Evolution can be forced by many means indeed.
Strawberries were never meant to be the ginormous things I get at the store from Mexico. They are huge, but only taste half as good as the incredibly small bite sized things I used to munch on with my sister in the field a couple of blocks from home. I'd pay twice the price, for a box of those punny berries from my youth.
I see breeds of dog, and I wonder to myself, how in the heck did we end up with that sort of dog?
But then again, I look at humans and wonder, how the heck did we end up with that feature?
I occasionally wonder, just about the ability to wonder. I can say I have read about how our brains have evolved in size, but, the process of thinking, now that is something else entirely different.
I am a woman, I know I am a woman. I just happen to have a male body. If I was living in the wrongest possible country though, I'd likely suppress that like anything else life threatening. As we speak, Russia is doing what it can, to beat down on the gay scene (which to me means anything not straight), and that WILL have effects if given enough time.
I often wonder, when we our species out grow a need for religious belief? It's what it is, a fear of the unknown of after death. And it's about people that prey on those that suffer from that fear. Is it stunting our development as a species? Or is it a form of brakes keeping us from going too far in the direction of science? Because I can tell you that unchecked science can be just as scary.
With genetics, and nothing to slow us down, we could just as easily be breeding people to order.
I wonder, if transgender could be selectively eliminated from the gene pool?
Everything is eventually just a part of our genetics. Big small, short tall, colour, hair, eyes, it's all stuff on a menu in our code.
I have a preference for cold rainy weather regardless of my health. Might be my Scottish ancestry. When I was in the army, my biggest worry (after the Warsaw Pact of course), was duty in a desert or jungle climate. I can't handle heat.
I often wonder why people do what they do, and it's usually just the environment that they are stuck in.
If I was born in the middle east, I likely would be Muslim and not prone to being transgender even if I was.
If I was born in China, well having been born in a male form, I'd have survived birth easier, but also would likely be single too. My genes likely would not be going far.
But I was born Canadian, and being disabled has not put my life at risk nor put me in undue hardship. And I have the ability to say my life is a lot more promising than it might be for a lot of others on this planet. I have been able to be all I really am.
Meanwhile in Japan, a nation that is very insular, and xenophobic, their birthrate is crashing full speed. Their young have lost interest, technology has made it possible to be a solo individual and exist in front of a machine and their aged population is rapidly becoming an expensive prospect as their diet allows them to live long.
I see the exceedingly rapid population growth rates of India and China heading for a very nasty wall that simply will refuse to not be a problem.
Any nation sitting on their borders, may want to keep this in mind. I am glad I am many thousands of miles away and on the other side of the largest body of water on the planet.
