Wednesday, April 23, 2008

whose science and for whom?!

One of the risks when you don't live in your "home-country" anymore, is that you might feel the urge of watching tv shows online that you would have never even considered when you were living there. Say, for example that you're italian, and that you've always hated RAI1 (TV channel) and totally disliked "Quark", a proto-scientific format that pretends to tell you the Real Truth about everything, from the lives of animals, to the human body, from recent medical discoveries, to ancient civilizations, from why you should eat something, to why you shouldn't use alternative therapies. Now, 2 and a half year that you're not living in Italy and *zak* you find yourself watching a whole episode of this Quark thing online!
As a result, you hate the program again and you remember why you didn't like it in the first place. BUT, you also learn a whole bunch of new stuff.

The episode was about LOVE. So well, that's a catchy theme and I thought "you never know I'll find there the answers to all the meaningful life questions". That's what i found out:
- talking about love means talking about entering in relations to others (clear) and raising children (!)
- love is between a man and a woman, period.
- you can completely find out how love works if you do experiments in labs about the biological and psychological aspects of it ( cartoon animations are crucial for the task)
- consequently you can find exactly how a love starts and ends (wow!)
- you can discover unequivocally which elements strikes when a woman and a man meet. Namely, men are impressed and they like in a woman: sweetness, femininity, kindness, non-aggressiveness, education, sweetness (again) and "a bit of intelligence". Women like in men: intelligence, kindness, decision, their eyes, their smell, their hands, their attitude, their eyes (again), humour, that they make them laugh. (the fair of banality, stereotypes and commonplaces!!)
- love is between a man and a woman, period.
- you fall in love when you are ready to change, and you fall in love with someone who somehow symbolises future possible lives you wish for. (this I liked and I think I agree)
- to create future we need to fuse with each other. (sorry single people, you have no future)
- you fall in love to achieve a biochemical stability (I'll use this as my next pick up line: "ehi you, wanna fuse? I think you can stabilise my biochemical system")
- when you're in love it's like you have an obsessive-compulsive disorder: same amount of serotonin in the blood.
- love is between a man and a woman, period.
- man and woman establish a strong relationship because they aim at making children (sorry, no children = no point in having a strong relationship)
- the woman is a traffic-light and the man is the one who takes the initiative and has to pay attention to the traffic-light.. nowadays women take initiative too.. but that's kinda weird, 'cos men like women to be sweet.
- men like porno, women like romantic novels
- love is between a man and a woman, period.
- people "betray" their partner because they don't love him/her (!!)
- well, many many other incredibly interesting things about the smell of sweat, hormones, jealousy, aggressions, cheating statistics, private investigators, dating agencies, etc...

so:

Dear Quark/Piero Angela,
thank you very much for your enlightening information; however I would like to take this opportunity, if I may, to ask you just a small question: why why WHY!!!?!?!??

Sincerely yours,
d. (which has apparently almost never loved and maybe never will)

1 comment:

Fab said...

Oh please, by all means one must include the following, psychoanalytically inspired "thesis": Men always look (unconsciously) for a woman who is like their mother, women always look (unconscioulsy) for a man who is like their father. The beauty of this argument is that it includes all the others: 1. Love is between a man and a woman. 2. Love is about stable, binary relations leading to procreation -you look for your opposite-sex parent as a partner in order to found a family again.
So accordingly, the best pick up line ever would be:
"Do you wanna be my mommy/daddy?"