I was driving home tonight from a friends house, Im not a total shut in, but close enough. I started thinking about survival of the fittest and what it means. Well I get home and decide to just not say anything. Well, reading a comment on a blog changed my mind on that one.
By nature, man is an animal, so why are we so abhorent of our own behaviors that we label them evil? The younger stealing jobs from the older people. What about the older animal that doesnt have the stamina to out run the younger predators? I know, lets form a group in the government to protect the aging animals from the younger ones.......... Is it fair? No, but who am I to decide what has worked for thousands of years before man came along and f*cked it all up? This is where my problem with christianity starts. Its a caging of our animal instincts, sex bad unless your married. Look how good that works out.
We try so damn hard to seperate the animal from the entity. You cant do that, its one in the same. Every action we make, though modernized, has its roots buried deep within our animal instinct of survival. To breed, to feed ourselves and have a higher place than another in their tribe.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. Mankind is insane. We sit and preach that everyone is equal and try to treat each other that way. The lie begins. In our own souls, we know we are not equal. I will let you make the judgement call on how you view others, I have not walked in your shoes, nor you mine, so perspective is key.
We have evolved a bit more than, "hey, lets feed grandma to the wolves and watch her run" mentality. Well, minus obamas health care farce. We set up a socialist system where people pay money in to help take care of the weak and elderly. Fine, whatever, I have no real arguement with that other than how they do treat the elderly.
Economic survival is the same thing. A business trying to attract a younger group of consumers probably wont have older people work in their stores. Who would want fashion advice from grandpa? "damnit, I told you to pull those pants up young man". If you truely wanted to make an impact, rather than mindlessly whine about how life isnt fair, boycott these places and have others do the same. That would force an evolutionary shift in company policy. If the money isnt comming in, then change tactics to get more to come in. But no, we go to these places and buy their crap re-enforcing the behavior of the corperation.
we have become an intellectual animal that can now sidestep evolution. As we learn, we become more capable of more things, and more able to survive hardships. But laziness has crept in and set into the souls of man. We want everything with the least amount of effort. Then we sit and bitch that the rich have more stuff than we do. So what? That makes us slaves to a base instinctual desire of being higher in the tribe.
Yes we need to take care of ourselves first and screw everyone else. Its in our best interests to maintain ourselves before we can even really help someone else. That goes for family as well. Yes I do understand parents sacrafice for their children, but if they dont take care of themselves in some form, they cannot properly take care of their children or anyone else for that matter. How can you feed your family if you cannot move from hunger type thing.
The stronger and the intellectually superior will always dominate in some way, shape or form. You just have to choose what you are. Are you the prey or the predator?
Larry
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Hooks
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Oct 22 @ 8:08PM
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I think you are right, it is about a person's perspective on things. I did a short blog on perspective some time back, and used this as an example.
Two snails were sitting on a turtle's back, and one snail turned to the other and said "Hang on Harry, he's getting ready to take off!"  It's all about perspective! 
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Oct 22 @ 8:58PM
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Survival of the fittest is a Darwinian term, but it applies to genetic groups more than individuals.
Survival does not necessarily go to the fittest in human dealings. We have developed morals which limit individuals in order that society in general may better survive.
An individual without moral scruples can rob, steal, and murder at will, and have a certain advantage for a while. But the larger group recognises him, and jails or executes him, for the greater group's survival. The one on one battle is not the final contest. That goes to the strongest or best armed, and later, in the long run, society sorts it out
For an ethic to be valid, it must be able to be applied by all people. Obviously, if we all rob, steal, and murder, society will collapse, and we will all be without its protection, and our entire species will suffer.
While outlaws have a certain romantic catchet, all of us mimicing their behavior would result in disaster.
And then there are the works of Browning, Colt, and Smith and Wesson. With their help one small man canovercome several large ones. Survival of the fittest becomes survival of the best armed, or most economically able.
The days of two men bashing it out with clubs is gone.
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Fender
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Oct 22 @ 9:59PM
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I don't want to be the prey 
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