Yes, sometimes it is far too difficult to conquer ones fear and say what should be said to that warm, striking, sharp creature in front of you. Say I want to shave your legs, clean your ears with my tong, and submerge in all your cavities. Say I want to put you naked in a marinade of Italian herbs for three days and after that I will roast you slowly with the heat of my bare hands.
Yes, sometimes you want to say that kind of things but you don’t have the courage to do it. You walk then home feeling miserable, ashamed of yourself. You walk home to once again make love to someone who stopped loving you long time ago. When having dinner you see what’s on the plate; you sigh and flavour it with small portions of your salted melancholy. You eat wordlessly and go afterwards to bed hopping fear will not be there, next morning, like a heavy, soaked raincoat pushing your whole being down. But it will be there. Yes, fear will be there every time you wake up. And you, my dear friend, have to blame your olfactory bulb for that. The bulb is made of glomeruli, or nerve cells, which deal with innate responses such as instinctive fear. A severe solution is subsequently to cut off your nose, but it may at the end not improve your chances in the playing field of love and sex. The other way out is to wait for Professor Hitoshi Sakano at the University of Tokyo to complete his study about how to control the mammalian olfactory system. The Japanese researcher’s team has recently created a mutant mouse with no fear of cats just by doing a genetic change of the mouse’s glomeruli which deal with instinctive fear of a potential predator, the Independent writes today. Professor Sakano says of course nothing about a future appliance on humans of his team’s findings, but it is not hard to imagine that it will be possible to reduce people’s fear with the “helping” hand of the chemistry multinationals. But, it may take time before it happens. In the meanwhile try then to learn to breathe serenely and look the person you want to find you attractive, look him/her in the face and smile. That’s namely the other great scientific discovery the Independent’s readers learn about today.
The psychologists at Aberdeen University who carried out the study have found enough support for the theory that “both men and women use the direction of a person’s gaze as a signal of whether that person finds you interesting enough to look you directly in the face – and that sign of interest is, in itself, seen as attractive to the observer”. Suddenly it is quite easy to understand why there are so many solitary, sad blokes in the European public space. They spend too much time staring at TV-sets or at the bottom of beer glasses. As I also do, from time to time, just to forget that great fear inside me and which as a malignant, deadly cancer tumour is eating me up.
To be “lagom” is the quintessence of being a white Swede. It means to be the barely discernible citizen who is faithful to the welfare state and who passes throughout room and time without leaving long-lasting tracks.
To be “antilagom” is a way of resisting a racist system’s assimilation process. It’s a state of mind very much needed in order to avoid becoming a silent slave.
The Science of Love
9 11 2007Yes, sometimes it is far too difficult to conquer ones fear and say what should be said to that warm, striking, sharp creature in front of you. Say I want to shave your legs, clean your ears with my tong, and submerge in all your cavities. Say I want to put you naked in a marinade of Italian herbs for three days and after that I will roast you slowly with the heat of my bare hands.
Yes, sometimes you want to say that kind of things but you don’t have the courage to do it. You walk then home feeling miserable, ashamed of yourself. You walk home to once again make love to someone who stopped loving you long time ago. When having dinner you see what’s on the plate; you sigh and flavour it with small portions of your salted melancholy. You eat wordlessly and go afterwards to bed hopping fear will not be there, next morning, like a heavy, soaked raincoat pushing your whole being down. But it will be there. Yes, fear will be there every time you wake up. And you, my dear friend, have to blame your olfactory bulb for that. The bulb is made of glomeruli, or nerve cells, which deal with innate responses such as instinctive fear. A severe solution is subsequently to cut off your nose, but it may at the end not improve your chances in the playing field of love and sex. The other way out is to wait for Professor Hitoshi Sakano at the University of Tokyo to complete his study about how to control the mammalian olfactory system. The Japanese researcher’s team has recently created a mutant mouse with no fear of cats just by doing a genetic change of the mouse’s glomeruli which deal with instinctive fear of a potential predator, the Independent writes today. Professor Sakano says of course nothing about a future appliance on humans of his team’s findings, but it is not hard to imagine that it will be possible to reduce people’s fear with the “helping” hand of the chemistry multinationals. But, it may take time before it happens. In the meanwhile try then to learn to breathe serenely and look the person you want to find you attractive, look him/her in the face and smile. That’s namely the other great scientific discovery the Independent’s readers learn about today.
The psychologists at Aberdeen University who carried out the study have found enough support for the theory that “both men and women use the direction of a person’s gaze as a signal of whether that person finds you interesting enough to look you directly in the face – and that sign of interest is, in itself, seen as attractive to the observer”. Suddenly it is quite easy to understand why there are so many solitary, sad blokes in the European public space. They spend too much time staring at TV-sets or at the bottom of beer glasses. As I also do, from time to time, just to forget that great fear inside me and which as a malignant, deadly cancer tumour is eating me up.