Lewis Carrol, Evolution, and Taoism.

"It takes all --the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

thats a line from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Its also where the name "The Red Queen Hypotesis" comes from, an evolutionary theory stating thusly:

"for an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with."


And this is from the Tao Te Ching, chapter 2:

"...Nothing, and Heaven, Share the same root
Difficulty and ease are a part of all work.

The long and the short are in your hands,
above and below exist because they each do,
what you want and what you say should be the same.
neither future nor past can exist alone.

The Sage has no attachment to anything,
and he therefore does what is right without speaking, by simply being..."




In our evolutionary competitiveness, continuous progress is necessary in order to keep up. progress is relative. we must keep running in order to stay put.

the human-centric orientation of culturally ancient religions (eg. mohammejewchrist), could be argued to be a form of the 'evolutionary arms race' thats needed to keep us afloat in our ecological niche. evolution gave us power anxiety over other species. religion gave us the explanation, and humans enforced it with a will to beleive what probably isn't true. Mr Camus said:

"A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien. A stranger."

And instinctively nobody wants to be a stranger.

our brains are still wired like this, don't forget that our species is only 200 000 years old. Our basic desire is still control.



Yours Truly,
A Faithful Subject of Her Majesty's Whores.


thats the end.