Evolutionary Follies
On a completely unrelated subject: I don't do much of that TV-watching, but somehow this show "Combat Missions" ended up on my television. I've started half-paying attention to it and it may be one of the funnier things I've seen. The new Simpsons was also good.
Speaking of things combative...I'm all for special forces and SEALs and the like. These are people with astounding physical and mental capabilities. Whether or not you 'agree with' whatever actions our government takes and whatnot, they have done more for you than you ever will for them. That being said, I always have a little chuckle to myself when I hear the term "genetic elite" used to describe them (heard it today, actually). Wouldn't a genetically superior being have enough of a self-preservation instinct to not volunteer (and work incredibly hard for the opportunity) to be inserted between every life-threatening rock and hard place that arises from geopolitical insanity? While some elite physical specimen with a 150 IQ meets his untimely end overseas, I'm in Southern California spreading around my shit DNA with reckless abandon.
Well, not really reckless abandon any more, or even cautious abandon...but I don't want to ruin my shtick with my new and exciting adventures in monogamy (another evolutionarily disadvantageous behavior, but I digress...)
