Neanderthal asking stupid question that is so obvious that almost nobody else can even see it.
What happened to pointing?
Around 1997, I began to notice a lot of people pointing to things with their middle finger. It wasn’t anecdotal. I began to see it in every workplace I was in. I have worked at a lot of places and it was so common it became a little bit of a shock to see a person actually using their index finger to point at things with.
Whenever somebody was pointing to the screen of a computer, or a UML diagram or something on a whiteboard, they would grit their teeth until they were sweating to extend the pointing finger … and upon realizing something was neurologically wrong with them they’d just give out a sob and stick out that middle finger instead. There are retarded children who used to get held back a grade for this much trouble learning basic habits for wearing manpants and going outdoors.
I saw it sitting in a restaurant last week and then I passed somebody in the park pointing at something with his middle digit for his wife here in America. It’s not just in Australia. It’s everywhere you have the Western diet, water, culture and habitat.
I am more perceptive than the majority of mankind. Somewhere I am sure there are people who can run mental circles around me the same way I do most people. I bet they saw this awkward finger years ago before I noticed it. I’ll bet they came to the same conclusion that I did only much earlier.
I contend that this abnormality is a mere symptom of a global phenomenon that affects almost all Western people nowadays. I suggest this habit is a direct result of a failure of frontal lobes to develop normally and other damages to the forepart of the brain during adolescence. It ends in a crippled capacity for reasoning in a large part of the public that manifests itself as the inability to point at things.
When you’re done laughing at this crazy idea I want you to listen to my arguments and decide if there is a strong case there to regard my hypothesis as correct.
This is biological, not cultural. Don’t get the chicken before the egg. The culture is a result of the biology.
There is either a poison or toxin or something interfering with endrocrinal regulation that is resulting in the brain never quite making it to adulthood or even early infancy.
The reason other people don’t notice this or any of their other deficiencies is that they have brain damage. Truly a Catch-22 situation for Western society.

Research has demonstrated there is a dedicated nerve running from the frontal lobes through to your pointing finger. Nobody teaches you how to point. It’s an ancient hardwired instinctive behaviour that is burned into Read-Only-Memory. If the brain and nervous system develop normally then there is no reason for a person to use any of the other fingers to point at things with.
It is called the articulate finger because it is an instrument of making yourself understood to others. Nothing is more important in an engineering or design setting when working with other people. If you can’t point to an architectural plan, a software UML diagram or an electronic schematic then you are likely to be incapable of coordinating with a team to produce a result. If you have to use your middle finger to “point” to things, you are sending crazy passive-aggressive mixed messages to your fellows that obscures your meaning.
The only thing that can prevent that nerve from being activated when you see something of interest you want others to see (critical fundamental tool of survival in warm-blooded mammals who dwell in social groups) is a failure of that nerve to develop or a general failure of the frontal lobes to develop normally.
Usually with frontal lobe damage you got the tail end of a train wreck. There are usually a lot of other parts of the brain that are also damaged in order to derail your frontal lobe development into running off the tracks as well.

The modern office is a sea of people using their middle fingers to point at things on a computer screen, at other employees or themselves. On any given day you can look out from your cubicle and see dozens of your co-workers spinning this awkward appendage around in some hideous mockery of social communication and it never fails to make my blood run cold. I get the feeling I am in a horror movie and I am that protagonist who is noticing something is wrong right in the first 20 minutes, before everybody sprouts tentacles from their heads and their eyes turn purple. In M. Night Shymalayan’s underrated THE HAPPENING, the first sign that people are getting crazy from plant pheromones is that they go silent and start to walk backwards. In our world, they are pointing with the middle finger at everything.
Despite what the squawk box might try to tell you, it’s not “culture,” which is a MacGuffin used to muddy the waters and confuse people about why they act as they do. Physiology drives mankind. The thought appears after the resolution to take action has already been made. Mood swings, fits of rage and lust are primary drivers of behavior in people who can’t reason or who otherwise have no internal dialogue. Otherwise what would drive them to do anything if they can’t think? It is the animal instincts and their brain merely runs rambling commentary from the peanut gallery as their urges run through them.
There is something biologically wrong with the most recent generations … you probably guessed that with half of them unable to figure out which sex they are. I am going to make a case that all these bizarre broken internal components have a common cause and it is endocrinal disruptors in our food, water and environment … including the absence of things critical to growth. Add up the weight of these effects and combine them with the damaging effects of childhood vaccines on the nervous system and you get a world of shambling, genetic train wreck mutant teratisms and abominations. Creatures who can no longer even point.
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