"In this context, mass shootings, fascism, kids who can't hold down jobs walking around with vape pipes in their mouths and earbuds in their ears, etc. are all evidence that evolution is searching for a _new_ solution to the new problem."
The auto-immune analogy would seem say that the government was off the rails and destroying good tissue. Perhaps this is just more like an infection and the news media all over the mass shootings, for example, is like antibodies tagging an antigen. I said programmed cell death because I was thinking of Hodgkin lymphoma co-opting antitumoral response to prevent immune surveillance. The injection of cognitive dissonance and distraction into the media (Trump noise) seems like that kind of downregulation of a normal immune response to let cancer cells proliferate. I don't know how reproduction rates change during world wars or civil wars. One might expect that reproduction rates would go up. Evolution could be looking for a way to make them go down, and I think vape pipes have to be a part of that! Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
