Evolution

What is evolution? Why does it matter? What does it have to do with me?

Since childhood, I've been fascinated by the process of reproduction, since, in itself, sexual reproduction is a kind of evolution. Mitosis and meiosis make sure that better and better offspring are produced, overall, even as they pass on the same total set of genes. Positive mutation ideas gave us as a society all the superhuman myths-- superman, the x-men, telepaths-- and they gave me a thirst for more than what was (in addition to Sesame Street's "Sometimes I imagine" and " "Imagine that" music videos) in the current world.

Because of this thirst, I see this world as a stepping stone to something better, rather than good enough as it is. My measure of how good the world is, is to see how it deals with our fundamental problems. Genocide. Hatred. Irrational discrimination. Plain old ignorance that leads us to rational discrimination because we have to make decisions on information that is too limited. Going after smokescreens instead of the real thing...saying "nigger" is a problem when in fact it is hatred, prejudice against thick lips and kinky hair, and actions based upon the assumptions proceeding therefrom, that are the problem.

Being able to eat, and drink, without HAVING to stop working, being able to think in different modes, on different sides of the brain at once; being able to leave a country, having the experience of separation from the country, live somewhere else, experience the beneficial changes of that experience to your person, without having to leave the country via plane; these are the things that I think our world ought to at least attempt solutions to.

Although all of those things I suggested have issues associated with them, the point remains, that I believe that the human race is not at the peak of its powers, and that part of the reason for that is people's inertia, their unwillingness to "get on up" as James Brown suggested in his timeless hit, and be a sex machine-- a being geared towards making new, unique, and better offspring, progeny, products, in our own race, in our own species.

The great thing about this to me is that there is a synergistic, syncretic opportunity we have as human beings to evolve alongside with the things we evolve. We invent ipods; I bet in 30 years the human eardrum will be just a sliver thicker and less prone to deafness; likewise in 100 years. We can make changes to ourselves as we make changes to our world. But half the time we miss the opportunity to change ourselves, because we keep thinking that we do not need evolution; we are the top of the food chain, what could possibly be wrong with us?

Ha! Is all I can say to that idea, that we are the top of the food chain. As far as I am concerned we are so far below what we could be that it is not even funny. If animals ever become our equals in calculatory and self-interested intelligence, then God had better intervene to help us, because then they would be naturally armed and intelligent, while we, though intelligent, are not naturally armed.

We are so easily fooled, so gullible. We can be manipulated so easily with material things rather than spiritual principles. We are fragmented, easily acting without integrity, thinking we have to...our inner governors are so Machiavellian, so unprincipled. We always want company when we should learn how to be strong alone. We cannot even teach ourselves how to be, and we have children thinking that we have the right to reproduce-- when we do not notice that reproduction is a word that implies existing productivity, and that in the Bible God is said to have told Adam and Eve FIRST to be fruitful and then to multiply.

I'm sick of our weaknesses as a race bogging down the things I can do and the places I can go; the time I can spend singing rather than arguing or explaining things that should be obvious to people who are born and raised knowing that their brain was made for the highest, deepest, and widest possible use of it, and that slacking on one's capabilities, in light of the fact that there are those born with less, with cerebral palsy, with Down's syndrome, and other things, who do their best, and wish they could do more, is as immoral as adultery.

More to come.