August 10, 2019
Humankind has approximately fifty percent fewer problems than Mankind.
If we look honestly at what we would want changed in the world, most of it stems from the behavior of homo-so-called-sapiens and, looking even more honestly, to the behavior of the male of the species.
The male of the species is on average larger and more aggressive than the female of the species. This was a tremendous advantage in the days of rocks and sticks. Less so in the age of killer drones and nukes deliverable by Amazon. But it’s behind the power imbalance between the male and female. The latter appears from recent research to perhaps be the smarter of the two, but has less power. The male, better at lifting heavy objects and winning domestic disputes, hogs what it can. Its favorite group activity is called war and it spends its time planning the next one.
While rare counter examples can be found, the female of the species appears more interested in making the world a better place in which to live. To this end, it prefers planning weddings to planning wars. Therefore, in a rational country, presence of a dick and balls would be immediately disqualifying for the holding of high public office.
News headlines might then read “A State of Wedding Has Been Declared Between the United States and the Peoples Democratic Republic of You Name It.”
It is probable that many of the marriages, hastily arranged, would not work out. But the party planning, the music, the dancing, the free food and drink would be fabulous. And the product – babies – are widely seen as preferable to corpses. Even though the male of the species likes to confuse the two, sex and violence are not the same thing, or even in the same category of thing. The former is pro-life, the latter is anti-life. Further, even though a bad marriage may be bad, it beats choking on mustard gas while flagging down machine gun bullets far from home. Does it not, guys?
MOE
M.I.C.H. – Modernity, Intelligence, Complexity, Humanity