Surviving Idiots

Terry

SURVIVING IDIOTS

There is in every species a "best" at surviving.

99.99 % of every species which has ever existed has perished.

ONE PER CENT of all who every lived = is us right now.

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Is that fair?

If you have just $4,210 to your name, you’re better off than half of people around the globe right now.

Among our 1% there is another 1% in a continuous

filtering process from weak to strongest, poor to richest.

Each 1% produces yet another 1% because

everything is always sorted from least to most.

Sorting this out is maddening.

Societies which have experimented with equality, fairness, and altruism have been surprised at their own downfall when inevitably it arrives.

(The Golden Age of Pericles : 495 to 429 B.C.E. Pericles transformed his city’s alliances into an empire and graced its Acropolis with the famous Parthenon. His policies and strategies also set the stage for the devastating Peloponnesian War, which would embroil all Greece in the decades following his death.)

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Are there reasons for no EQUALITY?

Yes.

We all want the BEST and that instantly creates a hierarchy

form "least" to "best" from which we choose.

Colleges, Employers, the Military, Sport teams, Businesses, all want

the BEST among the field and that automatically means

Winners and Losers.

The famous Bell Curve

In the bell curve, the highest point is the one that has the highest probability of occurring, and the probability of occurrences goes down on either side of the curve.

Call the Left hand side: LOSERS

Call the Right Hand side: WINNERS

Call the Middle : Struggling to move to the Winner side.

Human differences are REAL.

None of us gets to start even.

The game is IN PROGRESS when we arrive.

Everyone and every thing can be subdivided into BEST to WORST. Everything collapses otherwise into a chaos of incompetency and idiocracy.

Sound familiar?
Idiocracy is rule by elite idiots who cheat the system by pretending to be the best of the best.

We ignore this at our own peril.

POLITICS is two wolves and a sheep voting on "What's for lunch?"

Who will cry "Unfair?"

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The bulge in the Bell Curve is the voter pool. It thinks it is selecting
from among the right hand side and not the left hand side.
Wrong.

Developed countries have politicians at local levels all the way up to ruling executive levels.

Should we be surprised at the (lack of) quality of these elected officials?

Developed countries are in chaotic turmoil even with carefully selected leaders who are "the best of an extracted group of exceptional people."

But voters exist on a scale of competence / incompetence as well.

Switching from Republican to Democrat and Democrat to Republican over and over solves nothing because

we have NO COMPETENCY.

Our incompetent leaders have produced escalating chaos

through an ILLUSION that we are voting between a field of highly competent people.

We are not.

We are shooting in the dark and hitting each other.

Mortal wounds abound.

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iwantoutnow

How ever you slice it - the species is doomed.

We are a cancer to the planets lifeforms:

Everywhere early man colonized, within years most large animals went extinct, and many many others.

There are 7 times as many Cows, Chickens, Pigs, Sheep, than ALL other mammals on earth.

•In Australia—earliest humans: 64,000 years ago; extinction of major mammals--30,000-60,000 years ago

•In the Americas—80% of large animals became extinct around the same time as first human presence there

I believe in overlapping

That's why it's appealing to be a Jehovah Witness, because Jehovah is going to solve the whole problem by getting rid of incompetency and appointing a competent fellow that will rule the earth from heaven.

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Terry

I don't know the we, as a species, are doomed.
I do think our ways of governing, our stability, our economies are heading toward total disruption.
Historically, opportunists rush to fill the void.
Latter day carpetbaggers.
That bulge in the middle will quickly sort into Big Losers and not so lucky winners.
The super-wealthy apparently already know this. I've watched YouTube tours of underground living spaces which look like shopping centers where our present day elite are ready to scale down their above ground freedom and confine themselves in secure subterranean shelters.

T.S.Eliot The Hollow Men

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer -

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of this tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.

blondie

Thanks, Terry. I remember the last line, nice to read the rest of the story.

smiddy3

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.

I seem to remember this is a line out of Neville Shutes book ,"On The Beach"

which was made into a film starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in which she unceremoniously said that Melbourne where the film was made "was the arsehole end the world.or words to that effect.

Excellent thought provoking post.

Surviving Idiots

Terry

iwantoutnow

I believe in overlapping

Terry

blondie

smiddy3

blondie

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Terry

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