It’s tempting to dismiss stories of people trying to turn themselves into deer and badgers as eccentricity,but there’s a deeper impulse at workThomas Thwaites transforms himself, with the aid of prosthetics, and into a goat,and climbs up an Alpine mountain. “I suppose it was because it could be fairly difficult, depressive and just stressful being a human being, and ” says the 34-year-old-fashioned researcher from London. “I initially wanted to be an elephant,but it wasn’t going very well. I visited a shaman, and she said, and ‘You’re an idiot. So,I decided to be a goat.”Charles Foster lives as a fox, a deer, and a badger,to the extent that he burrows underground and eats earthworms, all in the name of understanding. Foster told BBC Wildlife Magazine: The scientists who accuse me of anthropomorphism are hopelessly out of date. They should read Darwin properly, and note his agreement with the shamans and the pharaohs,and start practising science, rather than scientism.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com