Survival of the Fittest

Ceaselessly we vehemently reject solutions to endemic ills...

Blindly we obdurately repudiate unity in the face of relentless discord...

What if...?

Survival of the Fittest

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What if the fate of the world - rest in our embrace of solutions?

What if the fate of the human race - rest in our embrace of unity?

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Would you choose endemic ills over the fate of the world?

Would you choose relentless discord over the fate of the human race?

Would you reject solutions - ?

Would you repudiate unity - ?

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Long live - the survival of the fittest!

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What if the fate of the world - rest in judgment?

What if the fate of the human race - rest in jury?

What if our fate - rest in execution?

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Would - such judgment, such jury, such execution - matter?

Or would - such judgment, such jury, such execution - be irrelevant -

Amidst the insistent cacophony of self interest?

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Long live - the survival of the fittest!

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What if - embracing solutions - or not -

What if - embracing unity - or not -

Was a test?

Of the world?

Of the human race?

Of us?

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What if - embracing endemic ills -

What if - embracing relentless discord -

Was evidence -

Was proof -

Was certainty -

That the world -

That the human race -

That we -

Failed?

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Long live - the survival of the fittest!

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Moreover -

What if - 

The world, the human race, we -

Had been tested before?

Moreover -

What if -

This -

Was the world's last chance -

Was the human race's last chance -

Was our last chance -

To reject endemic ills -

To repudiate relentless discord?

What if -

This -

Was the world's last chance -

Was the human race's last chance -

Was our last chance -

To embrace solutions -

To embrace unity?

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What if -

The last chance - to live, to be, to exist, to survive -

Had been conferred - 

On one condition - one last time:

That we be better?

That we live virtuously?

That we exemplify honor and integrity?

That we eschew petty grievances that inflame endemic ills? That we disavow superficial differences that scaffold relentless discord?

That we effect solutions that actuate peace? That we cultivate unity that perpetuate harmony?

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Long live - the survival of the fittest!

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If you sat in judgment of the world -

If you sat in jury of the human race -

If you sat in execution of us -

What fate - would you deem - just -

for the world?

for the human race?

for us?

After all the evidence -

After all the arguments -

After every defense -

After every excuse -

What fate - would you deem - just -

for the world?

for the human race?

for us?

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What if -

This isn't fiction?

The whimsy of an over active imagination?

The fascinations of an idealist?

The curiosities of an insane dreamer?

Much less the meaningless and worthless word of -

The hypocrite?

The deceiver?

The false prophet?

What if -

This is a gift?

Do you take it - for what it is?

Or - do you toss it aside - in favor of enticing cacophonies of self interest?

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More

If you are right - or you are wrong -

Is the risk - if I am right - worth it?

In the end - if I am right - or I am wrong -

Is not the question - what if - still valid?

Alas -

If this era is the era of -

The World on Trial -

The Human Race on Trial -

Us - all together - on Trial -

Far too many of us - are far too content pointing fingers and shifting blame - vis a vis incoherent tautological morasses of extrinsic factors to blame and intrinsic factors to blame, ad nauseum - hoarding self interest above interests of all for all - demanding unearned entitlements and advantages on the basis of 'species', 'nation', 'race', 'sex', 'class', 'religion', 'sexual orientation', ad infinitum -

To be accountable for and responsible for -

The fate of the world -

The fate of the human race -

The fate of us - all together -

Even as - every choice - of pointing fingers and shifting blame -

Every choice - of evading liability in favor of extrinsic factors and intrinsic factors -

Every choice - of hoarding self interest -

Every choice - of demanding privileges per isms -

Is ours -

That we and we alone - are accountable for -

That we and we alone - are responsible for -

Such is true justice -

That true justice - does not revoke accountability and responsibility - per virtue of extenuating circumstances, mitigating factors, special considerations, 'facts' of conditions and attributions -

Extenuating circumstances, mitigating factors, special considerations, 'facts' of conditions and attributions - do not nullify accountability and responsibility -

Per all that we are responsible for -

Per all that we are accountable for -

As the world -

As the human race -

As us - all together -

Such is true execution of true justice -

True execution of true justice - spares no one - that fate of all.

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Are you prepared -

To meet -

Gods and goddesses of ever and anon - today?

Titans - today?

Q - today?

Et alia - today?

Are you prepared -

To meet -

Gods and goddesses of ever and anon and Titans and Q and (et) alia - as -

the judges, the juries, the executioners of true justice - for -

the world, the human race, us all together?

Or - are you sure -

Or - are you certain -

On facts -

On faith -

That that is the whimsy of an over active imagination?

The fascinations of an idealist?

The curiosities of an insane dreamer?

The meaningless and worthless word of -

The hypocrite?

The deceiver?

The false prophet?

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Is life worth so little -

Is self interest worth so much -

That 'melanin' and nations of actual and fantasized ancestry matter more than unity?

That names that engage assumptions per 'species', 'nation', 'race', 'sex', 'religion', 'language', 'marital status', etc. matter more than unity?

That boxes for 'data' collection per categories of determinism matter more than unity?

That money as 'reparation' matter more than unity?

That vengeance as disenfranchisement matter more than unity?

That rationalizations of intolerance per 'religion', 'science', 'faith', 'fact' matter more than unity?

The world is the world.

The human race is the human race.

We are us all together.

Every one of us is one of all of us, all together.

Isn't it time -

We stopped defending - 'It's not my fault'?

We stopped legitimizing - 'It's this fault', It's that fault'?

We stopped sanctifying - cradling victims and hanging villains?

Isn't it time -

We reversed our descent into the trenches of devolution?

Isn't it time -

We progressed forward and embraced solutions and unity?

If now isn't the time -

What if -

Tomorrow is too late?

- M.