Monday, January 10, 2005
MOTHERS LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS!
Yay! and there was much rejoicing! ^_^ pushed out of hiding finally, here I am again! mothers lock up your daughters! ^_^ or dont. probably no threat either way! but once again on with the show
So long since last post, how to recap. Ok, really quick. Still Car-less, insurance payed out so looking around. Christmas was good (had to work 3 hours on Chrissy day) Got the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD as well as the traditional Socks and Jocks! )although I do admit i needed new socks!). Didnt end up eating too much after all! so yay for not getting fat! That week, Nicole left for Manchester, good luck to her for her new job! New Years, had to work the open (get up at 5:30 shift) at Civic Video on new Years day, so it was a very small one. I ushered in the New Year at a friend's place, half asleep, watching the Italian Job ^_^
Since then Its been music music music. and by that i mean music Summer School. Its a condensed Uni thing over 2 weeks (Jan 2-14) 8:30-4:30 each day. we start with Aural Musicianship, then go to Methodology and Materials then in the afternoon finish with Choir and finally conducting. its harsh. especially once ive now come down with a virus that makes me cough constantly and makes me unable to tell what pitch im currently singing! :P
And that brings us up do date. Other than the above stuff, nothing much new. Christmas Choir, which i conducted this year went well at the Christmas eve services, so im happy about that one!
So on to the main event!
Now, As I was eating my lunch today - a tuna and greek yoghurt sandwich - i got thinking. you know they say tuna is brain food. Anyhoo.
I got thinking about how Humanity as a species has stopped evolving. Natural selection doesnt happen anymore, and nearly everyone gets married, mixing whatever genes with whatever genes. the strong and the weak survive, this got me thinking. Is this a good thing?
The argument for natural selection is that those organisms that have characteristics that make them more suited to their environments, will survive to breed more like them, over time, because the weak die out, changing the entire population. (eg. like if an early wolf developed a more acute sense of smell, to help alert him to prey and predators, then he would survive to mate, passing on this sense of smell to his offspring who would have that advantage etc.)
I think our gene pool is becoming muddied. think of it like this. Who we are now is who we will be in 2 thousand years time (forsaking devine influence ^_^). Our species is stuck! Some other geeks out there would point out that because physical survival isnt really a necessity in our western world, that our intellectual capacity will expand and we will learn how to use that other 90% of our brain.
Uh-uh. This would only happen if people who were gifted intellectually were 'the fittest' and lived to survive over their challengers. as it is, nothing will change.
Now, evolution happens when mutations occur. accidental enhancements are added to the gene pool and if they are successful, become prominant. Im not suggesting though, that we should go stand in front of the microwave so radiation mutates us (It doesnt work. Ive tried. Only got a headache) Or that we go out looking for a radioactive spider, or Otherwordly cosmic radiation, or benevolent aliens (working on those ones).
So no mutations. But Then i really got down a weird train of thought (oh yes! the rabbit hole goes even deeper!) What if someone were to regulate sex and breeding. People could still get married and have sex, but only allocated people could have children, children who would be more equipped in certain areas.. in physical strength endurance, etc or intellectual powers enhanced etc. That way humanity could re start the evolutionary process.
Then i followed it even more... pressing forward to the future, in a very Orson Wells type of way. In the distant future, a caste system is developed. On top of the caste are those with huge brain capacity, the leaders and thinkers, with psychic powers brought up through centuries of controlled breeding. Then on the lower rungs, you have the workers, those of huge physical strength and stamina.
But as things usually do in these situations something would go wrong, there would be an uprising from the lower classes, the more powerful would resent being the workers etc etc. it all ends badly!
Then i decided to note these ideas down somewhere for a novel. ^_^
hmm.. that was what was on my mind this lunch time! weird hey! maybe youre thinking now that you were glad I hadn't posted in a while! ^_^ sorry about the weirdness, but i thought it was interesting!
Until the next post, or until i post on your blogs next or see you in real life! ^_^
I remain
SAM
or DO i?
