We
are lead to wonder what the spotted chartreuse fox would be like if he were endowed
with human intellect? Would he be an insatiable carnivore seeking to devour? A
Heinrich Himmler with crematoria or a Don Carlione with a broadcast network of
selective predation viewing the social environment as his henhouse for chowing
down?
Humanity
is something like a fox itself. Its cleverness and manual dexterity gives it
such an advantage over other animals. Though the smell of the hunt leads men
after foxes human beings are made by their Creator in the image of God though
they try so hard to forget that fact. Rational, thinking and spiritual is the
God-like image reflected in our dual-natured selves, one that increasing tends
to prefer the rational, scientific, godless atheist side over the spiritual,
creative and thoughtful.
Soon
humanity may give itself the opportunity to bring an awakening of intelligence
to animals. Because the approval by ethics groups of the transfer of healthy
mitochondria with their own genome to women with unhealthy D.N.A. in their eggs
it might be possible to give D.N.A. from superior women with outstanding
characteristics to women with defective or less-well endowed characteristics
(fox might believe that means less than DD cup) of intelligence. Einstein’s
Mama could have been a mass mitochondria donor to talk radio host Mama’s and
the future of U.S.
Frankly
if I were guessing I would say that Democrats are descended from Bonobos and
Republicans from Chimpanzees. Humans share something like 1.7% of their genome
with both simian sects and a much higher percent with both. Supposedly the evolutionary
line of humans and the greater apes forked 5-7 million years ago. Political
alpha humans perhaps a little later. It may develop that ethical approval to
enhance animal intelligence with mitochondria transfers and genetic
modification may let thinking, reasoning animals go ahead and be remade in the
image of mankind.
The
idea of an awakening of animal intelligence isn’t exactly as silly as it seems.
First some market will be found where people want to have a conversation with
their beagle, or the military will find it cheaper to send a smart Bonobo on
Mars missions because they are shorter and stronger per body mass having
evolved without junk food. One can imagine a Siberian tiger with the intellect
of David Stockman as Director of the Congressional Office of Management and
Budget. Since this is the Anthropocene era being named so in the year 2000 for
the human effect on creating mass extinctions of animals and plants bring up
animals to human level smarts is the least we can do.
One
might wonder where the scientific atheism leads politically speaking.
Scientific development is good and informs us that loss of genetic, taxonomic
and phylogenetic diversity may crash the ecosphere. The ecosphere is something
like a house of cards that could collapse if too many cards are removed. Even
the beneficial farming green revolution has some deleterious effects because of
all the destruction of wild land and dumping of pesticides. Plainly human food
production seeks to satisfy just human hunger and doesn’t take into account the
need to conserve the ecosphere. Without proper stimulus fox won’t move. It
needs a hunger to search for a family of chickens to eat. Sated, well-fed and
in digestive torpor the lack of spiritual seeking after the perfect will of God
leads to a too-narrow intellectual pursuit of immediate material security.
Maybe humanity is doomed, maybe not.
Scientific
atheism may lead to an eclipse of democracy. John Ralston Sauls, a philosopher
who has written about corporatism as a political-economic development wrote
that “The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny
and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy”. As
the Democratic Party relies more and more on Wall Street and the Harvard network
for political appointees and wealth is concentrated Americans are trained to
look to corporations as the alternative to government. Splitting the difference
leads to encroaching corporatism. Democracy is degraded.
Obamacare is a practice of corporatism in action,
so is immigration reform that would allow 15 to 20 million Mexican citizens become
U.S. citizens. They would be super-citizens with dual passports as would be their
tens of millions of children. The political center of the United States would
in effect shift south of the border and Mexican citizens would become the de
facto electors of the U.S. government. Because Mexicans would be fairly easy
for drug cartels or global corporations to control corporatism in the U.S.A. would
tighten its grip. Americans would lose their historical battle for political
self-determination. Scientific, godless corporatism arm-in-arm with its
godless, atheist Chinese-communist peers in ruling would down-size the
population of the world morally and demographically in whatever way it selected
for it’s class, Zarathustrian super-men advantage. There has got to be a better
way.
One might keep in mind that down-sizing
corporations and keeping the ecosphere intact are good things. Stable
population size and respect for local political control at the state or at
least national;-size are good defenses against corporate or communist
imperialism. It would be possible to develop farming in closed
containers-probably spheres in space and on the moon in extremely intensive,
cleverly designed encapsulated multi-level growth areas, condense the food and
readily pack and send it to Earth it low cost or even disposable containers. It’s
important to keep the relative mass of Earth and the other large solar system
bodies intact. In other words it would be possible for spiritually responsible
people to keep a stable population, scientific development, spiritual liberty
and freedom from the worst of Fox’s raging beast seeking to devour
characteristics from running crazed through civilization
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