Alcohol

There continues to be historical evidence that fermenting and drinking alcohol pre-dates man settling into a life of planting and harvesting crops. In fact the world's oldest known recipe was not for food but for beer (part of an ancient Sumerian myth). 

According to Edward Slingerland's book Drunk; "The human mastery of fermentation into alcohol is so ancient that certain yeast strains associated with wine and sake show evidence of having been domesticated 12,000 years ago or more." 

So today I plan to get in touch with and pay homage to mankind's great heritage by drinking beer and watching football. It's what man is meant to do!

Today I Join "the Free"

Intoxication is an antidote to cognitive control, a way to temporarily hamstring that opponent to creativity, cultural openness, and communal bonding...

Dionysus appeals to the more ancient, primitive regions of our brain, those dedicated to sex, emotions, movement, touch...

We need to become looser - one of Dionysus' alternative names in Latin was Liber, "The Free." 

From Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland.

Today I intend to be part of "the free" - that's to say I plan to drink.