tooth soup

I finished Stephen Donaldson’s Gap series last night. Fantastic story. It brings a lot of humankind’s inadequacies into light. Such as our inability to realise the state of our own demise.
Our race’s ability to self destruct comes from a survival mechanism that both enables us to function at all, while ultimately assuring us of our doom as a species. This mechanism is our ability to adapt.
Have you ever had a loved one die? Then you have been a witness to your own ability to (eventually) let go of that loved one’s memories. “Moving on” as we so inaptly name it. Though we try not to let it happen, that person’s memory fades slowly in our minds, eroded by degrading synapses and a subconscious will to let it happen.
A cynical view of the grieving process, surely. But is it not said that only time can heal the wounds of grief? And what else can time offer us except the gentle wash of memory from the shores of our sadness? Nothing. So sure in our convictions that we shall never let the mind take away our memories of the person that was a part of our lives that we do not notice the fact that it is happening with as sure a step as the march of time that enables the process.
So, going back to the earlier and more important statement, that is, that this mechanism is the instrument for our species collapse. It does not need to proven, it is already a case in point. Our species adapts quickly to changes in both our physical and mental environment, and although this enables us to exist in this new environment with ease, it prevents us from attaining knowledge gained from previous environments; previous realities. Already, we deem the old reality innacurate. The species moves on while the individual strives to keep up.

I’m going to stop dribbling this shit now. I don’t even know what the fuck I was thinking starting to write this. None of th earguments presented here really ahve any substance and I only did it because I’m bored. Thus, you may ignore all this crap without a single guilty thought.

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