If you follow the theory of evolution, genetics is the system by which an environment modifies a species. Some people think it's the other way around for some reason, but the truth is that genetics simply provides options for survival in an unpredictable future, an unpredictable environment, an unpredictable society. And our environment, natural or otherwise, culls who cannot survive.

And we've modified our environment. We've added other issues that cull those that cannot survive. We've created economies, and economies aren't good or evil. They just add some spin to the whole 'who gets to survive' issue. Those that are have more economic power have more healthy food available, have better shelter, and yes - better opportunities. It doesn't mean that these guarantee survival but they most certainly help with increasing the potential of survival. So, in our own way, we cull those that can't achieve a certain level of socioeconomic standing by assuring that they (or, we) don't get as good food, as good exercise, as good so on and so forth.

Some people feel bad about that and donate to make their own guilt go away. Famous people like that are sometimes called philanthropists. Maybe they grow enough to see some potential in the downtrodden, but since economic wealth flows up more than down the downtrodden are necessary for accumulating such vast amounts of wealth. The theory may be different but the practice is close to that.

The majority of nations on the planet are democratic. None of them are really democratic within the minutiae. Even so, countries continue saying that democracy is the best system out there...

But if democracy was the best system out there, wouldn't it be a global democracy instead of a collection of semi-democracies? Are the interests of the majority of the planet truly put forward, or instead are they lost within nation-states and then smothered at the global level?

If people shouting about democracy are so sure of it, perhaps they would dare to try it globally instead of conveniently.

I regret the sanity I have. It clashes with the insanity of the world.

You know that person that was just in front of you? Yeah. If you didn't see something nice in that person, someone else will. Yeah, but don't feel bad. Someone else will see something ugly in that person. The problem usually crops up when everyone agrees. They call it democracy.

Someone said that the second coming of Christ will happen. The odds are decreasing, though. Virgins are getting younger and younger these days.

When you have something, you have something to lose. When you are something, you don't.

Exasperation without pragmatic action is worse for your health than smoking unfiltered cigarettes while standing in a puddle of gasoline. On Tuesday. Most doctors wouldn't recommend either.

Worrying you can't do something is worse than finding out that you're right. Worrying about what someone else will do is also worse than finding out that you're right. Worry is just fear in unit time.

This is a first entry under 'scribbling'; it's where I'll start shoving incomplete (and sometimes unrelated)thoughts that I write on paper. They just haven't fleshed out into full entries yet.

Anarchy is the default state of democracy.

The only reason that we believe we are more enlightened than animals is because we have told ourselves that we are.

People don't buy art. They buy the stories that come with the art. This is why religious texts are full of stories. During periods of illiteracy, verbal stories are all that people had. And the love of these stories has resulted in bloodshed, charred flesh, eviscerations, beheadings and much more. Philosophy is so much more clean.

True democracy is socialism in disguise; if the masses are poor then the poor should have greater voice than the rich by virtue of democracy. That doesn't happen.

Chicken breasts aren't supposed to have bones in them. Those are ribs.

Code is not just Law, it is Intent.

We talk about the planet as if we're truly concerned, but it is really the survival of our species we're interested in. Maybe on the next planet we'll do better.