Did you study evolutionary biology in college, or what was your focus? Your posts are crisp and informative, thank you. Some of what you write almost seems intuitive as well. That doesn't diminish the points. Your scientific-historical perspective is a perfect read on the current crisis, but one that has severe costs because it implies a…
Did you study evolutionary biology in college, or what was your focus? Your posts are crisp and informative, thank you. Some of what you write almost seems intuitive as well. That doesn't diminish the points. Your scientific-historical perspective is a perfect read on the current crisis, but one that has severe costs because it implies a choice. Like the escaped slave running into barbarian tribes: do we continue to behave in concert with this postmodern dreck, pretending America still exists as it was, but suffering totalitarian ruin? Or do we fully resort to tribalism, resuscitate as many of the saplings of civilization as possible, walling off, going to war, killing other Americans in a total destruction of this nation but a preservation of a future civilization? That's the Mad Max/Idiocracy future, indeed. It didn't have to be this way, but one of our biggest weaknesses in the past thirty-fifty years has been to allow stupid people to say stupid things and not be corrected for fear of judgment, that includes the youth and their naturally sociopathic distrust of mature systems of organization. I think it's going to be a slow crawl to destruction and reformation. The totalitarianism that has developed will continue until all past norms are entirely trampled and there's a generational break - then it'll be Mad Max mayhem, with few wizened fellows to reeducate the warriors. I write fiction and studied literature, however, so this is also an indulgence of my particular brand of intelligence.
Did you study evolutionary biology in college, or what was your focus? Your posts are crisp and informative, thank you. Some of what you write almost seems intuitive as well. That doesn't diminish the points. Your scientific-historical perspective is a perfect read on the current crisis, but one that has severe costs because it implies a choice. Like the escaped slave running into barbarian tribes: do we continue to behave in concert with this postmodern dreck, pretending America still exists as it was, but suffering totalitarian ruin? Or do we fully resort to tribalism, resuscitate as many of the saplings of civilization as possible, walling off, going to war, killing other Americans in a total destruction of this nation but a preservation of a future civilization? That's the Mad Max/Idiocracy future, indeed. It didn't have to be this way, but one of our biggest weaknesses in the past thirty-fifty years has been to allow stupid people to say stupid things and not be corrected for fear of judgment, that includes the youth and their naturally sociopathic distrust of mature systems of organization. I think it's going to be a slow crawl to destruction and reformation. The totalitarianism that has developed will continue until all past norms are entirely trampled and there's a generational break - then it'll be Mad Max mayhem, with few wizened fellows to reeducate the warriors. I write fiction and studied literature, however, so this is also an indulgence of my particular brand of intelligence.
Thank you for that!