I have but one cheek

     Perhaps playing Senior Care for a living, I am hyper sensitive to "kindness".  Regretfully, I have far too many stories of lightly veiled anger, for kindness  not to be a dominant theme in my life.  Not that all of the stories recall young mistreating old.  Old often doesn't show forth as weakness, and often youth is instinctively kind. 

     In a culture which is saturated with the "The Golden Rule" moral platitude, it is perplexing as to why there is so much "I am me and you are not".  My best insight, at the moment and likely only to be held for a day or two, is that:

•      The human identity spectrum, "conservative to liberal" is a marker for the most fundamental spectrum, "survival strategies"   
•      "Free will", or mimetic, we all choose, Darwin, or Christ, which is to say, we polarize around the unknown truth about "altruism", namely is it a self thing, a kin thing. a group thing, or a cosmic thing.
•      At the conservative end of the spectrum, we prioritize self and kin, offering surplus as charity to those less fortunate.  We embrace self reliance, accountability and compassion...but,for us,  the Universe compels "survival of the fittest". Therefore, we cannot waiver on our truth, that "I am me and you are not".  
•      At the liberal end of the spectrum is the frightening insight, right or wrong, that we can't/won't survive unless everyone survives.  While we may or may not believe in "group altruism" per se, we choose inclusion in only that group that contains all groups.  Therefore, we cannot waiver on our truth that we are all "one".

      So far, as I read history, both the Darwins and the Christians are propelling the world culture in the direction of peace.  Clearly the well being of the species is ascending on average.  The median, not so much. However, with half of the people promoting "obligated without entitlement" and the other half promoting "entitled without obligation" there is going to be some slapping....on both sides!

 PS:  There is an obvious bizarreness about the colors claimed by those scattered along the "self vs one" altruism spectrum. Clearly, the Darwins are Darwins, but, being the dominant tribe, they have first claim to the Christian tag... while the Christians, clearly more aligned with Christian sensibilities, disavow the Christian tag so as to not identify as " Darwins".  As such, they have acquiesced to being tagged humanist, unitarians,  new agers, socialist, Marxist, etc.  For distinction this has probably been a good thing.  Two books with the same name is not good for either. 

CRISPR Humans

     Only a small number, but they are out there.  They are the people who have experimentally undergo DNA modifications to correct illness states.  Soon, everyone will know a "Crispr Human".  Simplistic ally speaking, it's a little like the Pfizer vaccine. The technique reads the DNA code, makes a miracle like protein called CAS9 that contains instructions to insert/delete DNA code sections, attaches it to a "messenger molecule" MRNA, wraps it in a sugur package, puts it in the bloodstream, which sends it to the liver where altered DNA molecules are made and sent to poor performing body organs where they replace the cells with better functioning cells... and walla...a kinda improved heart, lung or whatever.

Yes, there are CRISPR humans among us. Their numbers will only rise. And there will be CRISPR for blood disease, for rare disease, for neurodegeneration, cardiovascular and cancer. 

     That's my current explanation and until I understand it better...I'm sticking to it.

fundamentalism, first principal, and why?

Test

All"constructs" pass away

For an evolving species on a fragile planet, to embrace a baseline identity with the proposition, "reason is the slave of passion", made perfect sense, before global warming, fission, and covid....now, it's probably a luxury we can't fucking afford.  Regrets, war is much more exhilarating than algorithms, but...  

Big Bang 2.0

Once upon a time in the land of humans

A space endowed with both shades and lumens

There were creatures quick and slow,  big and small

Broadcasting constant, all to one, and one to all

 But they were strong polarized in their interface coding

Pure passion or pure reason, depending on their genetic loading

And so, alas, their streaming was mostly for naught

Rare was it that “integral”was taught

And so they journeyed on in a never ending gray

Perplexed as to what all the others did say

Until one day when the lumens were near last fade

Revealed was the “spirit” who both passion and reason had made

With a small gesture, “spirit” shouted world wide, in a distinctively integral tone

“Sorry, you’all, I fucked up, I’m gonna go it alone.”

And then….it happened again!