tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post6435130456315850420..comments2023-09-22T09:03:09.417-04:00Comments on Townie Bastard: Keeping my zentowniebastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03129158923604362272noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-68023293522048310942013-10-04T23:38:58.868-04:002013-10-04T23:38:58.868-04:00Being slower to anger makes you "less enterta...Being slower to anger makes you "less entertaining"? Entertainment via anger is slapstick, and you've read enough Gaiman to know there are other forms of entertainment. You're less slapstick-y, but more sophisticated. I'll bet that, overall, your entertainment value has increased since your younger days.<br /><br />I may have mentioned this in another post, but Nature is lazy, the human brain being a good example. Our brains are onions of evolutionary history: the fear from fish, wrapped by anger from reptiles, then caring from mammals, topped off with human love. Nature kept those emotions there - why waste a perfectly good limbic system?<br /><br />What you're experiencing is emotional (and evolutionary) maturity, as you spend less time living in fear like a fish, or in anger like a reptile. You're letting you higher brain functions make your decisions for you. Human communication and love make a difference now. You're not a fish or a snake anymore.<br /><br />But you'll always have <a href="http://s839.photobucket.com/user/towniebastard/media/writer_blood.gif.html" rel="nofollow">The Mascot</a>. :)<br /><br />I had to look up Rick Mercer. Given some of the details of his biography, I'd say he had a lot to be angry about in his younger days. I sure did.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />John, Canberra AUnoreply@blogger.com