I will try to make this short.
Listening to Enoch in the latest podcast, and hearing him mention that we are taking Formula 1 to a brand new level of metro-sexuality which we have not seen before...
I think we can start here with something extremely basic:
Granted, the color in this photo is a little off because of the lighting.
Ericsson's hair is blond. We all see that.
When you perceive this, when your eyes and the nerves involved therein see this, let us say they send a code to your brain that consists of 111a, ok?
And that 111a code reaches your brain and you process that and think 'oh ok, this is blond'.
And you can understand this. That it is one particular type of blond.
There's other data included, of course.
Let us summarize here. Blond.
This one signal is the one we are focusing on here. The fact that Ericsson has blond hair.
When
I see his hair my eyes take that in and let us say my ocular nerve sends forth the signal 6783.
And 6783 goes to my brain and I am processing that as, blond.
The point here is that that differentiation in nerval context is one of the things that is the most strongest leading probable cause of differing preferences and differing tastes.
That most people enjoy this or that type of food, because the signals that are sent that they specifically receive and that their brain processes are of a variety that are construed as being good.
And a different person who is receiving the exact same food, is nevertheless doing so in such a differing fashion, both in the context of the message because the nerval signals are different and because his brain is different, or his or her brain processes differently.
So, when these two things come into combination here, what we have is a system in place that makes it so that you can for example put ten people in a line and feed them all something that is at least relatively uniform.
And they will all have differing opinions on it.
That is just something like food, which is a relatively simple thing, chemically and electrically speaking.
When we take something as complex as a hairdo or indeed taking that a step further, Ericsson's and Chilton's hairdos, obviously, as I wrote earlier, the one code that says "Ericsson's hair is blond" is compounded by about I would say 112 or so additional codes that is telling me everything about all the other bits of information involving light and texture and probable diagnosis of exactly what I am looking at. Exactly what is going through my brain, right?
And this is just light, this is something we are looking at.
Now think of how many things we are going through when we eat something.
And then further increase that by a significant factor,
that is all the data that is being sent in it's own different way, because we all perceive everything differently, and this is of course eyes and ears, and of course the differences in the brain.
It has become clear to me over the years, of simple experience and observation and logical deduction, that one of the key points that defines THE hairdo for us, is that
one hairdo that truly has to hit both sides of the perspective.
On the one side, or let's say the side that is being considered first, we have everything that's been said above ^, all of those electrical signals, all of those chemical receptors and all of the adaptations within the brain.
And on the other, certain hairdos, or indeed actually it's more accurate to say a
certain hairdo, if that, because in most cases I imagine most people have not encountered such a hairdo.
The people who
have a really favorite hair is because the fact that this process, all that information that is being dumped into the brain just happen to have the right pattern. It happens to have just the right signal type, and it happens to have just the right perception type and interpretation to determine that this whole process as an aggregate of these thousands upon millions of bits of data that are coming through here is
good, all of it. It's an incredibly complicated thing.
And ultimately there is a reason why we only see
A hairdo in a lifetime. If that. Because the likelyhood, all things considered, of something like that to happen is very low.
And
that is what Ericsson's and Chilton's hairs represent to me.
I have heard several people, who are reasonable intelligent individuals, who are not so called 'fanboys', who have seen other hairdos in their lives, who have also enjoyed
other hairdos.
Who say Ericsson's hair is their favorite.
And I can understand that. Fully. I have always thought of things as being in terms of mind and heart. Thought, emotion, logic and feeling. Biology, chemistry, physics. However that goes.
This particular theory of mine makes perfect sense to
me. We also have to consider the fact of this other side to it, the heart, how it actually makes
you feel. Inside.
How it actually resounds with
you, and your soul.
It is fascinating to me to see the hairs of Marcus and Max, because I have seen people who have worn many different hairdos, and people who have said that hairdo A or hairdo B is their absolute favorite, and
I look at that hair and I wonder, why?
Because it doesn't fit with
me. It's not necessarily a bad hairdo, but I have seen it time and time again.
And it has only become more apparent over time that it is just kind of a factor of us being the incredibly complicated things that we are, and certain things just fit with certain people. It's almost pure random luck, to be completely honest with you. And it is fascinating to me.
One of the reasons I try to encourage people to try and like some of the different hairdos that are available is because the more you branch out like that, the more you have a chance of reaching those hairdos that do fit with you, both emotionally of course and electrically, logically speaking. The more chance you have of finding that one hairdo that really does snap with you, that really does fit you, YOU the person and your preferences and your ideals.
And whatever it is you actually find enjoyable and you can have that one hairdo for as long as you want.
Because, ultimately it is not a matter of favorites, we are going past favorites, there is a reason Ericsson and Chilton are so far up on the scale.
No other driver has ever come close, ever.
I guess that is a bit of a lie, Gaston Mazzacane
has come close, I admit that freely.
But those two are up there by themselves, even the next nearest of my favorite hairdos of all time, hairs of true beauty and works of art, like Stefan Johansson's for instance, don't even approach them. They aren't even on the same scale as ME & MC.
Because of how much those hairdos fit with
me. Those two are the only ones I have ever found in my whole life. And I have seen MANY hairdos.
This is again one of the reasons I want to encourage people to branch out and try new things.
And obviously I know real life gets in the way of that, because that is what real life does. Money and time are both the huge abominations that sit in the path of trying to enjoy life as usual.
But for whatever capacity you
do hold, I do encourage such things.
This is about enthusing, this is about sharing the passion and the joy that hairdos can bring us as individuals . Not necessarily bring it to
everyone, because everyone is different.
But for everyone who has read this far into the post, and actually gets some semblance of that enjoyment or shares with me this enjoyment, I consider that a triumph right there.
And on top of that of course we have the fact that hairdos are awesome, right?
So let's discuss it, let's talk about why, let's
really analyze
why so we can enjoy it more, and so we can share it more. I just wanted to talk about that.
I try not to bash hairdos, or really put hairdos down, because there is probably someone out there somewhere, who finds a hairdo that
I personally don't like, to be
their one hairdo, for whatever reason and their differing perspective it is
the one hairdo that matches them.
That fills
their heart.
And who am I to try and dissuade from that, try to disregard that or dishonor that?
Let's instead embrace.
