Well, it was bound to happen. Somebody jumped out of a window at the Burj el Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world. Splattered like a pumpkin on a deck on the 108th floor after a 39 story fall.
Burj Khalifa
Where there is a tallest building, someone will jump from it. Where there is the tallest mountain, somebody will climb it. It’s human nature.
That’s why democracy is such a dangerous system of government. (with the famous Churchill proviso attached) In a pure democracy, the future of the human race, planet earth and anything else we might touch is determined by human nature. Schizophrenic, neurotic, bi-polar, obsessive, anal retentive, paranoid human nature.
Human nature is pushing a few of the very best humans to write great novels, paint great paintings, sing beautiful songs and invent truly miraculous inventions. But most human’s human nature is made of coarser stuff. There’s that lady in American, for instance, who is planning on becoming the world’s fattest woman. She’s already obscenely obese, like can’t leave the house obese, and she deliberately eats huge portions at every meal. