Life is getting so very globalized, complicated, and thus dangerous, where not taking a position is taking a position. A game where most will lose, none can quit, and all will die from. What fun.>
Jay, of all the creatures and people who ever lived, only an insignificant fraction of them have descendants living today. 99.9999999...9% of the lineages have been extinguished by the harsh exigencies of existence. We, The Living, on the other hand, are the remarkable products of eons-long multitudes of ancestors, not a single one of whom was killed before passing their DNA onto the next in the line, despite the most challenging ordeals, hazards and near-misses.
So, the odds are dramatically stacked against us continuing that astronomically lucky run, which was equivalent to winning 100 million turns of a roulette wheel without a single loss in all that time, with only one number being bet on.
As you say, quitting isn't an option either. That's taking a position too and a much more fixed position than constant ducking and weaving, catching and fleeing. Fixed position in a world of flux is not the way to be represented an eon from now.
It's enough fun to make a cat laugh.
What seems incongruous is the casual, damaging and risky way in which we handle our corporeal existence given the hundreds of millions of years of vast struggle for survival and reproduction by the hordes of lives which were our ancestors, which led in a direct line to our selves. The unbelievably fortunate product of such an amazing journey of survival should be treated like the Crown Jewels by the owner, but we are almost indifferent.
Onward,
Mqurice |
