I still find valid answers in the Song of the rooster Eduardo Montenegrowritten by Albert Pla and recorded in that wonderful performance of Twenty-somethings in Albuquerquea controversial album that maintains some unforgettable flashes. The song of this rooster that remains hoarse is a masterful reflection on the inconsequentiality that still illuminates today as only great works do. It is a song that asks questions and that suggests, in a way, that we are not that important.
I remembered this song because a recent study by the University of Geneva has contributed to the famous question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. The researchers studied a single-celled organism called Chromosphera perkinsii, discovered in 2017 in marine sediments off Hawaii. This organism, which has existed on Earth for more than a billion years, shows that Embryo-like structures came before the first multicellular animals.
This finding could support the idea that the concept of the egg in the form of embryonic structures is older than the appearance of animals such as the chicken. The eternal dilemma has been addressed directly or tangentially by various schools of thought. On the one hand, evolutionism and evolutionary genetics would be more hesitantsince they maintain that the genetic mutations that gave rise to the first chicken occurred in an egg. Paleontology would also support this idea because eggs already existed in the era of the dinosaurs, and molecular biology highlights that embryonic development processes are older than modern animal forms.
I don’t want to be a chicken fancier or an egg fan. I don’t want to be equidistant between them either. I just want to be me and I see that it is becoming more and more difficult to achieve it.
However, other ideas such as Aristotelianism and vitalism would be chickenists because they defend that the chicken should have come first: Aristotle held that complete forms, such as the chicken, must precede their potential versions, and vitalism and creationism support the idea of the creation of complex beings in their definitive form, a view also supported by many religious interpretations that consider fully formed organisms as the starting point.
Plá’s song makes me think of the tremendous ridicule that we humans make by dividing ourselves into two sides for almost everything. The vegetarian wolf and the republican lion and all the weirdos that appear in this masterful letter are becoming increasingly worse, but they have to survive no matter what. so that we maintain a more personal and less gregarious look. I don’t want to be a chicken fancier or an egg fan. I don’t want to be equidistant between them either. I just want to be me and I see that it is becoming more and more difficult to achieve it.. As the song says: “I don’t give a damn if the world runs on batteries, butane or gasoline.”
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