Yay! and there was much rejoicing! ^_^ pushed out of hiding finally, here I am again! mothers lock up your daughters! ^_^ or dont. probably no threat either way! but once again on with the show
So long since last post, how to recap. Ok, really quick. Still Car-less, insurance payed out so looking around. Christmas was good (had to work 3 hours on Chrissy day) Got the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD as well as the traditional Socks and Jocks! )although I do admit i needed new socks!). Didnt end up eating too much after all! so yay for not getting fat! That week, Nicole left for Manchester, good luck to her for her new job! New Years, had to work the open (get up at 5:30 shift) at Civic Video on new Years day, so it was a very small one. I ushered in the New Year at a friend's place, half asleep, watching the Italian Job ^_^
Since then Its been music music music. and by that i mean music Summer School. Its a condensed Uni thing over 2 weeks (Jan 2-14) 8:30-4:30 each day. we start with Aural Musicianship, then go to Methodology and Materials then in the afternoon finish with Choir and finally conducting. its harsh. especially once ive now come down with a virus that makes me cough constantly and makes me unable to tell what pitch im currently singing! :P
And that brings us up do date. Other than the above stuff, nothing much new. Christmas Choir, which i conducted this year went well at the Christmas eve services, so im happy about that one!
So on to the main event!
Now, As I was eating my lunch today - a tuna and greek yoghurt sandwich - i got thinking. you know they say tuna is brain food. Anyhoo.
I got thinking about how Humanity as a species has stopped evolving. Natural selection doesnt happen anymore, and nearly everyone gets married, mixing whatever genes with whatever genes. the strong and the weak survive, this got me thinking. Is this a good thing?
The argument for natural selection is that those organisms that have characteristics that make them more suited to their environments, will survive to breed more like them, over time, because the weak die out, changing the entire population. (eg. like if an early wolf developed a more acute sense of smell, to help alert him to prey and predators, then he would survive to mate, passing on this sense of smell to his offspring who would have that advantage etc.)
I think our gene pool is becoming muddied. think of it like this. Who we are now is who we will be in 2 thousand years time (forsaking devine influence ^_^). Our species is stuck! Some other geeks out there would point out that because physical survival isnt really a necessity in our western world, that our intellectual capacity will expand and we will learn how to use that other 90% of our brain.
Uh-uh. This would only happen if people who were gifted intellectually were 'the fittest' and lived to survive over their challengers. as it is, nothing will change.
Now, evolution happens when mutations occur. accidental enhancements are added to the gene pool and if they are successful, become prominant. Im not suggesting though, that we should go stand in front of the microwave so radiation mutates us (It doesnt work. Ive tried. Only got a headache) Or that we go out looking for a radioactive spider, or Otherwordly cosmic radiation, or benevolent aliens (working on those ones).
So no mutations. But Then i really got down a weird train of thought (oh yes! the rabbit hole goes even deeper!) What if someone were to regulate sex and breeding. People could still get married and have sex, but only allocated people could have children, children who would be more equipped in certain areas.. in physical strength endurance, etc or intellectual powers enhanced etc. That way humanity could re start the evolutionary process.
Then i followed it even more... pressing forward to the future, in a very Orson Wells type of way. In the distant future, a caste system is developed. On top of the caste are those with huge brain capacity, the leaders and thinkers, with psychic powers brought up through centuries of controlled breeding. Then on the lower rungs, you have the workers, those of huge physical strength and stamina.
But as things usually do in these situations something would go wrong, there would be an uprising from the lower classes, the more powerful would resent being the workers etc etc. it all ends badly!
Then i decided to note these ideas down somewhere for a novel. ^_^
hmm.. that was what was on my mind this lunch time! weird hey! maybe youre thinking now that you were glad I hadn't posted in a while! ^_^ sorry about the weirdness, but i thought it was interesting!
Until the next post, or until i post on your blogs next or see you in real life! ^_^
I remain
SAM
or DO i?
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