He was suggesting than humans decided to walk upright. I was suggesting that he was not very observant. However it happened, through design or the slow survival and copulation of the upright, there is no doubt that our current bodies are absolutely built to stand bipedally, and that is through no decision of our own. Look at the positioning of our legs around our pelvis. Contrast the length of our legs with that of our arms. Look at the rotation of our neck and the distribution of our weight. If we attempted to live on all fours, we'd constantly be staring back through our legs with the top of our vulnerable head pointed at the ground. We'd constantly be on the verge of a somersault.
The mistake, I think, is in seeing upright walking as some sort of indication of separation from the animals. We are doomed to be upright animals, but this means little. We are not the only ones, and this is not what makes us human.
"I think we walk upright so our minds can be closer to God," he said. We stick out from this globe in every direction like the pins in my Grandmother's tomato pin cushion. That cannot literally be the "reason" we walk upright, though I'm sure it was meant to be an inspirational maxim and not a real theory. I'm tempted to tell him that we are differentiated from the animals by our ability to walk upright but still have our heads up our ass. I really don't feel that way about us as a society, though.
"I think we walk upright so our hats don't fall off," I said, and I left it at that.
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Later. Love.
P.S. - I posted a piece on my cogito writing site. It's called weather changes. It's short, and I like it. Check it out, if you'd like. Thanks for stopping by.
