Darwin's Endless Forms?

Found an interesting web site on the radio. It stems from an exhibition of the life surrounding Charles Darwin and especially as depicted in the Arts.

Speaking about Darwin I would like to speculate some more on the so called "systems". Because they replace families, i.e., ties to the system has priority over family ties, and therefore makes integration difficult. However, perhaps more importantly they make evolution as usual impossible. Evolution continues in Endless Forms and this poses a problem if you all of a sudden find it impossible to talk to your parents or children.

I would assume that people in a system would try to organize themselves in new family units where they are not genetically related based on how people succeed. Some kind of breeding system or optimization of de facto relations? If you are lucky you become someone's son or daughter. Perhaps a spouse. If you are more unfortunate, you might become their dog or cat. Or as I suggested yesterday, you might not make it into a system at all and end up in the "utanförskap".

This might be all and well as long as a system does not arrange with Human Destruction Inc to rid themselves of a person? Because then all of a sudden all people just play games. Nasty games.

David Rennie, or Charlemagne, discusses another problem of the system world today in his latest column. It is the difference between the US and UK relative EU regarding inheritances. In the EU the law, if you remember that obsolete thing, says that children inherits their parents whereas in the US and UK it is completely up to the person writing the will to decide. The parallel world of the systems therefore works much better in the latter setting.

He actually brings up Warren Buffett, the richest man of the world, who wants to give most of his money to charity because he thinks the US should be meritocratic. I must say I like that idea.