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Whether our ancestors knew something we didn't or not I'm not sure, but it seems that the human brain finally finishes 'connecting up' when we reach 21. This means that as far as guys are concerned we're two years past our sexual peak already. Girls on the other hand still have 14 years of knowing just who they are and what they want to wait before they reach their peak. I'm not sure who God was laughing at when he was going over the designs.

What this 21 thing also means is that in most countries of the world we get to vote long before we really know what we're going to want, we can marry years before we know for sure that our partner is the one we're going to desire for the rest of our lives, and girls get an added bonus. They get to get pregnant years before they actually know if they want children, which results in their either having an abortion which they will wish forever that they hadn't had, or give birth to child that they'll blame for ruining their childhood for the rest of the poor sprog's days.

This also explains hippies. No really. Back in the days of the draft all guys spent a couple of years having army, obedience, and the rightness of killing into them. The end of the draft in the UK resulted in a new generation who had nothing to fill those hours with, so they made music. DIY music was big in the UK from the late 50s when UK skiffle just sort of happened, finally reaching a peak of a kind when the former Quarrymen skiffle group became The Beatles and proceeded to conquer the world. Up to this point US kids just accepted that you formed a band, then it broke up while you did military service, came home, got married, and joined the rat-race. This paisley coloured music revolution from over the pond suddenly demonstrated a new direction and the 'Hell no - We won't go' generation was born.

You know what? That's so convincing I almost believe it could be true... If no one comes up with a better explanation in the next 42 minutes I'm going to adopt it.

Meanwhile back at this 'brain becoming fully functioning at 21' thing. I'm thinking this might go some way towards explaining this peculiar seismic shift that we get over here in politics every generation or so. The Conservatives led by the Thatcher sweep to power and can't be shifted for about a decade and a half, apparently supported by a generation of people who just plain don't remember the last time the Cons were in and all the power cuts during 'the winter of discontent'. Then 'New' Labour sweep to power and can't be shifted, supported by a generation who don't remember the last time Labour was in and the raging inflation (Or the offshore radio stations... ). Now it seems the Conservatives are about to be swept back into power by a new generation who don't recall the almost endless depressions, slumps, and burgeoning unemployment under the previous Conservative reign.

The only problem with this whole thing is, I can quite distinctly remember changing my mind about all sorts of things since I was 21. If I've just written a whole blog based upon some stupid theory that's about to be disproved I shall be less than really pleased. I might just have to go out and kill someone.

But don't worry. I'll probably change my mind about that.