In communicating with larvals about sexual, philosophic, or ethical matters, one enters very dangerous terrain. It is almost impossible to discuss philosophy with yokels. Larvals may be bored by and may tune-out Circuit 3 symbols which do not fit their imprints and conditioned networks. But Circuit 4 moral symbols or behaviors which are sensed as different trigger off responses of passion and even violence. Because of this philosophic sensitivity, yokel humans tend to avoid philosophic discussions.
Yokels are ignorant about where life came from, where it is going and why.
They are thus terrified by their mortality. Thus the irritation and panic when this basic hypocrisy is threatened by a scientific discussion about life-origin and life destination. Time magazine 2. Yokels are robot-slaves to DNA . They blindly labor to perpetuate the species, to breed, to establish domestic arrangements for rearing young and to transmit cultural survival patterns.