Gita’s Blog

He’s at it again. My younger brother Nicholas has the strangest ideas. The problem is that they sometimes make so much sense to me. The precocious boy read dad’s college-level developmental psychology textbook over school break and now he thinks we have it only half right and are omitting a really important part that’s needed for our healthy development. So here’s how it goes (or rather here’s how I understand his ramblings/insights.) “We simultaneously live on two levels,” he screams. This is what’s normal for our species. We need to know this if we are ever to understand what’s going on and our place in it.