Beginning in the Brain

You can't escape your inner fish. To bring you home was built upon the brain ancient prehistoric fish. You're ever so many great great great grandfather was a little slug like fish. It now bears the name Pikaia and it was the first chordate, that is the first creature with anything resembling the spinal column. All of our culture and our learning, all of her songs and literature, all of her science and our philosophy, all these things are built on the foundation of a little sea slug with a spine.

And with each successive generation. Each time we bred and did not die before reaching sexual maturity, each of these successes added a new layer to the tapestry that would be our culture that we would hard code into our DNA, into our brains.

Air breathing. Courtship rituals. Fight or flight response. Herd mentality. Social rituals. Rearing our Young. From reptile brain to neo cortex , our genetic history is built into our culture, built into the very fabric of our social norms. Or at least it was, until ten thousand years ago. Then the heresy, then the blasphemy, then the treason against billions of years of evolution. Then the cities. Then came the Locust King.