Reply #1: I hope so [View All]

[sui generis]

back when we were a bunch of monkeys running around to see who's gene line would get to go on I think the monkeys who learned to fight against individual's unfair brute strength by effectively rallying many brutes were the ones who lived to pass on their genes. The original leveling drift.

My opinion on Ghandi pacifism is that it only works when your opponent has a conscience or something of great value to lose, but you risk your life on that bet. I'm suspecting that overall, pacifism as a genetic trait is less successful in civilizations with weapons of mass destruction and the will to use them.

I'm observing that in the confrontation between ethics and amorality, however, the leveling drift drifts back, and people who are willing to break the rules and cheat when everyone else is obsessed with the rules are the ones who will win.

Finally, not a lawyer, but in a society of words, the ones who control the language we use to describe the taboo and the unacceptable are the ones who can cheat in plain sight. So as we humiliate people to death while effectively questioning them, and as inexplicable voting irregularities are overriden by supreme court justices on the absurdia of preserving the handpicked candidate from political harm and hardship, the nice guys lose.

We know who the monsters are, and now finally we're figuring out they are real. I hope this election proves that we don't need torches and pitchforks to get rid of them, but unless something changes in the future they are going to start eating sheep again, sooner or later.