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lazytownlane

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bunchasticks

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chaumas-deactivated20240115

the way prehistoric animal documentaries will talk about extinction like it happens because of “a failure to evolve” as though evolution is a meritocracy is so funny and so scary

chaumas-deactivated20240115

this species persisted over the eons because of its Protestant work ethic to produce more of a specific kind of digestive enzyme that allowed it to extract 4% more nutrients from the dominant plant species in the area

chaumas-deactivated20240115

we watched a couple episodes of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs a few days ago and it kept going on about shit like “this dinosaur has found a meal worthy of her future bloodline” like she’s some sort of Triassic era Bene Gesserit

allegedlygwen

Its really hard to describe long-term macro evolution without ascribing words like "figured out" or "solved the X problem". Even if you try using more cautious language like "this mutation allowed this following mutation" it suggests direction and intent.

The issue is that macroevolution is one of those concepts that is more or less cosmic horror when it comes to attempting to comprehend it. Not truly incomprehensible but so far beyond the experience of the average person that its hard not to use language that can be read as a narrative.

chaumas-deactivated20240115

I understand that, but that’s not really what I’m talking about. There is a degree of personification and narrativization that is just kind of inevitable, especially in scicomm aimed at a general public. HOWEVER there is a point at which is becomes egregious and another, parallel point at which it becomes weird propaganda for a christofascist blood and soil worldview. I’m a huge sucker for the Walking with Dinosaurs model of CGI dinosaur documentaries which all have their troubling rhetorical flaws but I made it through about an episode and a half of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs while writing that post before I couldn’t take it anymore… at all times it was 30 seconds away from praising its dinosaur characters for their sigma grindsets and the purity of their bloodlines.