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there's a neat theory about languages and color words, and "red" is universally the third color that a language will name, coming after "black/dark/cool" and "white/bright/warm," suggesting that our monkey brains place some kind of primordial weight on 'red'

it's the color word applied to lots of things like fire, blood, the sun, fruit and meat, i think the word i would use to describe all of these things is "vital," it's a color of life and the things that sustain or threaten it

"blue" comes much later after both "green," a color applied to other important natural things like plants and water, and after "yellow" is distinguished from "red." in nature it's almost a sort of background color from which other objects are distinguished and not often the color of an object in it's own right