Fireduck

1999.10.12

My birthday is in a few days. It is kinda funny the useless milestones we celibrate. I will be a year older...I would like to think a year wizer also, but it is hard to tell. Money is again making me bitter. Oh well. I'll either learn or I'll die. At least that is the idea behind capitolizm. Kinda shitty if you get shafted by life somehow and no one cares because you don't have money, but it has a certain darwinistic appeal that I like...I like it not because of all the people is shafts and not because it puts the rich few standing on the backs of the working man, but because it provides some striff, some threat of losing, some chalange, someway of failing or winning...maybe it will make us stronger as a society...probably not because the rich often didn't make their own money and are therefor weak and the ones who don't do well still breed. It sounds kinda harsh, but in order for a society to become stronger, the strong have to be nurished while the weak die. My theory (and a vastly un-informed theory it is) is that most of our generic predispositions and phycological makeup was developed durring the time when humans were still vieing for survival itself...back then the ideal way to behaive was to help all other humans get along, that made us the strongest because it increased our numbers and allowed us to populate the world. Now that there are so many of us, maybe it is time for a culling of the heard...maybe...that dosen't seem right though...it seems logicly correct, but there has to be anouther answer..anouther way to make the next step, without resorting to coldhearted measures that we all feel are wrong...I think that if something is not done, then society will degrade till anything goes...till anything is acceptable...I don't know how to logicly defend that idea right now, but it seems correct. I don't know. I think the best thing that can happen to earth right now would be a direct outside threat to enter the picture forcing us all to work togather to overcome this threat. The day that a talking bug lands in new york is the day that the chineese man on the other side of the world seems like your bother a lot more than he did the day before....even vastly diffrent cultures on earth will almost definatly be very similar compared to what some other intelegence might have....one thing I like to consider is having no assumptions...try to think of extra-terrestrial intelegence...forget everything you know...startrek is all bullshit in that respect...alians will not look like us, they wont talk like us, they wont think like us, they wont group in communities the same way we do....we have no idea what to expect. Who knows what they could be like, if they developed complete independantly of earth and in a completely diffrent environment...maybe somewhere, the surface biomass of an entire planet became sentient and consous as one entity...maybe they will look at earth with our communications networks and air travel and assume that must be what hapened to us. There is one madman that I want to talk to...issac asmov...I know that is spelled wrong, but oh well. He is/was a madman. Me go sleep now.

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