A 20-year-old publication from the Journal of Near-Death Studies recently went viral among the alternate crowds on X. The study purports that heart donors tend to adopt personality traits, including food and music preferences, from their deceased donors, even when the recipients knew nothing about their donors’ habits.
Now, in our desensitized times, perhaps, it is time for us to return to the root cause of all culture: our physical being. Were it not for the Europeans to acquaint the world with their endless desires for conquest—and technological advances— there wouldn’t have been phones in Africa today, nor thoughts of space travel in India, or symphonic music in Asia.
These, and many others, were our inventions, European inventions. And we invented them because our body craved the sort of activities that led us to give birth to our music, literature, cinema, and architecture, but also our roads and infrastructure, and our bureaucracy.
The world, it turns out, does not shape us. It is us who shape our world. But if the heart, as per the study quoted, influences one’s personality so much, then so does one’s gut. The food we eat changes our personality.
Our food, of course, is tied to a climate and a habitat. For us Europeans, that is the diet rich in animal proteins and animal fats, the building blocks for strong muscle and bigger brains!
Let us never forget: Our culture and civilization are expression of our physical being, not the other way around.
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