{"id":1300,"date":"2011-08-28T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/08\/23-and-h\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T21:25:32","slug":"23-and-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/08\/23-and-h\/","title":{"rendered":"23 and h."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spit<\/a>
Weird to think that there\u2019s so much information in saliva.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think I\u2019m scared. Here I have this 23andme<\/a> DNA kit ready to go. This DNA kit would give me answers about predisposition to disease and also where I come from, pretty exactly. <\/p>\n

32 years later and finally, I have the opportunity. But I\u2019m right in the middle tendency I-don\u2019t-want-to-know right now.<\/p>\n

For disease we\u2019re now pretty sure that genetics play a small role<\/a> in the life of an individual compared to his\/her environment which tells much more, as Dr House knows it.<\/p>\n

And for knowing from where I come from\u2026 I\u2019m scared it\u2019s going to change me. Not knowing this fact was the first playground for my imagination when I was a kid. Where do I come from\u2026 Awesome I can be whatever I want! Let\u2019s say my grand grand grand-father was a pharaoh and then my mom was from the US OK? Or maybe an alien, a black Super Saiyan.<\/em> Yeah sounded good.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m scared the results would give me a sense of affiliation that is just not relevant to my life. From the beginning until now I feel that this reduced sense of affiliation gave me an advantage, I get to see the big picture much faster and clearer.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take an example with a situation where people feel a need for affiliation: 9\/11. Now across the world, some people said it was horrible and some people felt that it was right. Some people created conspiracy theories and some others, like me, are like \u201cthis shit is not so tight\u201d.<\/em> There\u2019s no feeling, just no definitive answer.  Now if I was affiliated to a part of this world let\u2019s say, Egypt or Tunisia, that would probably make my blood turn differently and affect my thoughts.<\/p>\n

Another example, when I was a kid and would receive a French \u201dson of whore\u201d insult. In my mind it was like \u201cwell, it\u2019s technically totally possible that it is the case\u201d. <\/em>I was already \u201cabove\u201d these primitive concepts of insults, it very soon in my life felt like afraid puppies barking at me or each others. Directly in the position of looking at a system instead of being involved in it. The big picture. Often in my face.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to be \u201cout\u201d of this sense of affiliation, by design. It\u2019s great to not be like well, most of you. Now I need to exploit that shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weird to think that there\u2019s so much information in saliva. I think I\u2019m scared. Here I have this 23andme DNA kit ready to go. This DNA kit would give me answers about predisposition to disease and also where I come from, pretty exactly. 32 years later and finally, I have the opportunity. But I\u2019m right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}