The Durian Witches.

Welcome to the moment of truth, the thirst, that is, the drink.

There are a lot of unstirty judgments

laymen have come to about science and medicine.

It seems the more we probe and discover about the universe,

the more fodder amateurs have to build mistaken beliefs on,

and the more we probe mistaken beliefs,

the more certain we become that what we call the nature of reality reflects not aspects

of the universe so much as our prejudices. Prejudices about social stratification and the way

society ought to be. Being a layman myself and an especially dilettantish

layman to boot, I exhibit these prejudices as much as, if not more than anyone. There's an

efficiency model of evolution where a Darwinist mechanism weeds out losers within a generation or two rapidly leaving a species better adapted to be its best self without being weighed down by feeble kin.

This model pairs nicely with an Uber capitalist view of winner-takes-all losers weepers.

It also feeds the neo-Nazis and other eugenics enthusiasts Nietzschean argument

that the weak masses of humanity have polluted our species. They have manipulated collective

morality, fooling the strong into wasting time and resources taking care of them, whereas

in some putative state of nature, they would have been left to die

for the good of posterity. That state of nature exists in some parallel universe, where humans

are not communal animals with an innate impulse to care for each other. It's a fantasy, where humans

are lonely gatherers competing in an austere landscape for limited resources.

Research lately indicates that beings caring for less self-sufficient members of their own species is a rule rather than an exception.

Trees in a forest sense each other's needs through a mycological nerve network and respond to the distress of others by redirecting nutrient resources and water their way.

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