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Baba Brinkman
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"Sure, I could get up at dawn, go to a job I hate that does not inspire me creatively whatsoever, or I could get up at noon and learn how to play the sitar" Bill Hicks
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Survival of the fittest is such a bleak vision
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Are we really just a freakish collision of selfish genes
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Selfishly promoting their own individual interests?
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Well, maybe, but sometimes those interests are collective
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Still, "survival of the fittest" is a phrase easily twisted
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By anybody out to justify the meager existence
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That some people live with; it's a phrase often enlisted
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By parasites eager to benefit from these differences
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In the nineteenth century it was aristocratic eugenicists
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In the twentieth century, genocidal menaces
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Used "survival of the fittest" to justify their death sentences
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And gangsters still use it today to degrade their victims
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Not to mention the purveyors of disaster capitalism
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These are all examples of "Social Darwinism"
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But none of this is based on scientific evidence
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Merely showing that something exists in a state of nature
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Doesn't give it a moral basis; that's a false correlation
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Competition can sometimes increase motivation
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But evolution is also driven by cooperation
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Just ask the dictyostelium nation
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Bacteria combined into eukaryotic cells
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And became the organelles within their symbiotic shells
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And we have fifty trillion of those in our individual selves
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So we're like physical spaces where creative collectives dwell
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And this applies to the societies we erect as well
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"˜Cause survival of the fittest also applies to groups
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And the fittest group makes the best combined moves
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So, can't we all just get along, whatever we try and do?
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Where's the altruism? Where's the love? Where's the altruism?
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All these vultures talkin' "˜bout survival of the fittest
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But the atruism y'all, come on, where's the altruism?
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We need to get together on a common vision!
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Group selection just puts me in an altruistic mood
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Like: Yeah, love thy neighbour! What's that?
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You need some sugar? Okay, come by later!
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Of course I'll do you favour; why's that?
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"˜Cause I've got the compassion of a vampire bat
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If you need some food, I'll do what I can
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So what if we're not related; you're still my man
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You're still my sister; I feel high, man!
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This universal love is good stuff, god damn!
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And you don't have to reciprocate either
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Because karma is a sophisticated teacher
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Karma isn't just energy waves in the ether!
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No, karma's in the way everyone hates a cheater
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Cheater detection will keep you in check when
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You jump cues and refuse to treat people respectfully
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So go ahead, take what you want, run me down
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"˜Cause I believe what goes around comes around
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Liars and thieves and those who try to deceive
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Get dealt with by the immune systems of society
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And survival of the fittest? Don't let it baffle you
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Because fitness isn't "fitness", no, it's aptitude
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Between the environment and whatever's adapted to it
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And in social animals like humans, aptitude is attitude
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And my attitude is there's nothing we can't do
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As a human family group, as long as we have rules
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To keep the cheaters in check; I figure we can't lose
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We can go to the moon and back this afternoon
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As long as what's bad for me is also bad for you
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So let's just all get together and have some food
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And put an end to this endless feud "“ is that cool?
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Where's the altruism? Where's the love? Where's the altruism?
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All these vultures talkin' "˜bout survival of the fittest
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But the atruism y'all, come on, where's the altruism?
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We need to get together on a common vision!
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