Jeetmods: Now with less horsepower

Okay, let's address the elephant in the (server) room. This is a blog called JeetMods.

If you're a car person, you already know what that sounds like. Cold air intakes. ECU tunes. Lowering springs. That was supposed to be the whole thing. I love cars. I love the engineering behind taking something stock and making it do exactly what you want. JeetMods was going to be my garage.

But then I changed my mind.

Somewhere over the last year, I stopped thinking about engines and started thinking about people instead. The weird stuff we do. How we actually live. And what is that really? It’s anthropology.

So I'm keeping the domain. The name still kind of works if you think about it.

Humans are the only species that refuse to accept things as they are. We don't just find food. We cook it, we let it ferment, we add things that literally burn our mouths, we turn eating into this whole ritual thing. We don't just accept being sick. We invent medicine, we do surgeries, we pray, we build entire healthcare systems. We're always modifying something. Our environment, our food, ourselves.

That's the new focus here. Human mods.

Nothing here will be exactly analytical, but rather it will be an account of the observations I’ve made, almost like a public journal.

The two to three main interests I will focus on are food anthropology, cultural anthropology, and medical anthropology. Future articles might talk about why we gravitate towards eating food that physically hurts. My dad looks as though he has taken a shower whenever we go out to eat Sichuan food but he (we!) keep finding ourselves going back for more and more.

That's what I want to look into. I want to look into things we may think are completely unrelated, but how they are actually interconnected and how they affect the concious choices and decisions we make in our lives.

No cars here, but maybe I'll write about how caffeine is basically NOS for your brain.

Good enough.