Jivermo wrote:Politics, and religion, have caused more spilling of blood than anything I can think of. You can talk about this stuff all you want, but it's just like when you were a kid playing with sticks out back; mom comes out and she says, "somebody's gonna get hurt", and you know, she's right. Somebody always gets hurt. That's the true nature of politics.
Let's say that our DNA is all about survival, like every other animal on Earth.
If you look at the toolboxes of survival, there are animals who win by brute strength, yes, but there are also animals who win by deceit, they change their colors, they mimic sticks or coral patterns. There are animals who look innocent enough, but they can inject powerful toxins that paralyze their predator/prey. There are animals who retreat, but they survive nonetheless. Some hide in huge numbers of fellow animals, like bee hives and penguin herds.
As conscious monkeys, we have all of the above strategies, plus nuclear bombs. We are all trying to survive. Some try by brute domination, some camouflage themselves "Make America Great Again", some just go to work and try not raise a stink.
As a conscious member of my species, I am devoted to a cooperative interplay of our individual contributions. I am personally dog-tired of the dominating brutes who suck the energy out of the rest of us.
We have created a system that is pretty damn good, but our own apathy has created a vacuum where the dominating brutes are flourishing every more brazenly. The system has been designed to limit their effects, but we are at a threshold where the design itself is at risk, see: North Carolina Legislature.
Let's figure out what we need to do and get it done.
Colin
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