Bear with me.
The process of evolution is driven by two genetic mechanisms: combination and mutation.
The combination of genetic material produces offspring with a mixture of the attributes of
its parents. In the best case, this results in a child that is superior to each of its parents.
But combination essentially reduces the amount of genetic information each generation, as
genes which aren't passed on disappear completely from the gene pool.
Without mutation, there would ultimately be complete homogeneity. We're taught by horror films
that mutation is a bad thing, but it is actually the intuitive leap that results in new genetic
information, in new solutions, new innovations.
Human society is also subject to evolution. It is a more transient process happening
over the top of and parallel to our biological evolution, and revolution
is a societal analogue of mutation. The contemporary political divisions of left and right wing,
and the whole apple pie democratic process have been stagnating as the merging of ideas and
centrifying of ideologies has reduced the variety of political thinking.
People often make the mistake of thinking that revolutions belong to history, and they believe that
the implementation of democracy encapsulates all the political scope needed to provide freedom
and liberty forever. Neither of which is true. America's capitalistic interpretation
of democracy has turned into an insidious and oppressive totalitarianism. Freedom of speech,
free elections, free press. These are the sorts of things that are supposed to allow the free
people of free countries to participate in their government - for the people and of the people.
But the land of the free is more like the home of the slave. As their vainglorious leader sets out
to impose his campaign-bankrollers' definition of freedom on the people of another nation - it is
the people of America who are in the most dire need to be released from a dangerous and
destructive dictatorship - albeit lavishly disguised as a free democracy.
What of Bush's failure to get elected in the first place? Did the reports into his un-election ever
get published? It was the wrong time to stir up uncertainty in the nation's leadership when it
needed unity to invent a war with Afghanistan in response to the Biggest Justification of All Time.
But the inquisition continues, and so does the masquerade. Accountability is sidestepped with
calls for patriotism. Bush drags the country into recession and war, and anyone who thinks these
are bad places to be going is labelled a traitor.
Why hasn't this illegitimately elected,
badly performed and aggressively imperialistic regime been toppled by popular pressure? For the exact
same reasons that Saddam is still in power in Iraq: fear and apathy - both carefully manipulated
by campaigns of deceit.
Meanwhile,
on the other side of the Atlantic, Britain still has a royal family! The sidekick to the bastion of
freedom and liberty still maintains an archaic monarchy, with lords and ladys and so much
birth-right nonsense. Yes the public of Great Britain like the Royals - but they also like Coronation
Street. The real reason that Britain still has a royal family is that there's endless money
to be made from selling "news" about them.
The thing is, people suit dictatorships better than they suit democracies. Apathy is such a key
aspect of the human condition that when our involvement in controlling our countries has been
progressively simplified to the extent that all we need to do is show up at a polling booth once
every three or four years... we can't even be bothered to do that. Laziness will devolve any
fundamentally democratic political system into dictatorship. Communism suffered the exact same
fate that Democracy/Capitalism is now facing.
The Dollar is falling under its own weight, and the empire that surrounds it is staggering - an
empire that is fundamentally dependant on one diminishing natural resource that exists largely
outside of that empire's control. When the oil runs out, this whole thing comes crashing down
anyway, but if we allow things to continue unchecked, millions of people will die in the
meantime, fighting vainly for their lives - for and against a machine that cares only for oil.
Incidentally, to carry out the evolution analogy to it's conclusion:
The third of the main mechanisms driving evolution is the extinction event. This totally shakes
the dice. It wipes out entire species, entire familes or orders. At various scales,
at various stages in the history of the planet there have been these extinction events which have
often coincidided with climate changes, and have thrown the food chain into disarray. We have
only been around for a fraction of the time which has passed since the most recent major extinction event -
the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, 26 million years ago. So then again, in the interests of the
future of evolution on Earth, perhaps it's best that Bush push that big red button and finish
this failed homo sapiens experiment.
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