Distortion Layer:05

[outofoptions]

Yes I know it has been a minute! since I've updated. It's not that I've stopped thinking or anything, it's just that I'm always out and I forgot what I wanted to post about. But now summer school is over and my parents are gone for a week, so I can relax and actually try to remember what I wanted to post. For now, here is a quote for you to ponder

Comments

[1337lonewolf]

lol you stopped thinking.

[kharistotle]

We've virtually stopped evolving but we haven't stopped completely. We're done as far as physical evolution I believe. ButAnthony brought up an interesting point to me one time we were having this discussion. We're most likely not done evolving as far as the way our brains work. The brains of today have to be wired differently than the brains of the 1950's you know? Evolution is driven by death. There is no more, "the physically strongest survive." Now it's more, "the smartest and richest survive." Everyone else falls victim to poverty, disease and such and they eventually... die out. This of course, leaves the smartest to continue to mate and propogate their genetic code. Here's a clearer way of looking at it. In a time of war when the US has to draft people to fight who do they draft first? Most people don't know this but they draft the uneducated first. At any given moment there are 10 million kids aged 18-22 who have no education beyond highschool. That's who gets drafted first. It's illegal to draft college students or otherwise

[drdreswankey]

lmao of course the one thing i dont write myself is the one thing you make a long response to. ill make a better reply later lolz

[kill_t]

We're definately still evolving, it's just that people never look at a broad enough scope to realize things. If you look at how any species changed over the course of five hundred years you'd see that it wasn't a very drastic physical change. Look at where we were 50 or 100 thousand years ago. It seems like forever and that we are stalling, but you must keep in mind that your 80 years on this planet is completely insignificant in the history of billions of years.

It only seems like other things are more significant because they have a much broader short term influence on our species. But i think you're right about the genetic engineering thing. We will definately be able to cause our own mutations and fuck with our species, and all trite movie references aside, I think we will cause serious damage if we ever start messing with these things.

Then again... On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

[kill_t]

You didnt want to do the nihilistic quote so I had to.

'Scuse me for reading Palahniuk right now =P

[kharistotle]

P.S. Genetic engineering will allow us to live for hundreds of years. Hence, we don't need evolution. We're past that shit. We'll make ourselves evolve as we see fit. Hehehe