How does it work for you?

April 30th, 2005

Foreword:
Based on the previous post, I’ve decided to complete an article I comenced weeks before I travelled to Argentina, I hope the latter paragraphs live upto the first few.
Further to this, I’d like to mention that this following article is not aimed at encouraging or promoting descrimination, I am writing to express a plausable explanation for the worlds unbalanced ways and perhaps encourage you the reader to develope a progressive solution to the possible problems.


Unbeknown (previously) to me, there are two views on human evolution to explain the different races that we find on this planet. The one I disagree with, which follows the idea that at one single point in history man stopped being an ape and thence on, forked into different races with all our perculiar attributes.

I however, I personally see that this step from ape to man occurred at different times on several occassions and/or from different breeds of ape the outcome is what you see. Look at some of these hidden far and rare species of ape that are so close to making that very step now that you could in fact just say they are in the progress of making that step.

To me, evolution is much like growing up. From childhood you go through many processes of learning, albeit factual/objective, philosophical, chemical or merely just adaptation to your own kind. For example:

Firstly you learn to use your muscles to move and make sounds, you then refine this movement into a more dexterous capacity and soon you learn how to close your fingers to hold and clap and coordinate your body to a final stage of being able to move with some agility e.g. crawling then onto walking.
From there on, you start learning to communicate and this process of intensive learning really does take a considerable amount of your early years.

I’ll keep the rest of this short, as I know, I could drivel on for hours about this…

For the rest of your life after growing up you adapt and develop and with any luck by the end of your life you’ll be considered a wise old fart. The thing I really am trying to get at, is that being human is not the final stage of evolution. I do believe we’ll progress with no end.

Some cultures/races on this planet have been keeping record of their history for thousands of years, whilst others only hundreds. It is therefore my honest opinion that those who have been keeping record the longest have been that walking the earth the longest, since the others cannot prove otherwise.

Maybe I should elaborate through a different example, though getting at the same point:

You have 3 children, a three year old, a twelve year old and a fifteen year old. You cannot expect all three children to be at the same level of understanding. From this, you can also say that you cannot treat all three children the same. You cannot expect that the 15 year old would want his older peers to look down at him and go “Whoooooose a big boy then?”, nor would you expect to speak to the three year in a manner in which implies that the child has any responsibility for itself.

From having said all this, it would be fair to assume that I am suggesting that every different race of human is at a different level of evolution and much like the different aged children we deserve to be treated with equality although accepting evolutional differences. Whilst some may have developed attributes that others have not, it is not to say that what I condone is some devine race to a finish line of superiority, since we have already agreed that there is no end to development. The world is at a fearfull state of unbalance, which is much like a primary school with no teachers; there is chaos with nobody to assume responsibility, those being in control ought to be the ones being controlled and everyone has their idea of what they want to do.

So what I am saying really, is that we aren’t all equal. We are not in all the position to state “hey, thats unfair, we deserve the same privelages as you”. As with the child example; you would not want to give a very young child the same pocket-money as an older child (not saying that 15 year olds know what they’re doing any better than 3 year olds), but there is a logical stage in which you can justify and perhaps say: £5 a week pocket money needs to turn into £15. Granted, I was never given pocket money and I have my own hang-ups about that, but I’m dealing with it..hehe.

I’m certain that there must be some of you there going this is starting to sound like “four legs good…two legs better” (quote: Animal Farm) and you’ll be perfectly right. The only problem being is that, you’ll forever be trapped in an idealistic world in which you cannot accept the concept of hierarchy.

Post submission comment:
I realize this article can somewhat advocate racism should that be what you’re trying to find. This is not the intention of this article, I merely am trying to transcend to the reader that in the great scale of things, who is in the position to say what they need. Surely there ought to be a proven elder that can govern such decisions. Wait!! this sounds worse… OK, well put it this way… developed nations who have “stable” societies and advanced technology and missle defence systems sell their weapons to “unstable” developing nations. I think this is going horridly bad. Let me clarify with an example:

Lets for a moment imagine children and adults in a hardware shop. Now lets not bring in, psychos and minority exceptions that would prove this example flawed. You have a hardware store that sells all sorts of products that could be used potentially to harm others or oneself. Children if sold any of the above mentioned items could quite easily do damage.

Let also remember with youth you have arrogance and self electing responsibility which is not deserved or warranted until proven otherwise. So you have a situation of an obstinate person exclaiming that he or she is to be trusted and yet is not… which if you return to what I’m speaking about (evolution, incase you forgot)…. some cultures/races are somewhat in this very same situation… and that is why there is (back to the hardware store example) age limits on products such as knives, solvents, etc.
What I’m trying to say is, that should there be a form of system for governing who is “evolved” enough to be trusted with…..

I know, I am not a fully “evolved” enough person, to fit in with today’s social system and do not by any means think by writing this makes me superior; for that would be a great misconception. I merely have the point of view that there is a great unbalance with evolutionary maturity that for some imbecilic reason is governed by equality.

Lastly, this is my opinion….. what is yours?


2 Comments to “How does it work for you?”


  1. natti said:

    Ahh see, I get what your saying it does make sence, but if you take into consideration that the oldest human bones where found in the center of africa, which is consided to be economically undeveloped and still quite primative in areas. It enables us to see that there a huge lack of education rather than people being evolved, for example, Europeans, travelled immencly thus improving education in all areas, culture, geography, language and science was able to delop so much better once they decieded to take over the world. where as people in Africa only traveled from village to village, so only marginally developed skills mainly agriculture, so there fore, lack in education thus if sold leathal wepons, would be potentially dangerous as they are not educated, instead of “ohh I have a dangerous wepons, I better only use it if its realy needed” the thought process is more likely to be “ohh I have a cool wepon let me blow up people.”” Rather like 11 year olds with lighters “ohh I have a lighter let me burn things.” really.
    Does that make any sence?

    natti
    xxx


  2. a-v0id said:

    Natti darling, I think for the rest of the readers I should explain something I’ve already told you. I’m not arguing that the oldest human bones were found in Africa… ignorantly I thought everyone knew that every last human on earth derives from Africa at some point in history. It is just a matter of when. After thousands of years of evolution; travel becomes aparent and with that we find developed races in different parts of the world with different characteristics. Those little tribes in africa who do not have any medium of transportation beyond walking are somewhat where we all started at some point.. they’ll find reasons to move and migrate and with that become more inventive and produce more. Make any sense?

    Want me to amend the article?

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