Scooter Clover

We are seeing the results of animal husbandry applied to humans.
Selective breeding, and repeated generational conditioning/training –> DOMESTICATION.

The people doing this, for profit, are the real “1 %ers”. By making a society best suited for idiots, you’ve created a selective pressure for idiocy (especially low IQ) to be a POSITIVE trait.
You can’t figure out the directions*, but you don’t care because you’re so dumb it’s irrelevant: whatever you assemble is “good enough.”

*: I’ll assume the directions are actually clear, written by someone who speaks English as a native. Not like the directions from China usually are…

Darwin’s Law was not an ACTIVE thing, but a PASSIVE observation: species which are better adapted to an environment, reproduce better, faster, than those who are less well adapted; same inside a species, those traits which are favorable to survival produce a better chance of surviving, and therefore passing on your genes.
Over time, the better traits come to dominate the species, becoming even a new species sometimes.

So, there’s a show called “Shameless.” The woman LOVES it (I’m repulsed). I explained to her, this is how the 1% see US – EVERYONE who is “NOT THEM.” As pigs, rutting in the muck, surviving in whatever way we can, not worthy of respect and barely resembling human beings.
For comparison, there is a not-so-different viewpoint here:

[…]

This village was very poor. The huts were made of mud and there was no electricity or running water. The streets were unpaved dirt and the whole village smelled. Flies abounded. The men looked surly and wore dirty clothes. The women covered their faces, and the children had runny noses and were dressed in rags.

It wasn’t long before one American in the truck said, “This place stinks.” Another said, “These people live just like animals.” A third said, “They just don’t value life the same as we do.” Finally, a young air force man said, “Yeah, they got nothin’ to live for; they may as well be dead.”
What could you say? It seemed true enough.

But just then, an old sergeant in the truck spoke up. He was the quiet type who never said much. In fact, except for his uniform, he kind of reminded you of one of the tough men in the village. He looked at the young airman and said, “You think they got nothin’ to live for, do you? Well, if you are so sure, why don’t you just take my knife, jump down off the back of this truck, and go try to kill one of them?”

There was dead silence in the truck.

Humphrey was amazed. It was the first time that anyone had said anything that had actually silenced the negative talk about these local people. The sergeant went on to say, “I don’t know either why they value their lives so much. Maybe it’s those snotty nosed kids, or the women in the pantaloons. But whatever it is, they care about their lives and the lives of their loved ones, same as we Americans do. And if we don’t stop talking bad about them, they will kick us out of this country!”

Humphrey asked him what we Americans, with all our wealth, could do to prove our belief in the peasants’ equality despite their destitution? The Tennessee sergeant answered easily, “You got to be able to look them in the face and let them know, just with your eyes, that you know they are men who hurt like we do, and hope like we do, and want for their kids just like we all do. It is that way or we lose.”

http://www.lifevalues.com/hunting.htm
http://www.lifevalues.com/ – for the root. This story is only part fo what’s required to actually treat people with dignity – but it’s an incomplete approach, like the NAP. What do you do, if as an adherent of the NAP, a Maori tribe decides you’re a good meal? You can defend yourself against one tribesman, maybe even two – but even one in ambush gets to be tough to deal with.
You need instead to be aggressive towards the Maori tribe IFF they are uncivilized. Pre-emptive.
This does not mean they are less than human, but rather that they are dangerous. It’s not their clothes, their children, the smell of their cooking, the noise of their parties, their manner of dress. It’s that they’ve shown they wish to eat you, and as a group, that makes them dangerous. You don’t wait for each one to attack you, give each one a chance personally; you adress the group, find out what is wrong, right, or needs to be discussed, as one group to another. No different from the hunting expedition above, out to hire guides in that village. I’m certain there would’ve been much more fallout had the soldiers continued to mouth off, and idly threaten the villagers…. As the cops tend to do, JUST BEING THERE, in our society.
If cops didn’t treat us as “the enemy,” looking around like frightened rabbits while weilding the force of a pack of hyenas… Would we care much? Would we respect them more if we knew they’d focus on people who were truly dangerous, rather than the scofflaw who sells cigarettes without taxes, horror of horrors? Or the man who declines to show ID when not even under suspicion of a crime? Or runs when some unknown assailant pops out with a gun (and then shoots the runner in the back)? OR that WE can be charged with a crime, when the COP fires carelessly and hits bystanders?
That attitude is the same as the soldiers in Humphrey’s article.
It is near impossible to maintain any tolerance for such brutes and bullies, knowing what we do of human nature.
It’s like trying to pet a coral snake: foolish under the BEST of circumstances, fatal most times… Those bright colors are there for a reason. Like the gun, taser, nightstick, bullet-proof vest, handcuffs, and sometimes riot shields, gas masks, grenade launchers, full-auto rifles, sniper rifles, special optics (lowlight or infared), etc, etc, etc.

It is hard NOT to return the contempt. If we were in a civilized society, we could negotiate with these officers to get a reasonable parity in place. We could return to the basics of the social contract.
Instead, we have a cannibalistic tribe inserted into our society, advertising their contempt for us, and our way of life, and our desires to be left alone – and able to force themselves on us at whim.

The surprising thing is that there’ve been SO FEW pigs killed – so MANY people are SO tolerant.
Docile, even.
Domesticated populace….

Pathetic! Filthy! Humans!
(And so, we sort of come full circle, dad has a bad day, yells at mom; mom yells at the kid; the kid goes and kicks the dog….)
{sigh}

BEst to review such stories to remind ourselves we MUST maintain the highest levels of humanity, as often as possible.
But be ready also to strip off the facades of civilization and shred those who oppose civil discourse…

I’m open to ideas on how to better balance it, without going over to being a pushover (I can avoid being a monster on my own.)