11 - Sexual Selection of Carnival Attractions - a podcast by Captain Frodo

Strange days are upon us. Some are calling for the abolishment of 2020, others are asking for their money back and are refusing to add this year to their sequence of birthdays. But I am asking for a radical rethinking of the time given to us by the Pandemic. Get cracking with the creating!
Revolution, evolution, sexual and other selection as how the female of the species shapes the males to their liking.
The Carnival is an organism subjected to the same laws of nature the rest of biology struggles under. Like the constrictions placed on us Showfolk by the current pandemic there are various selection processes working on the carnival, both the Outer and the Inner. We learn one of the great secrets of Illuminated Showmanship, how it came to mirror the human soul.

Show Notes:
Alan Watts - What if money was no object.
Austin Kleon - Steal Like an Artist
Before and after shots of clean air in India.
Tolkien quote "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Little Egypt article with links to clips.
Little Egypts filmed by Edison
Darwin's letter to Asa Gray where he says: "The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!"
Evolution of Whales - 2nd episode of an excellent PBS documentary.
Pakicetus - Dog-like whale ancestor

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