food

hm. my appetite has been so weird lately.
kinda lacking actually.
its not even like the diet that i did for a very long time:
where i only ate one large meal a day.
now i'm just eating one or two fairly small snacks a day.
maybe its just a phaze.

i'm also watching this thing on the history channel about the anasazi indians.
the one in mesa verde that made those cliff dwellings.

the narrator is throwing out the question of why people would do such a thing.
hm. well. let's see.
for one. protection.
and the other, water condenses on the cliffside, which is very convenient given the fact that there's no perennial streams in the area.

so like any semi-intellegent people, wouldn't you protect a necessary resource by doing something like living damn-near atop it?

i mean, shit.
people think that these people were so docile/peaceful, but successful populations always overgrow, and by the time people came to live in these dwellings, in the 1300's, it was a fairly comparable mentality of that in europe:
castles.
defend yourself with a fatty wall or precipice.
the maori of new zealand were doing this at roughly the same time too with their pa.

seems like anyone facing the loss of a dwindling, limited resource reacts in much the same way. be it land, water, food, or raw materials for a given technological advancement.

hopefully by the end of this show the narrator will come to somewhat of a similar conclusion.
...at least the part that these people were defending a resource.