Evolution by Choice

Evolution by Choice. Two simple parts--evolution--growing, surpassing the former, adapting, changing, and choice--decision, action based on a specific intention, deliberate.

Part of the beauty of this meme is it's ability to function across several layers of abstraction. For instance, you could take this idea at the personal level and choose to adapt to some part of your life that has changed, or perhaps that you weren't taking full advantage of.

On the other end of the spectrum you have the entire species and the possibilities for enhancement beginning to look like real possibilities--genetic alterations, cybernetic enhancements.

Not only in the science fiction turning reality front, but the concept can be identified in more subtle roles as well--the steady homogenizing flow of information/education to the general masses. As the gestalt of human society becomes more and more saturated with the combined general knowledge of the species as a whole, people are empowered with the ability to start with knowledge somebody else has already discovered, and thus go further than before, or avoid certain pitfalls, to 'Stand on the shoulders of Giants' as it were.

Does it ever seem like people are smarter than they used to be? Maybe they've just got better mental tools to use.

The point is, we all make choices every day that affect who we are becoming as a person, and what direction our society is going, as a whole. You may not think about it like that, but perhaps you should. Every person has a little bit of power. We've all got our own ideas on what's 'good' or 'bad' or whatever labels you want to apply--things we want versus things we don't want to have happen. Anyway, in a democratic situation, everybody's putting their energy/time/resources/votes into whatever they want to see happen, and when ideas line up, there's motion--when there are equally opposed ideas/opinions, there is stalemate.

But everybody _does_ exert _some_ level of influence, whether they realize it or not. So, make your decisions like they count.

When you have a choice to make, make it with the intent of improving yourself, and your society as a whole. Make the choice to help Evolve into a better form.

-cid