Evolution or Peace?
What happened to the good old days? The days where your life was constantly in peril, where a mistep can swiftly remove your genetic line from mankind's family tree?
Instead we have warning labels and laws that protect us from ourselves. We have hospitals that let people with genetic defects live in our cushy, comfy society.
I used to want world peace until I thought about what it would mean. Peace is the end of evolution. Peace is the absence of change. Change is evolution. When the human race stops evolving, there will be peace.
I want to keep evolving. Why do you think there is a constant class struggle within the human race? Evolution is trying to play itself out.
The way I see it, mankind is polluting itself. We have all but removed the original natural selection mechanism from nature: death. We no longer permit people to use their brain to determine their own survival. Instead, we've built a castle of idiot-proof rules, which harbor mostly idiots.
Half of everyone on Earth is below average. How do we fix that? I don't see the problem solving itself anytime soon, so long as there's a warning label for every possible form of death.
Since resources here on Earth are coming up short, the "right" to live will soon be a challenge, much like it should be. Americans should have enjoyed Utopia while we had it, because now it's slipping out of our control.
The problem with cleansing the human gene pool is that no one wants to step up and do it, or, if someone does step up and do it, we start a world war over it. We're not exactly sure what sort of people should be "selected". Do we pick a bunch of smart people? Attractive people? Athletes? Everyone's idea of a perfect human is different, so we'll never settle on who should get knocked off.
Deciding is the hard part though. For the sake of argument, let's say that we reach a majority for who should be allowed to live and who shouldn't. That conclusion is that people with above average human traits should get to live and people with below average human traits should not get to. People that live are above average in intelligence, physical stature, genetic stability, and emotional stability.
How do you pull it off, though? The Dunning-Kruger effect will pull it off for you. The reason we even reached a majority of who should be offed was because of this effect in the first place. People never think they are below average, so they happily signed a law because they all just assumed they were above average.
But why do we want to do such an evil thing? For the long term survival of the human race. I'm sick of the morons that say global warming is conspiracy liberal agenda. For fuck's sake people, this is your planet we're talking about. Why even take the risk? Selfish. You are all fucking selfish.
I don't want your silly religious bureaucracy interfering with my efforts to make the world a better place. I'm tired of dragging you, kicking and screaming, all the way to the finish line where you look at me and say "I guess you were right after all."
I want to evolve. You clearly do not. Instead of pursuing truth and knowledge, you cling to your invisible advice giving psychics and ancient tomes. Yet, rather than accept your place in evolution as a subservient being, you continue to interfere with our work and effort.
You do not deserve to reap the fruits of our labor, for you did nothing to benefit the process, and everything you could to foil our plans.
It's time to let rational thought prevail and enlighten our world, for the very survival of mankind depends on purging our ignorance.
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After much thought and consideration, I've arrived at the following conclusion.
I've ultimately decided that genocide is not a good way of going about doing things. Neither is symbiotic slavery.
However, this option will likely be despised more than death of half the human race.
The option is flawless and inarguable accountability. In short, everything everyone does is recorded with video and audio. No exceptions.
While this is drastic, it could be done peacefully. A lot of people's feelings would get hurt. Imagine a wife tuning in to her husband while she's at work, only to find him at home with another woman. Accountability.
You find out the politician you vote for is accepting campaign contributions from a corporation you think is evil. Accountability.
For something like this, though, we would need a much bigger internet.
The problem with rules is that sometimes they need to be broken to make things better. Rules are for people that don't understand the difference between good and bad, or selfish and selfless. Because everything you do affects someone, other people should have the right to call you out on doing something that's bad. Of course, you have the right to ignore them, but they also have the right to kick your ass for being an unreasonable prick.
I think what I'm really getting at here is that we all have to be able to trust each other. I would be willing to bet that most people only do bad things because they think they won't be held accountable.
People should be allowed to do whatever they want, but only if they can't hide it from anyone. Secrets protect no one but the guilty or the insecure.
02.02.2010. 10:47
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