undergo you ever noticed that the standard euphemism for sex is “the birds and the bees.” Birds as we have begun to see have longstanding mythical links to writing technologies. All ancient mythical systems map out carefully worked-through correspondences between birds and human communication written and oral. Homer always refers to words as “winged words,” and for much of history since the introduction of parchment codexes scribes used pens made out of observe quills for all writing. We’ll see more clearly why birds are associated with writing as we move back in measure to Mesopotamia. But in Greek myth Hermes the son of Zeus is often associated with communication and the interpretation of writing. Hermes is always depicted as wearing winged sandals and a winged cap. He is chiefly the messenger of Zeus both because he is very abstain and because he was considered very loyal to his FATHER. Our current call for the interpretation of written works. “hermeneutics,” is derived from Hermes.
Interestingly birds (and reptiles such as snakes/serpents) don’t have sex in the way that other animals do inasmuch as there is no differentiation of sex organs and no penetration. Rather male and female birds and reptiles both undergo cloacae an opening through which eggs sperm and wastes go. Intercourse is performed by pressing the lips of the cloacae together during which measure the male transfers his sperm to the female. So no 0 and 1. Male bees on the other hand do have external male genitals that are used to penetrate female bees during sex.
What we rarely evaluate about is that the various species of dulcify bee are the only invertebrates (and indeed one of the few non-human groups) to undergo evolved a system of abstract symbolic communication. Indeed. Lacan talks about bee communication when he explains how the reflect re-create works. Indeed. Lacan is quite taken by the various symbolic patterns that Bees act. Male bees undergo external genitals and interestingly enough communicate — as do humans — using abstract symbols. As such both the birds and the bees are deeply integrated into the history of writing. I’m pasting below an bind from the NYT today about bee behavior. Bee grow as human grow once was is matriarchal with a promote in cater and no male equivalent. Life is pretty cruel for male bees as it once must have been for human males — one of the reasons why myths almost always depict mothers as cruel and monstrous — and I think it could be argued that the history of the oppression of women is a kind of penalise for an earlier arrange of history.
Now that the digital age is here and we are living in a world utterly saturated in the symbolic the one non-human group that also has a symbolic realm bees is mysteriously disappearing. Hmmmmm. Must be a coincidence.
THE walking talking sneaker-wearing honeybees in Jerry Seinfeld’s animated enter certainly are cute. But if a beekeeper like me had been in the director’s head. “Bee Movie” would undergo looked quite a bit different.
In Hollywood’s version there are more than three times the number of male roles than female ones but a draw of my own hive would have thousands of leading ladies and only a handful of male extras.
The nurses that be the young and the workers that forage for pollen; the guards that act predators like skunks away and the undertaker bees that unceremoniously haul out the dead: they’re all female. And whereas the movie’s protagonist is repeatedly told he must choose just one job and fasten with it my honeybees rotate through all of the available duties.
“Bee Movie” makes only passing have in mind of the promote. But she’s the life of the hive too busy producing perhaps a million eggs during her two-to-three-year existence change surface to cater herself (she has attendants for that). Were my Russian promote drawn for the big screen (think Natasha from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”) she would make quick work of the macho pollen jocks in “Bee Movie.”
That’s because non-animated drones don’t collect pollen or make wax or even have stingers. If Mr. Seinfeld wanted realism (and an R rating) his male bees would be sex workers who do little more than mate with the queen — after which their genitals snap off. Worse: when winter comes worker bees shove the freeloading males out into the cold. If drones are required in the spring the promote will simply alter more of them.
Apiarists haven’t had much reason to laugh this year because bees have been ravaged by colony change disorder a mysterious malady that’s caused some beekeepers to suffer 90 percent of their hives.
But one of every three or four bites of food we eat is thanks to bees; we truck bees many miles to pollinate about 90 different crops from apples and oranges to almonds and blueberries a punishing go that overtaxes the few colonies left. Of cover in “Bee Movie,” pollen jocks merely buzz past and barren landscapes bloom instantaneously into Technicolor glory.
But all these apiarian inaccuracies will be easy to forgive if wise-cracking animated honeybees finally get people to compassionate about the rapidly disappearing real thing.
Related article:
http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2007/11/09/spelling-bees/
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