Evolution?

A while back, I was walking up a "mountain" side in California. I noticed one of those fluffy seeds that become wind born, like milkweed, floating away on a breeze. Though Kris and I were together, we were alone with our thoughts as we walked. Anyhow, the seed awakened a thought that had been with me long before this particular walk and persists to this day ... that is, what is the nature of intelligence and is it the sole purview of human beings? Relating to this question, I think that one has two fundamental alternatives; one, the biblical version of why things are or two, some version of Darwinism. As any of you who know me know well know, my opinion is, that religious texts tend to be rather dull works of fiction, not very plausible substitutes for a more rigorously scientific explanation of reality. In other words, it's a really good story and one that is easy to believe for those among us who possess the requisite faith (my personal feeling is, that the idea of an unseen being that made things happen in the eyes of an uneducated population, e.g., the god of lightening provides a plausible explanation for fire, is the seed from which most of the dogma has sprung). If anyone really takes the time to think about things, one has no choice but to see the contradictions in religious texts. That's really the point that I want to make - most folks really don't think - really think. It's much harder to think. I'd really like to be able to accept everything that I see as god's plan, but there are too many contradictions. Look at it this way; if man is made in the image and likeness of god and if man is as screwed up as he certainly seems to be, doesn't it stand to reason that god is a mess too? If my thinking is flawed though, the whole thing is a pretty good joke, an experiment in the creation of a being that is supposed to evolve to become god-like but lacks a decent role model.

So, why is man so suggestible?

Back to the milkweed seed and a plausible alternative to the bible. All things that have the ability to reproduce possess intelligence - reproduction takes some level of "thought". The whole survival of the fittest notion pretty much sums it up in terms that anyone can relate to. Think about migration and the way things move around ... pollen as an example. Did you know that ragweed produces 1,000 times as much pollen when it feels threatened with extinction? The point is, ideas seem to exist in some form of an ether. We all possess some level of this knowledge. This is the real original sin. It's that little germ in our minds to which very few of us have the desire to visit. It tells us that, yes, we all have that ability to be god-like but to admit it is to admit that we're pretty much failures because very few of us really follow what what we want to do or to be. So there is this fundamental escape from reality. The reality that we have created a reality that is governed by religious cults and politicians who do the bidding's of those who fund their existence. Religions housed the only books that existed thousands of years ago and, one way or another, they all told the same story and they all used the same hook - eternal life. It works, because we all have this fundamental sense that there is more than what we can see. There probably is, but it's not housed in heaven and hell, it's the ether ... it's where ideas reside.

I suppose that I could go on, but I have a short attention span and I want to make the following point again: the reason why we are in this economic pickle is that we don't think. A big reason why, has to do with the fact that so many of us have gotten behind the eight ball because of easy credit. So how did it happen? Who allowed it to happen? You all know the answers. So, are you going to do anything about it or are you going to re-elect the idiots that facilitated the whole mess? Huh punk, are ya?