What we are

Our species is complicated.  It has evolved from another species that we share so many characteristics with it is easy to state that even after the 500 thousand years of separation that we are not that different.  Social animals with a very complicated hierarchical structure to our society.  We are omnivores with certain in built functions that have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years like our fight or flight and the easy way we can simply take another life.

Lately of course we have evolved our mental state where we believe that we can change these in built mental functions by simple legislation.   It has lead to the slaughter of millions as our animal instructs refuse to be overcome so easy.   Of course there is the way we are working on now.  Start indoctrinating the children.   Make them all fit in the square holes we are creating for our round bodies.  Those that fail to meet this standard end up in our legal system and in jail or dead where those genes are being wiped out while genes that need to be nurtured because they are unnatural, in nature’s terms, are being deliberately kept alive whilst in the wild they could not survive.

Perhaps this is the way to go.  Genes that we need to be the best survivors are no longer required.   Somehow I think not.  Do we really want a planet full of people who have no ideas or passion and simply get on with whatever work is allocated to them.  Whilst we are stuck on this planet we need people who are going to stretch the boundaries, people to get in the ships and try and go faster than the speed of light.  We need a Chuck Yeager of the space age.   We need scientists who will work on the theory of warp bubbles and creating artificial wormholes so we can progress in space travel.  We also need the Einstein’s etc. working on new power generation technologies as well as people expanding the horizons on health and a million other areas.    We don’t want clones with a few bright Alphas at the helm and no progress.   In addition it is built in to us to climb trees, enquire about things, go looking for adventure and we want the chemicals generated by our bodies when we do it.  The adrenaline rush when we climb a tree or drive at ludicrous speeds is addictive.  The dopamine high we get when we play games and solve puzzles just as much so.   We just can’t change millions of years of evolution in a few years by legislation no matter how much politicians think they can.

Our current society was created by people who increased their knowledge, developed new technologies and advanced our species for their own personal gain. All built on previous developers and scientists.   The first ones that developed explosives to kill, then used by others to clear land and then used by others to travel in space.  All progressed from what started off as savages and each one growing in intelligence to when we were 30 years ago.   In the beginning it was power and wealth and lately just wealth.   Power being usurped by politicians who do not add anything to society at all.

Think over the last 100 years or so to the advances we have made.  The car, the plane, satellites, the phone, electrickery production, medicines, media, computers.    I’m sure you can think of more.   Most of these have been developed by private individuals making their way in the world.    Now look at where these were developed.   The USSR, China, the Middle East?  Don’t make me laugh.   Nope, all in good old capitalist countries where you had an idea you could make money from it.   Why bother in the Middle East when it could get you a very short haircut or in the USSR where it would be subverted for the good of the people.

Now look at the situation.  How many advances have we made over the last thirty years?   No private person can buy any of the ingredients you need to do any science nowadays.  No chemicals, certain equipment is banned and you can expect a visit from plod if you try to get any.   Too dangerous for us but OK for anyone up to 30 years ago.   Even the government thinks we are too thick yet if you are a corporation you can have it all.    Of course this way once they start they don’t have any real competition to develop so it comes out as a basic model and then slowly develops.  We want most of our development in leaps and bound not namby pamby baby steps and drip fed for maximum profit.    Of course when baby steps are required we should take care but those are few and far between.

As well as the rules and regulation that have strangled our innovation and progress we are also faced with the situation when our governments now control the way our companies progress.    All over the free world our socialist governments now own controlling interest in the banks and other key corporates even if those interests are less than 50%.  You take governments money you are beholden to it.    We can be sure that with the government feeding money into car manufacturers then gone are the days of the muscle car no matter what the demand as tighter emissions and control and monitoring systems are introduced and model development stagnates.   Lack of competition and all doing the same lead to that.    However it is with the banks that our government will get the biggest bang for its buck.   A corporate after a loan.  ‘What’s your policy on hiring minorities and what is the percentage of minorities in your workplace?’ will become relevant questions on if a successful corporate gets a loan or not.   Private individuals will be asked for an id card and what they are doing for global warming whilst the reason for the loan will be checked for where it fits in with helpful guidelines on environment policy and its creation of CO2.   Say goodbye to goods that don’t fit our government view as they won’t be banned per se but you will not be able to get a loan to make them or a loan to buy one even if someone makes one with their own money and why would anyone risk their own money on something nowadays.  Much better sticking to making a small but steady profit in something that gives steady income for little risk at the moment.  The alternative is to set up a company with a mandatory partner who invests no money.  Takes 40% of the take and sets all the rules you have to follow.  Out of your portion of the funding of course.   No wonder small companies are disappearing at the moment and we are not innovating any more.  It’s all about getting the most our of previous innovators.  Tweaks to existing products but nothing new.

We are now at the stage where the only development going on is development for our government funded by the government for its ends.    Usually on new systems to monitor and oppress it’s subjects.   Stalin would be proud that his children have become so successful that nowhere in the world is there anywhere to be truly free today.

I’m personally convinced that the IQ of our society is going down.   We are receiving poor education, indocrinated and emasculated to fit an ideal which in the short term will stall human progress.

To end on a positive note.    Socialist societies cannot survive long term.  They can be created and they can destroy millions of lives.   This time it will be billions I am sure but inevitably they will fall.   Our species does not support them and people rebel.  Usually not openly but eventually it builds until they do.  The first die by being pitted against a highly trained army or police force but then more and more join then the few traitors who stand against their own people cannot stand against the masses.    Why do you think it takes 20 plod to take down one drug dealer, one suspected terrorist.  They need overwhelming force to frighten the rest of us.    That is one advantage the American people have over us.  Their second amendment means there are millions of guns out there but even there as New Orleansshows they don’t need to be prised from cold dead hands when plod comes to collect them but if they ever rose up en masse.  Governments would fall.    Pity we don’t have such a law.

Anyway, we are still a social species, people get on with each other and we happily barter and trade make friends and progress on our merry way through life.  Nothing much interferes with our wish to live our lives and leave others to live theirs.    That is where the politicians get involved of course.   And screw it up for all.