 and
34 in the US support vegetarianism or veganism, the majority of the rest of the
country seems to have subsumed the whole issue of where their food comes from
under so many layers of denial that they can no longer retrieve any semblance of
environmental and health reality. Even the author of the New York Times Op Ed
“The End of Meat Is Here” (Jonathan Safran Foer) himself points out climate
change, income inequality, and then the very “paradoxes in my own eating life….”
Data from Project Drawdown that declares a plant-based diet “the most important
contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming” and so on.
67
None of it evens out, and gives no indication—despite a shuffling of numbers—of
the least trend toward non-violence, of the human population scales.
68
65 Annual Review of Neuroscience, Volume 20, 1997, pp. 61–90, https://www.annualreviews.org/
doi/full/10.1146/annurev.neuro.20.1.61#_i4, Accessed May 5, 2020.
66 What a Soviet soldier saw when his unit liberated Auschwitz 70 years ago”. The Washington
Post. 27 January 1945. See also, http://auschwitz.org/en/history/evacuation/the-cessation-of-massextermination, Accessed May 5, 2020.
67 https://drawdown.org.
68 “The End of Meat Is Here - If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about
climate change, you have to stop eating animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer, May 21, 2020, The
New York Times, Opinion Piece,https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opinion/coronavirus-meatvegetarianism.html?smid=em-share, Accessed May 22, 2020. See also, the feature documentary,
“Mad Cowboy,” (109 minutes), A Voice For A Viable Future/Dancing Star Foundation/KQEDPBS Production, 2006; See http://www.humanedecisions.com/documentary-film-mad-cowboythe-story-of-howard-lyman/. Accessed August 8, 2020.
48.6 Divisions That Fail to Unite
48.6 Divisions That Fail to Unite
In a landmark essay, “The Compartmentalization of the Cerebellum,” by Karl
Herrup and Barbara Kuemerle,
65
studies which began on the embryogenesis of
Drosophila (small fruit-flies) resulted in new advances in the description and partial
understanding of human “cerebellar organization.” These insights provided a clearer
topography of brains comprising “developmental compartments,” subdivisions.
This picture resolved down to a conclusive revelation that suggested “the cerebellum is a nest of paradoxes” —a “little brain” (the Latin), which is situated “at the
back of the brain stem at the midbrain-hindbrain junction” and contains what is
estimated to be “80 to 85% of all human neurons.” But what tradeoffs has the human
brain allowed itself? What metabolic ratios of efficiency have evolved? And has
such efficacy correlated with an ethic? Or has the neural efficacious grown up
unchecked by moral or, for that matter, intellectual constraints? To be witness, for
example, to the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945,
66
or viewing those
earlier referenced YouTube videos of chicken slaughterhouses, to have the physiological weight of experience, the very luxury that would give us to learn, or not,
from our histories? Of the collapse of one civilization after another?
All the statistics add up to the quintessential paradox of human dietary schizophrenia, denial, and innumerable madnesses. Considering, for example, the number
of cases of Covid-19 at slaughterhouses, the majority of viral hotspots (along with
nursing homes); the fact that while an estimated 25% of all those between 25 and
34 in the US support vegetarianism or veganism, the majority of the rest of the
country seems to have subsumed the whole issue of where their food comes from
under so many layers of denial that they can no longer retrieve any semblance of
environmental and health reality. Even the author of the New York Times Op Ed
“The End of Meat Is Here” (Jonathan Safran Foer) himself points out climate
change, income inequality, and then the very “paradoxes in my own eating life….”
Data from Project Drawdown that declares a plant-based diet “the most important
contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming” and so on.
67
None of it evens out, and gives no indication—despite a shuffling of numbers—of
the least trend toward non-violence, of the human population scales.
68
65 Annual Review of Neuroscience, Volume 20, 1997, pp. 61–90, https://www.annualreviews.org/
doi/full/10.1146/annurev.neuro.20.1.61#_i4, Accessed May 5, 2020.
66 What a Soviet soldier saw when his unit liberated Auschwitz 70 years ago”. The Washington
Post. 27 January 1945. See also, http://auschwitz.org/en/history/evacuation/the-cessation-of-massextermination, Accessed May 5, 2020.
67 https://drawdown.org.
68 “The End of Meat Is Here - If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about
climate change, you have to stop eating animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer, May 21, 2020, The
New York Times, Opinion Piece,https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opinion/coronavirus-meatvegetarianism.html?smid=em-share, Accessed May 22, 2020. See also, the feature documentary,
“Mad Cowboy,” (109 minutes), A Voice For A Viable Future/Dancing Star Foundation/KQEDPBS Production, 2006; See http://www.humanedecisions.com/documentary-film-mad-cowboythe-story-of-howard-lyman/. Accessed August 8, 2020.
48.6 Divisions That Fail to Unite