Silent eyes are watching you
Monday, 21 January 2008 by Jacob TomawTonight, I am holding Jonah and rocking him. He is watching the border of something behind my head. It is amazing to watch his eyes move perfectly with my rocking.
We spend so much of the first months just learning to see properly. Focusing, following, staring, and analyzing. Imagine how important tacking with our eyes must have been to our ancestors.
Now imagine how all the training is going to go to waste in the modern world. The world might change a lot by the time he is grown. However, I see (through my glasses corrected reading deteriorated eyes) him only needing to see 2 or 3 meters from his face at most. Only half a meter most of the time.
Think I am wrong? How far are you from this word? When you are done reading, how far away from the TV will you be?
Anyone up to a hunting trip in a couple years? The theme: Iron Age tools only!
January 21st, 2008 at 23:09
I know who I do not want driving behind me!
January 21st, 2008 at 23:37
There is a reason I take the train.
Isn’t traffic usually so bad that I only need to see your tail lights.
Even at 1 car length per 10 mph, that is not really all that taxing on our eyes.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:36
All the native mega-fauna are gone. What are we going to hunt? Stray dogs? Andersonville wild bunnies? Grant Park coyotes?
Or, the worlds deadliest game - Trixies!
January 24th, 2008 at 14:30
There are deer not that far away. There are also some other small critters we could get, badgers for instance.
And you laugh at bunnies. I remember reading that the main reason there are so many bunnies in Chicagoland is that Chicagoans stopped eating them 100 years ago.