Common Backwards Things
Posted on June 23, 2009
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We like to think that society functions in a nice, neat, linear fashion. The truth of the matter is that there are always exceptions to every rule. Nothing always goes in a straight line. And, in fact, there are a lot of common things in this society that go backwards from what we expect of them.
Salmon are the perfect example of this. It is totally natural for salmon to swim upstream. We don’t think of this as normal in general for fish. Everything else swims downstream to spawn right? And yet the salmon goes backwards and that’s natural for the fish and it’s fine.
Another example from nature is the Rhodesian Ridgeback. This dog has a line of hairs on its back that grow in the opposite direction from all of the other hair on its body. It creates the visible “ridge” on its back. That’s not natural to most dogs but it’s natural for this breed.
What does this mean for humans? I think it means that most humans are going to go along in the neat little path of life. They’ll do the school, grad school, marriage, babies thing. But that’s not right for everyone. Some people will do it backwards and I think that nature is telling us that that’s okay.
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That’s a very nice way to put it–bravo! And isn’t there some sort of animal that actually walks backwards,too? I think I remember something like that.
Rhodesian Ridgeback? I’ve never heard of that breed before. Seems like they’re coming up with new breeds all the time.
It’s kind of a reddish dog. I’ve forgotten what it was bred for though; but it’s been around longer than you’d think. Does anyone know what it was bred for?
I think it’s got a bit of an attitude, too. A neat dog, though. We were in a training class with a cop who had one as a pet.
Did you know that once the salmon swim upstream and spawn that they are pretty much garbage for eating anymore? Once they turn reddish, we learned in Alaska, the flesh gets pretty mushy.