Welcome to the Mind Fuzz newsletter, a recap of three things that are on my mind this week.
1. Plastic
So lately I’ve been on a mission to eliminate as much plastic as I can from my life.
If you’ve tried this yourself, you’ll realise how next to impossible it is.
Blankets, clothes, carpets, couches, food packaging, food (probably) — it’s literally in everything.
I try not to get too worked up about potentially harmful things, but I’m terrified of microplastics.
Lowering of testosterone, impairing reproductive health, reducing sperm count, increased likelihood of breast and prostate cancer — just a few of the small things microplastics are harming.
If you haven’t researched this yourself, I highly encourage you to.
But you won’t like what you find.
This is so far beyond a consumer issue now, and it frightens me to think what these chemicals are doing to our bodies.
2. Christmas Crackers
Okay, on the same trend, name a more low-effort, outdated thing than this:
The toys/gadgets/general knickknacks in Christmas crackers.
The miniature deck of cards
The undersized shoe horns???
The little plastic spinning top.
I mean, 2024 and those things still exist.
I don’t want to be a Grinch just a few days after Christmas, so I won’t tell you my thoughts on buying people gifts just because ‘that’s what you do’.
We all say we love our planet, but our actions always tell a different story around this time of year.
I hate it.
So much.
3. Lobsters
Did you know lobsters operate within social hierarchies?
I was reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life, and it’s crazy how similar they are to us.
When a lobster wins a fight, it stands tall and becomes more assertive.
When a lobster loses, it adopts a defeated posture and becomes more submissive.
Peterson uses this analogy to argue how important posture is for us in our daily lives, and how a straight, upright posture can actually change how we act in certain situations.
I think it also shows just how much wins and losses can affect us.
It’s not a mental thing, it’s literally programmed into our chemistry.
