What I Think: SAD Edition
pencilthin somehow misses the entire point of civilization, i.e. to tame and domesticate ourselves into more productive use.
3 years agoSeasonal Affective Disorder, or more cartoonishly named SAD, has once again, like every winter, broken in to the news cycle. A recent article on CNN.com had this to say:
A recent study led by Provencio shows that a genetic mutation in the eye could play a role in seasonal affective disorder. The mutation makes a person with SAD less sensitive to light. The photopigment gene is called melanopsin, which helps detect colors.If you even spend one moment trying to understand SAD you might come to the same conjecture I did, everyone suffers from it, it’s called winter. This genetic mutation of the eye research is yet another excuse for people who aren’t as happy as Ross or Rachel (from Friends) to have reason to inject their lives with a foreign aid to “better” themselves.
We are mammals. Many mammals spend winter hibernating or just in a heavy sleep. Mammals also store up fat in their bodies to feed off of and keep themselves warm in the winter. So why do people, year after year, forget that we are mammals and it’s in our genes to gain weight, want to sleep more and be less productive? The real genetic mutation is in the minds of people who think that they can alter our habits of thousands of years of evolution.
