Sidestepping Darwin

In Darwin's Origin of Species, the strongest survive. You ever get the feeling that our society has become so overwrought with our political correctness and sensitivity, that we're somehow overriding nature? It's as if we're trying to accommodate the lowest of the low. On a large scale, social services such as welfare gets abused by the lazy. Kids are "not allowed" to fail a grade in elementary school, as not to hurt their fragile self-esteem. On a small scale, it seems like we have warning signs for every little tiny thing. May as well have a disclaimer on paper saying "careful of edges, may cause papercuts".

Because of this, we allow the weakest to survive at the cost of the greater society. Middle and upper class have to pull up the weight of the stragglers, common sense needs to be pointed out as to make sure that even the most intellectually devoid person will not fall into some sort of accident. I was reading an interview with Clint Eastwood a few months ago, where he stated, men use to be a lot tougher. And I really have to agree to an extent, society has made the world such a cushy place. This whole notion of leave nobody behind. Maybe people need to be left behind, in this regard we are circumventing evolution. The human race is in fact getting weaker/stupider in a way by not only allowing the weak to survive, but to reproduce!

Here's an example, everybody now knows that smoking is unhealthy, we plaster HUGE warnings and spend tens of millions on commercials. Trust me, we got the message. Yet people still do it, and it's not as if the warnings didn't get to them, especially in this information driven age. I say, let them puff their fuckin lungs out. Then of course they get lung cancer or some shit that I have to pay my taxes into OHIP because they didn't "listen"? WTF is that?

Socialism/communism exists as a utopian concept, in real world practice it would never work, yet we're moving closer and closer towards this. It is always taken advantage of by corruption of the administration and by the weakest links being dragged along. It also has a way of creating a malaise amongst its working class, as performance has no bearing as to the reward.

In school, I'd do fairly well, what I didn't understand was that there were kids that would fail everything miserably, whether due to disinterest or lack of ability. I'm not saying they're useless, but this is just not their area of strength, which is fine. But what would really get me is how year after year, they get passed through. Now as an adult, things like this bug me even more. So the same people (perhaps), I now have to pay inflated taxes, not only to make sure the slackers are taken care of. My "income" is now also going to fund the education of kids who have no desire at all to be there, or even worse, to distract and take away educational value from kids who actually do? To top it all off, to pad the wallets of the politicians, to whom the best of my knowledge, are as corrupt as they come?