Pursuing Happiness Through Immaturity

Because we are born with such big noggins overcrammed with gigantic brains, it takes us a long time to mature as we are born shockingly underdeveloped and premature. A colt can trot shortly after birth; a kitten leaves its mother to forage when it is just a few weeks old. Human babies are helpless and dependent on their elders for sustenance, protection and education. Infants are much lower on the food chain than are adults. Just ask the dingo.

This concept is known as altriciality, which describes the condition of being born in a relatively undeveloped and helpless state. Humans are considered altricial species because human babies are born with significant physical and neurological immaturity compared to other animals.

This characteristic is often linked to the size of the brain at birth. Human infants have large brains relative to their body size, and the pelvis size of the human female limits the size of the newborn's head. As a result, human babies are born at an earlier stage of development compared to other mammals. 

Because of our altricial intelligence as compared to artifiicial intelliegence, we can be, need to be educated and socialized to a far greater extent than do aardvarks or lemmings. So we have schools. As a general rule, the longer we stay in school, the better our chances to succeed in life as we pursue happiness through attainment of long and short term goals. So we go to college and graduate school. Some of us become teachers at twenty one even though we rreally don't know what the hell is going on but we pretend we do because oh My God we're teachers and we're supposed to know what's going on etc, 

Schools, colleges, and graduate programs play a crucial role in providing structured environments for learning and socialization. These institutions not only impart knowledge but also help individuals develop critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to navigate social interactions including kegs, drugs, broken hearts, cheating and oversleeping. The prolonged period of education in humans is linked to the complexity of our societies and the diverse range of skills needed for success.

Other humans opt for another type of support such as living with Mom and Dad in the basement or joining the military or having children of their own. Usually these activities goes on until we're thirty or so. By that time, we have a job, a religion, a favorite team, and/or a political party to take us the rest of the way. Some of us become attached to the Bills and become masochists finding happiness in pain.

Meanwhile and for the entirity of our lives we pursue happiness which we find in personal well being, relationships, achieivement and earning more money than everybody else and thus having more toys which we never outgrow, particularly we boys who become men. Just ask our wives or ex-wives.