I would guess someone invented the handshake in prehistoric times and we just have no medium in which a record could exist aside from an undiscovered cave drawing or something like that. Humans seem to naturally touch hands outside of any social influence or cultural history. Babies reach out and people touch their hands. It seems like a pretty intuitive human action. We touch things with our hands, so other hands seems natural as a thing to touch. The shake just seems like a minor variation on that.
Let us celebrate our mutual experience of close proximity by touching our multi-fingered appendages to one another's - Person who invented the handshake, probably.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by abominable_panda@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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mechanismatic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Humans seem to naturally touch hands
Some a lot more than others, and it’s usually the ones with really gross hands. Just saying.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Chimps shake hands.
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That is the worst way to describe that.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Its like Nathan Pyle if he never became successful and sounded like he had people locked in the basement
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
One silver lining from the pandemic was that fist bumps became more common in lieu of handshakes. Some people's hands can be filthy.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Elbow bumps here!
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Never socializing here!
cardboardchris@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The story I heard in a medeival history class about the origin of the handshake is that it’s a sign that you don’t mean to attack the other person because you’re not holding a weapon in your hand
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Have similar from multiple sources. With an added bit about it also exposing you to attack from the other person as you would have to move your shield.