Pudfark wrote:
Law of Nature: "Survival of the fittest"...go ahead argue it...all you want...grave yards is full of them that argued it and it didn't change nothing for them.....
you know, I've pondered responding to this one since you wrote it. I figure folks will get all indignant with this response, but it has to be said, and I hope folks take it as coming from someone who sympathizes.....
I've heard 'Survival of the Fittest' or 'Darwinism at Work' arguments damn near my whole life. Most of those times, it was in conversations about some of the same stuff I've been discussing here. But, instead of hearing it in a forum, from a (presumed) working guy, I tend to hear it from umpteenth generation landed gentry in such Darwinian hotspots as the Clubhouse at Saratoga, '21' in New York, Galatoire's in New Orleans,
at Yacht Clubs, Country Clubs and Polo Matches. It is the excuse a lot of rich folks use to be able to live with the fact that hardworking folks get the short end of life's stick and they(the old money) benefit in ways most people never see. Why is this? It's because the same people have been making the rules for the past couple hundred years. And they feel they deserve the breaks, because by the mere nature of their heritage and birthright, they are superior. In another time, this was called 'noblesse oblige' and 'the Divine Right of Kings'. These same folks salve their souls by giving, often quite generously, to charities of their choosing, without giving any consideration to a disappearing middle class, and loss of the principles upon which the US was founded. I tend to argue with them, as it strikes me as similar to the arguments used in the French Court, about 2 or 3 decades prior to the courtiers losing their heads.
Thus, to hear Pudfark use 'Survival of the Fittest' as his mantra, my first response was to laugh at him. Then, I realized how profoundly, pathetically sad it was...........
