insulted...insulting

 

lol i am well aware of my limitations.  actually, i have the notion that i am far less competent than the incompetent doofus i know i am.

i mean, it really boggles my mind to realize how misinformed and opinionated i am.  i'm like vapor, i am so inconsequential.  so i remain uninsulted and don't mind the occasional puppy popping up.  it's all in a days existence.

 

as for how threatening a species we are, i don't really buy it.  i think that the violence we have among ourselves is an essential (if horrible) consequence of the structure of the organism we make up.  different ideas clash sometimes violently.  people fight over resouces they could just as easily obtain switching to other sources.  but none of us can contemplate the whole picture, so we find ourselves desparate and behave ghoulisly as if that's our only possible route.  the violence is useful in the evolution and maintenence of the larger organism, or it would not exist.  part of the conflict is, after all, in the very peaceful person refusing to see the value in the existence of the violent person, and the other way around. we ask ourselves, how can someone oppose our belief system (as a nation) when surely they must know that we are right and they are wrong?  they must be monsters, or manipulated for evil gains.  the people dying for their causes must surely be insane, whereas the ones dying for our causes are heroic.

now, if these attitudes were not useful for the further growth of the society, they would die out.  but they haven't.  they won't.  and we will continue soulfully killing into our future.

there are surely some alien races whose development did not go this route, possibly learning how to implement change in their members with the thoroughness and speed that our societies do with war and other violence.  but have no doubt that there are those just like us out there too.

after all, canada could attack the u.s. any time.  we don't have a problem with them do we?

hopefully we'll be as nutty as we are when we leave here, because therein lies our evolution.

go that way really fast.
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