Pride of lions one discovers that Zebra herd one makes good eating. Meanwhile, pride two discovers through polite conversation at the water hole that Zebra herd two (Zebrus ovum inflata gas mark 4) make a simply divine soufflé, as well as being entertaining guests. After one particularly delightful dinner party, Zebra herd two are making their way home across the veldt when they are set upon by Lion pride one and they are all eaten. Lion pride two are so appalled by this awful faux pas by their own species that they never venture out in public again, and they die of embarrassment. As the much missed Kurt Vonnegut used to say, So it goes.
Now, I'm not sure exactly the point that I am trying to make. That paraplegia is actually an evolutionary advancement? No, but perhaps there's a difference in the way that we now evolve. Before our species came along, change was a fairly ruthless process, and I'm sure that there were some perfectly good mutations that just didn't survive, even though they had something to offer. By the 'old' Darwinian model, having fallen from a tree I would be Sabre Tooth Tiger food. The difference now is that we have a sense of history, the evolution of ideas, if you will. New ideas can spread very quickly, and over a wider area, to affect more individuals. I assume this is why, about two years ago, everyone started referring to the elephant in the room. A more interesting evolutionary puzzle, perhaps, is how the elephant got into the room in the first place, without someone noticing...
And here, my friends, I get to the task in hand. The opening of my blog. Oh, how I hate that word. Not quite as much as I hate 'blogosphere'. How come we didn't spend most of the eighties referring to the 'filofaxosphere', or the nineties in the 'textosphere'? Grrrr. Language, eh? Can't live with it, can't have a decent conversation without it.
I do promise to attempt to make any further entries a little more concise and interesting, but for now I leave you with this thought:
"The chicken is just the egg's way of producing another egg."
Now, I'm not sure exactly the point that I am trying to make. That paraplegia is actually an evolutionary advancement? No, but perhaps there's a difference in the way that we now evolve. Before our species came along, change was a fairly ruthless process, and I'm sure that there were some perfectly good mutations that just didn't survive, even though they had something to offer. By the 'old' Darwinian model, having fallen from a tree I would be Sabre Tooth Tiger food. The difference now is that we have a sense of history, the evolution of ideas, if you will. New ideas can spread very quickly, and over a wider area, to affect more individuals. I assume this is why, about two years ago, everyone started referring to the elephant in the room. A more interesting evolutionary puzzle, perhaps, is how the elephant got into the room in the first place, without someone noticing...
And here, my friends, I get to the task in hand. The opening of my blog. Oh, how I hate that word. Not quite as much as I hate 'blogosphere'. How come we didn't spend most of the eighties referring to the 'filofaxosphere', or the nineties in the 'textosphere'? Grrrr. Language, eh? Can't live with it, can't have a decent conversation without it.
I do promise to attempt to make any further entries a little more concise and interesting, but for now I leave you with this thought:
"The chicken is just the egg's way of producing another egg."
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