Amateur Brain Surgery

Rats appear, on a mysterious level, to be ‘psychic’ 

Last week New Scientist reported that rats in the US seem to ‘learn’ novel new behaviors that only rats in Europe have been exposed to… without any physical contact.  Over thousands of miles, most of which is ocean. What’s going on – some kind of collective consciousness? Nobody knows. Yet.

Which set The Nurse wondering: are humans  ‘psychic’ (she uses the term very loosely) too?  No reason why not – like rats, we’re intelligent mammals . Our survival instincts are just as strong. 

Let’s face it, everyone knew things couldn’t go on as they were. We couldn’t keep guzzling gas, wasting resources, reproducing like bunnies without a care for the planet’s finite resources.  Or our fellow creatures. 

But how to stop? How to change? By way of a massive worldwide financial collapse, that’s how. Did we - The Nurse muses - collectively bring about the current economic nightmare unconsciously in a desperate species-saving attempt at a fresh start?

The Nurse hopes so. There’s always an equal and opposite positive to every negative. Is the positive side of today’s economic pain the opportunity to make amends, make things better, start again before it’s too late, before we wreck the place completely for our children? To be clean and unselfish and kind instead of greedy, ugly and short sighted?

A big brain has its disadvantages. We’ve overlaid all the instinctive stuff our animal relatives rely on with logic and speech, imagination and reasoning. But perhaps the human race’s collective consciousness is alive and well, working its magic  while we run in circles wondering what’s going on.

Anything that keeps The Nurse stimulated and intellectually alive here in clink is a bonus.