Art Nouveau / Franklin Carmichael/ Lake Wabagishik

Uggha muggha. I am working on divesting myself of responsibilities at work that I simply shouldn’t have been doing. I hopped in to keep things afloat during the monumentally stupid and overwrought response to what I feel is a bad case of the flu. Granted, this particular flavor of the flu is really harsh on folks >75 yo with multiple co-morbities, but those folks were just literally buying time anyway. I think that I will someday need to sit down and write a piece on the mindset that thinks living in a nursing home is any kind of life.

Michael is on a roll, so I have been turning over a lot of what he is writing because it does make sense to me. Defining the problem is quite important.

THE “FITTEST” FINISHES LAST

All mammals have two survival instincts that are presupposed in any thought about them. The instincts are to avoid being hurt (pain) and to avoid being hungry. These instincts assist survival by making a perception of pain or hunger a form of punishment. A simple definition of punishment is, anything that the mammal wants to avoid is punishment.

Instinct produces intention to avoid pain, but a mammal must do something to avoid hunger, and the world is such that getting food might be painful because there are predators out getting food too. The fact that Nature operates like a food chain, shows that the two survival instincts are put into conflict by the nature of the world.

Every mammal has the choice of hiding in a safe place and starving - or being sufficiently motivated by the punishment of hunger, to risk the possibility of being attacked themselves, which is the requirement for alleviating hunger. The food chain shows that the punishment of being hungry must be sufficient to keep the whole operation running – so that everybody ends up being eaten sooner or later.

The most valuable resource in the world for a mammal, the one worth dying for, is food. But generally speaking, no mammal needs, or can use, or wants, more food than they can eat, so the additions and subtractions at each link are always regulated within the realm of some maximum desire. This applies until the discontinuity where the chain ends with the human link.

Theoretically, for humans there are no predators to connect the alternatives of hunger and risk of pain; thus, humans live in a completely different world than other mammals, because eating/survival is theoretically safe.

How does Nature handle this discontinuity at the end of the food chain?

With the flow of air, a discontinuity in the flow field resolves itself in a vortex. Imagine within the top link of the food chain, a world where every human is assigned the role equivalent to an organism that exists somewhere between the bottom and top of Nature’s complete food chain – so Nature’s full food chain ends by becoming another chain within the top link, that includes only different humans.

But this chain within the top link is different in that humans do not eat other humans. This chain, unlike the food chain, is regulated by what humans call morals.

What do humans sacrifice in the name of morals?

Humans give up having the option of eating other humans … but everything else on earth is game, which helps to reduce the penalty of being moral.

The moral agreement within the human link is that everybody gets to survive and not starve, but everybody must labor for some portion of their life, to make a profit for the group that occupies the (predator) link above them.

The problem is that a food chain designed to produce a maximized profit is unnatural in the sense that the life of the chain organism requires ever increasing resources, that can only come from the remainder of Nature’s food chain.

So, what will happen?

Sooner or later Nature will put a halt to any sideshow designed to profit from natural resources, but there is no end to the possibilities as to how the race of profiteers at the top of Nature’s food chain will ultimately be shut down.

Now, imagine within the top link of the human chain, there is yet another whole chain of humans. We must be approaching the fittest of the human race, who will be identified, when all other humans are gone. This is the result of an idea that humans came up with, to extract a profit from Nature.