How is the World Going to End in 2012?

[Biomiast]

Genetic recombination means that you never know who is going to be born where or in what milieu. There are sons of kings who were unfit to even be garbage collectors, and children of farmers who could have been rocket scientists. Not always, of course, but humanity does itself a great disservice by not creating a social system that optimizes its gifts, and controls its pathologies.

This is something that hurts me deeply. Even though my parents were dysfunctional, they have given their resources and attention to me to become successful in life, but when I look at those less fortunate than us, I can't help feeling guilty that I am taking their chance to become something. I am not superior to them, I was just born in a family who was more or less aware how to raise a child and had the money. And imagine all those pathological people who are unfit to serve humanity that are in positions of power because of their families. George Bush being an example.

I feel like it is my duty to be the best I can be and fight against this unjust system to create a better future for those who didn't get the chance.

 

[SeekinTruth]

Genetic recombination means that you never know who is going to be born where or in what milieu. There are sons of kings who were unfit to even be garbage collectors, and children of farmers who could have been rocket scientists. Not always, of course, but humanity does itself a great disservice by not creating a social system that optimizes its gifts, and controls its pathologies.

This is something that hurts me deeply. Even though my parents were dysfunctional, they have given their resources and attention to me to become successful in life, but when I look at those less fortunate than us, I can't help feeling guilty that I am taking their chance to become something. I am not superior to them, I was just born in a family who was more or less aware how to raise a child and had the money. And imagine all those pathological people who are unfit to serve humanity that are in positions of power because of their families. George Bush being an example.

I feel like it is my duty to be the best I can be and fight against this unjust system to create a better future for those who didn't get the chance.

Being the best you can be will put you in the position to help all those who ask.... So continue to make efforts to be the best you can be; that's all any of us can really do. :)

 

[mcb]

Re: The last article of Laura

...Genetic recombination means that you never know who is going to be born where or in what milieu. There are sons of kings who were unfit to even be garbage collectors, and children of farmers who could have been rocket scientists. Not always, of course, but humanity does itself a great disservice by not creating a social system that optimizes its gifts, and controls its pathologies...

I agree. I just want to highlight, hopefully without being nit-picky, that "recombination" is happening on many levels, from micro to macro. And genetic recombination/sexual selection is driven by the recombination of families (gene lines) at the social level, and other "mixing" processes drive that. When I try to picture the entire scale of the process, I imagine that I am seeing the workings of a mind, trying an unimaginably vast number of different possibilities. The Divine Cosmic Mind? I don't know.

Within this process some things appear to work out while others don't, though even a "failure" is a "learning." Even if our own branch of the process were to fizzle out, and we didn't make it past the end of this year, the process continues on (though it might have loss something worth keeping).