Devolution.

Mostly used in political or business stuff, I'm here going to tell you that I'm using devolution as "de-evolution". I could use "degenerate", but humans never generated; they evolved.

What I'm really concerned with lately is the devolution of humanity. We seem to be getting more instinctive, more... stupid. And it's not entirely our fault.

When I'm drawing in Flash, and I make a mistake, I simply hit ctrl + z. It never happened. When you draw on paper, it's slightly more difficult in that you have to turn the pencil upsidedown, and then carefully erase so as not to mark the picture. When you draw in stone, you don't mess up. You concentrate very carefully because one mistake ruins it all.

It is this logic that destroys us. All the mistakes we make today are so easily shrugged off due to, how interesting - evolution! Yes, you heard me... we're actually devolving by evolving. I don't mean physically, I mean technologically. We're generally done evolving as a species, so to help ourselves, naturally we have to advance. We got electricity, heating, the industrial revolution. And slowly our backs went from straight, to curved. The humanoid form isn't meant to stand 24/7, but neither is it meant to sit. We watch a movie, we sit. It's comfortable. Why should I have to stand as I type this to you? It'd be uncomfortable! You always hear the cliche, the stereotypical, "Oh, sonny, when I was your age, we had to walk to school!". And we go, "Yes, grand pa, that's nice. Now go back to eating your liquified beef dinner."

But grand pa had it right. We've got things so easily now - in this year of 2008. If I want a new game, I don't have to get my lazy ass out of my chair, get in the car, drive to the store, buy it, pay tax, drive back, install it. Nope! All I've got to do is open up steam, select the game I want, get my ass out of my chair, get my debit card, sit back down, hit some numbers, and in 10 minutes of downloading and installing with my incredible internet speed (god forbid I wait overnight), I've got my instant entertainment. And the worst part is, this is better. I can install this game whenever I need to, I don't need to take care of any discs, they don't ship discs out, it's great. I even saved money by not paying the tax, what joy.

And it is this logic that destroys us. You don't need good penmanship anymore, you can just type! And in that, you don't even need to type correctly! People have actually just gotten so stupid, they don't even realize when the grammar they're reading is bad. (and I'm talking bad bad, not confusing it's and its) (which is still embarrassing, in my opinion) You don't need to buy software, or movies, or anything anymore, you can just torrent it off the 'net! Hell, you could set up 20 different accounts on free sample websites and live off stale crackers and space food (remember space food?!?!) for the rest of your life. Why be bothered with going to the library when Wikipedia surely has everything you need?

So you can understand my concern when I realize that the Egyptians 1,000s of years ago found out that "1.68" is one of the most amazing numbers in existence, built pyramids, and in general survived in terrible conditions. While, here in 2008 America, my old highschool which we prided ourselves in as having a greater intelligence in general... now has a freshmen class that is +50% staying back. They actually need to institute a new system in order to let the kids pass. And how did we get like this? Is this really how we are just... born to be? You can't even find real dancing (or music) at school dances anymore, all they do is pseudo-sex like pathetic apes. Throw some fur on them and put them in a zoo; nothing is different, except they do have a more complex language they can barely master.

Usually at the end of my articles, I have a solution. But no, I'm sorry, I don't. As I've said repeatedly amongst all my articles, I don't submit these until I am 100% sure they are correct. So:

Though it pains me to admit it, this is the better life. We have the internet, where tons of information is, and thanks to sites like wikipedia, we can now verify that information is correct. You can speak to anyone around the world, and due to fiber optics, we'll soon be doing them at even faster speeds. Our movies are now completely digital, our music you can put anywhere, it's simply amazing. My life would be so dull without the internet. It's almost as if knowing the majesty of the 'net... frees you. How many of those 50%+ kids you think even know what HTML is? All they know is their stupid Google and MySpace. All they know is they type their bullshit into the "internet" and results come out.

I hear it so much... I love that bulletin on myspace that asks you, "Would you kill someone for $1,000,000?", and of course every worthless tool says "Yes OMG definitely! Absolutely!", not even realizing they're part of the problem. If I answered that question, I'd ask if I could kill 1,000,000 for $1, and that's because I'd like to buy a coke afterwards. But our reasons are different. They never learned to love human life - why should they? What has life really shown them? You get up every morning and go to your stupid school which trains you to be another stupid worthless person, unless you go to college, in which case you are now a tool with more of a role in that you can fit your role of being whatever you want to do when you enter your career. How are you supposed to love life when you hear it's all about sex on the radio? Did you know in Japan you can fall asleep on the sidewalk in Tokyo and no one will kill you, rape you, or steal from you? I can't go for a walk without it being in the back of my mind that someone can, for fun, jump from out a bush and blow my brains out and run away. And then you've got my reasons why I'd kill 1,000,000 and feel nothing. They're merely like animals to me, and why shouldn't they be? All I've known is what they are - yes, I was once just like them! Something happened, I don't know, maybe god blessed me, maybe I talked to the right person, maybe it was in me from the start. I've seen what humanity can be, and I see what they're doing with their humanity. It's disgraceful; but unfortunately, we all share the same humanoid form, which can be ended so easily with a gunshot to the head. So after all this, I don't blame them for their ignorance. I blame their parents, who were brought up terribly by their parents, who will never stop the cycle. And you, you reading this - can you blame me? Am I wrong to say I value humanity versus their animality they're pretending is humanity? If so, I'm sorry for you. You either love animals or hate humans too much. I love my pet cats, but I'm not going to make dinner for something that can't even thank me for the dinner. But I'm a philanthropist at heart, and damn all you misanthropists.

If you think I've gone off on a tangent, no, I've not. We are devolving to an animal form and it makes me sad. It makes me really sad that god won't do something about it, and it makes me even more sad that he might be in the form of a meteor, and kill all the nice worthy people as a big, lazier, and divine holocaust. You can do something for yourself - read. You don't need books, but they do help. You need the 'net, and pride. You think I was right all the time when I was 14 years old? Because I wasn't. It took me getting passionate enough to write an article like this, and then someone like now-me coming in and saying, "Sorry bud, that's just not how it is.". You want to get instantly smarter? Read and understand the lyrics of Unexpect's CD, "In a Flesh Aquarium". Another great choice which will finally shut this article up is William Blake's, "The Marriage". Plates 7-10 are full of the most amazing wisdom, and the latter and former have both changed my life dramatically. I said the latter will shut me up because there is a quote that I am using from it to finish the article with, and this is...

"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a baseman will avoid you." Translation: Speak your mind because it's one of the few things that cannot be taken away (unless you die, silly) (and that's debateable) and if you do so, anyone who is not ready to get off their base and fight you, will merely avoid you. How many idiots you think finish my articles without going "THIS IS BULLSHIT" and living their lives in conceit?

I'm now done with one of my longest and favorite articles. This took me over an hour which is very unlike me because I live in 2008 where things just come instantly.

Praying for a targeted cataclysm,
Vael Victus