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It sucks knowing that you and your ilk will lose the evolutionary battle to an inferior mutation

I often wonder about the randomness of nature.  Evolution has countless examples of beneficial genetic mutations forever altering the course of a species.  Maybe 1 in 1,000,000 mutations is actually beneficial to a species.  Of that small number, even fewer have a chance to procreate.  Think about how the history of our planet may have been altered numerous times if that one in a million genetic mutation hadn't died before reaching sexual maturity.  There are those that say if that occurred, then maybe the mutation wasn't so great.  But what about happenstance?  What if that particular speciman was struck by a falling branch, or broke their leg through no fault of their own and were given away to the food chain.   Another thought I have along these lines is how do species endure genetic mutations that aren't beneficial?  Let's say a species gets a mutation that exponentially increased virility, but also comes with the negative side effect of ...
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Recursive Hatred

The world is chock-full of dipshits and assholes.  When you are keenly aware of this fact you subconciously put up a guarded wall that inhibits organic friendships from forming.   Intellectuals typically lack implementation so I don't find much solace in cavorting with them.  The ignorant, it goes without saying, are spared no quarter by me either.  When your reality dwells in this grey zone, you find yourself utterly alone in a foreign land.  You against the world.  This weighs heavy on the heart.  It is sad.  This reality is mostly buried in the hustle and bustle of every day life.  It is only when starkly confronted with a dipshit or an asshole (these two are far from mutually exclusive) that this depression inducing reality comes to the fore.   I think what gets to me the most is that in a confrontation with a dipshit, I am always the one that pays the price regardless of outcome.  Dipshits typically lack introspecti...
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Community

Community.  It's a word I've heard thrown around a lot since I moved to the south.  Mostly relegated to rural communities, there's been a digging in of the heels as if they were under attack.  If you were to speak to many of these folks you'd find that they truly believe they ARE under attack.  Their communities.  Their churches.  Their very way of life.  I can see how they see it this way but, from a more macro perspective, what's really under attack is their resistance to change.  Merriam-Webster defines community as: "a unified body of individuals: such as                 a : the people with common interests living in a particular area"                Given that, in modern times, people in a "particular area" come from different socio-economic, ethnic and political backgrounds I don't be...
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Incompetence

  When my son was a baby, maybe 2 years old, I distinctly remember an episode on a playground where he and a number of other similarly aged children were playing in a sandbox.  They were all friendly, or at least indifferent towards each other and readily shared the toys that were randomly cast about in the sand.  Except for one child.  He would scream bloody murder anytime another child put a finger on a toy he was even mildly interested in. Regardless of the toy, he'd throw a fit if another kid so much as looked at it. I always paid special attention to situations like this.  Some children would get upset.  Some children would quizzically observe.  And yes, a select few children would act with aggression.   I watched the episode through to its logical conclusion.  A parent on their phone, not paying attention to the present, looking  up in horror as her child smacks another kid in the face with a sand shovel, picks up the toy that wasn...
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Alienated

I had tempered hope for the 2020 election.  I hoped that it would be a sound rejection of the hatred and transparently authoritarian bent of the previous four years.  This election would prove that we are primarily a nation of good people and that 2016 was not a harbinger, but a blip.  A moment in time that we, as a majority, were caught napping.  It would never happen again.  The real silent majority would rise up and put things properly in their place.  I had no allusions that this would be a quick and painless process but we would at least be headed in the right direction.  Unfortunately, these comforting thoughts do not reflect reality.   Donald Trump is not a man. He is not a business person.  He is not a president.  He is a litmus test.  The 2020 Presidential Election was not an election of an American president, it was a raw, uncomfortable stare into who we are as a nation.  If you are any combination of fearful, r...
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