We're All Gonna Die Someday Lord, We're All Gonna Die Someday
Culling the Herd The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. I I look at disease as nature's way of culling the herd. Bad genetics, of which I have no dearth, tend to help sort things out. I saw yesterday that due to environmental contamination, caused by human activity, fertility rates are crashing, another genetic culling. This isn't social darwinism, but actual natural selection (aided by our hubris and inability to stop destroying the place we live) doing its work. Of course, poor people and therefore, generally, non-white people in the West suffer the most--since race and economics closely track. That isn't Darwinism at work, but racism, by the way. Any other answer is unsatisfactory as an explanation, and likely contains bedded racist assumptions. Enough about that. The more we try to architect around it, the more ways nature shows it's inescapability, underscores our hubris. We build vaccines and embrace the germ theory of disease, and the worl...