It was UFC Fight Night with Holly Holmes and Conner McGragor fighting a couple upwards bound champs, and it turned out to be a double upset for the night. A few of us had been looking forward to it like the millions of UFC fans around the world. For me personally, I was hoping Conner got his ass handed to him, and he got it alright!! Holly pounded Tate until she put her to sleep in the last round to become the new champion!! Both girls are hot! Strong is sexy!! What a bad night for Holly. The gladiators of modern day history...men and women alike. Why are we so involved and entertained by it? Why after seeing blood all over the place, eyes closed shut from pounding, and essentially animal-like behaviors drawing our attention?! It should be obvious, we love it!! But more importantly, we're all still animals with animal-like instincts, and whether we want to own up to it or not, there is apart of who we are, and that part of being responds to the "heard mentality" and our survival instinct. Yes. It's true.
It seems like it's a thing of the past that the strongest, the people with the best gene pools, potentially most fertile people, and best worriers got to have the riches, the best looking mates, and essentially the cream of the crop. Everyone else get to divide what remains , if anything, and then except (or not) where it is they fit in the pecking order in the game of life or surviving it as it maybe. We don't like to think of life being unconsciously lived this way, but the fact of the matter is it is. Because of the way society has evolved, no one really has to strive to make it past the basics: somewhere to live, something to earn a living with, and maybe, if we're lucky, someone to share the time. Yes, we've bought into or perhaps been talked into contributing to the whole by "doing our part" and find happiness in it while all of the fruit of our life's toil really goes to a few other people that figured out something most of us haven't. The mathematician that got a noble prize for developing the model of economics based on a 'social sharing' concept is likely to blame.
He figured out that if all of the boys in a room go after the same 'desirable' girl and ignore the fact or fail to see that she has friends, only one person gets his needs met or wins the prize. Rather, he opined that if we ignored the most desirable girl and focused on all of her friends, everyone gets a proverbial piece of the pie, and the competition of the fittest goes away because everyone will have had their needs met by having nullified the lure of the most desirable. This works out fine in some economic systems, but the most desirable person or people still exist. The question is, "Where did they go?" And, "Did that animistic instinct disappear?"
The answer is simple. "No!" And, "They're everywhere we look...all those most desirable people." It's right there inside of every single one of us!! It's true, and we know it to be true by the very way we feel after we watch certain kinds of movies and tragic events like a car accident or the way most people will, for a moment, take notice of a really good looking gal or guy in a room. We eventually recognize this part of ourselves exists, but we rationalize it away and how we should go about dealing with it; we call this being apart of society and being cultured or 'not being tempted' to include the religious folks. For sure there is a need for order and civility, but what has happened? In those two categories, we begin to believe that we have to suppress the animal nature of ourselves. We need to be content with what we get. We shouldn't look over the fence and 'lust' after things that other people have, etc. etc. My question is, "Why not?" Why should we settle for what is handed to us and not desire different, better, or improved? How did all of 'those' people get to relish in the 'finer' things of life, and we get to support their enjoyment of it by how we live our lives trying to be like them! Hahahaha. This is still true...
TO BE CONTINUED....
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