Side tracking a topic is an art form...

So it's finally October eh?...
Seems whoever thought "fall" would make a nice name for a season, was the same person who thought "rain" was the right type of weather for a day out.

But here we are never the less. It's cold, it's miserable, it's windy and it's raining... It's always raining...
It's kind of like that mandatory group of 14-year-old boys/girls at the back of any bus. Always talking. Never actually saying anything. But always talking.
I wonder where they come from... And who decided that letting them out, amongst other people, would actually be a good idea.

But I guess that's how ideas work? I mean, let's face it... There are a lot of things where you think "well, yeah, that's a great idea!"... Untill you actually go and do it. Like putting yourself in a shopping cart and going down a slide. Or buying that 2.5L Coca Cola mug you saw in the cinema, because it'll look good standing next to your newest impulse buy, the X-Box 360, with additional cordless controller and dead rising game¹...
It all seemed like a good idea at the time.

But then, so did building the Berlin wall, electing Bush, and founding France... Ok granted, maybe not France, but still...
I honestly think it's part of how we all work. Or try not to. We seem specifically built to deliberately do the things and ask the questions, we know without a doubt will inevidably backfire and hurt us.
Then, when it does exactly what we all knew it would do, we act surprised, swear never to do it again, obviously do, and call it maturing.

It's the same principal with human evolution. Or lack thereof...
We strive to be the fastest, fittest and best there are. So we may prosper, spread and controll... Yet all we ever seem to do is invent new ways to kill each other, belittle our ideas, and generally try to hold everyone else back in case, God forbid, they actually advance further than us, and suddenly show us how wrong we were all along.

Like the whole "The earth is flat, because I bloody well say it is, and besides, my sword is bigger than yours" mentality.
If the human race truly did "evolve", as is popularly theorized, then one would obviously assume we would outgrow such useless and generally counterproductive tendencies, as penis envy. Yet here we go, hapilly ignoring the fact that we're obviously wrong, and let everyone believe that you can indeed fall off the edge of the world, simply because someone we don't like, thought of it before we did.

A parallel line of thought might be to question weather it really is men who truly have run society as top decision makers throughout the course of history. Or so it could, but let's face it, we all know the answer.
Males don't actually dominate society. Penises do. Unfortunately, we haven't yet evolved our anatomy to actively support both heads with enough blood to properly function yet, so the outcome often leaves a lot to be desired.
This also explains why some of the biggest events in history, seem to have been so poorly thought through, if indeed any thought was given to them at all.

Such wonderful ideas as "Hey! Let's invade Poland!", "Reckon it would be a laugh to trick people into believing, some old guy on a cloud is watching their every move?" and "Surely no one would mind if we just took the oil in that country? I mean, it's not like they're using it..." are all great examples of situations, where someone should have probably said "Uhm... But why?".
The thing is, men aren't evil as such. They just shouldn't be allowed to make decisions that affect other men, if women are also present.
If men are alone, the blood flow is normal and controlled... It's when females come into view of one or more males, that they become competitive, and the priority of heads change... This is generally considered a bad trait for any species that sees itself as the dominating life form on any given planet.
It also says a remarkable lot about any species that's beneath it.

Inevidably though, we choose to ignore this seemingly obvious flaw. This is one thing we've indeed become very skilled at, due to this so-called evolution thing. We seem to have fully mastered the art of ignoring anything, that might confirm that we just fucked up.
Again, a trait many would call a flaw in any dominant species. But then, I guess it really does say a lot about a species that refuses to learn from it's mistakes, yet still keeps going, despite what we throw at ourselves.

I think the real problem is not that we as a species are flawed. I think it's just natures way of balancing things out. Since we have no competition, we simply create our own obstacles. Not to make us stronger, or smarter, or so that we may learn from our mistakes and thus prosper. But simply because the alternative is sitting there, staring at the wallpaper, doing nothing...
Anyone who's ever experienced a sunday, without a girl or boy friend, will know that this is indeed all you can do on this God forsaken day.
And after experiencing a few of these lovely days, where everything is closed and none of your mates are in, you really do become rather desperate for something to do.
Breaking something, just to create some activity suddenly seems like a pretty good idea.
Now imagine a country being bored?

All this, just becuase you're single.
I guess it's an implimented survival mechanism to go get a girl/boy friend. You know, for the good of the human race, sort of thing...
Maybe we did evolve some usefull traits after all?


Cheers!
- The Bedlamite


¹ Which might go to explain why I never have any money