Good Morning...

[fallenfool]

Fair warning, if you're not into evolutionary biology, genetics, social history and sexual dynamics, this is gonna bore you to tears...

Oh and it's not meant to be taken hugely seriously, just spouting a few threads going thru my head recently. :D

Comments

[dorkmistresshnt]

Couple of points I would contest with your theory - wars don't always weed out the men as who survived was often more chance and luck than skill - more true as weapons developed. Sure, when it came to using swords skill counts. But arrows don't respect skill. And bullets don't care at all....

Secondly, historically warfare rarely involved an entire generation. Those who were most full of testosterone tended to be the soldiers and others stayed at home and farmed or ran shops or did other stuff. Therefore you could argue that the strongest and bravest were more likely to get killed than the weediest blokes.

Apart from that, interesting theory. You could also add in the changing demographics in - more women are being born than men and rate is increasing.

[fallenfool]

Well, that's evolution for you, it's always seemed to be a case of chance over skill. A finch with a better beak doesn't know it's better evolved than it's surrounding generation. To the finch, it's just blind chance that a mutation has expressed in that generation. We know it's not blind chance but we have the benefit of impartial observation

[twisted_dragon]

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[fallenfool]

I'm with you on that one, another stone age is well overdue. I actually came up with a great idea for a novel about the collapse of British civilisation because of the gulf stream conveyor collapse. That's one that might just happen. We are animals, it's obvious, we're not plants and we're not minerals and we're NOT SPECIAL. We're just weird

[twisted_dragon]

"A crime you didn't commit? So what happened? Did you go on the run in a big black van with a bunch of mates? Did you become soldiers of fortune, fighting the good fight, for a price? Did you ever turn the van into a battering ram? ;)"

Nah it was more like telling the police man to politely feck himself for not checking the fingerprints more closely. After I pointed out several distinctive differences between my fingerprints and the ones on his arrest sheet he left quietly. As for turning the van into a battering ram, now thats another story ;-)

You have a good point about the 'live to breed' but I think primal instinct is way more complictated than we can comprehend - or at least we are to close to see the whole picture, but that would be drifting into chaos\quantum type theories.

At the root of it (I believe) we are a selfish species, rather than simply being selfish on an individual level we are selfish on many interwoven ones. Such levels as individual-family-culture-race-species are exemplified throughout human society.

[fallenfool]

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck da Police! Fuck. Fuck. Fuck da police! Fuck em!

See, I think, in a nutshell, that's the problem, not many species can override their primal instincts but we can, well I can, your mileage may vary. I think that's why things are so complicated with humans, let's face it, the rest of the animal world just screws whenever the wind is right. OK, mammals put a bit of effort in afterwards but most of nature breeds, births and bogs off.

Add to that humans are constantly being programmed with memes as we grow up (like faith, faith is such a meme) that we then spend most of our adult life either testing and discarding OR burying our heads in the sand. It leads to us being complicated but then, we are the leading expression of complicated genetics. Some would say the Bacteria have got the right idea...

[fallenfool]

Hello dere

[beyond_reach]

long words every were

how ya doin rob alls good i hope :D

[fallenfool]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

All good, as good as all can be. I texted ya back but I dunno if u got it. Give us a call if you get bored.

[darkspider]

3 things, i'll try and stay on topic i promise

[fallenfool]

Pheremones? Could be, haven't read much about pheremones to be honest. When I was a wee lad doing my biology studies pheremones weren't getting much love from the scientists, maybe that's changed

[darkspider]

yeh thats like the episode dunno if its same one as its very new... :\ like after where i last downloaded i got series 1-like a monthago.

its been in this last month... :\

and ooooooooh the reaping indeed

[fallenfool]

I think I found it when I decided to "find out just what this scientology shit is" just b4 xmas. It looked like South Park, sounded like Matt doing the voiceover...