Excerpt from 'Scammability'

 "Housed in a darkened cove is a new life-form gradually growing to term. For nine months, a biological miracle takes place and in that time the complex genetic code embedded deep within is slowly unwrapped in preparation for its activation upon meeting the right conditions. 


Nature vs Nurture! The existential riddle that has held many a philosopher captive in trying to establish which amongst the two is responsible for intrinsic behaviours peculiar to humans.    


Whichever it is - between Nature/Nurture, ‘Scammability’ is one of those skills that the foetus will be armed with as a requisite tool to face the new world it will be arriving into. 


Already in the safety of its aquatic home, swimming lessons are being perfected in earnest and Scientists have advanced that foetuses start to ‘learn’ from within the womb though it is not actually known how ‘effective’ this learning is. Suffice it to say that the foundations of an innate ‘skill’ are being built! 


The first ‘scam’ the foetus learns is how to get a better ‘deal’ from its hostess whereby it understands that if it is uncomfortable and it ‘kicks’, it can be ‘rewarded’ with a better positioning of its housing! 


Sometimes, they even ‘play’ games with their hostesses and it may be that pause in concentration to listen to the unintelligible sounds in the form of conversations that pregnant mothers tend to have with their babies as it has been scientifically advanced that: “...the pregnant mother’s voice is the first one that the baby hears.”


Excerpt from a work in progress from the pen of Haidarwali...Coming soon!

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