Insatiable rats blow up the moon, By Mark Morford

Insatiable rats blow up the moon
What does it say about us that we must always poke and query and explode?
By Mark Morford

Let us hypothesize for a moment that you have everything you could ever need on this hot, sticky speck of planet: Loads of love, great sex, good food, shelter, cash, affordable health care, good teeth, shiny car, kids who don't hate you, the works.

In short, your basic needs are more than met, your essential desires perfectly sated, the impulses that many say drive the human animal to do anything at all are, once and for all, finally quenched. In terms of everything we say we value as a culture and mouth-breathing biped, you want for nothing.

What would you do? Kick back and chill? Smile and order another drink? Are you all done? Is there anything else? Does it matter?

Recently I heard the tale of a classic Harvard study performed not long ago on some very happy rats to analyze this very scenario. What do you do when you don't really need to do anything at all? ...

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