Why do kids love dinosaurs? Science writer and amateur paleontologist Riley Black writes for Atmos about dinomania — her own, and society's, which she traces back to the 1914 animated short "Gertie the Dinosaur." "The fact that they are extinct makes them safe and child-appropriate — the logic goes — and so dinosaurs can do no harm," she writes. "If dinosaurs are so safe, though, why do we spend so much time imagining them chasing us down and eating us?"
Being an involuntary compulsory consumer in Capitalism is a lot like being a parasaurolophus (herbivore, not very large) in the cretaceous period.
You hope you dont come across an Apex predator like T-Rex but if you do, you hope a Spinosaurus or the like is around so they can tear each other apart while you grab a drink from the lagoon.
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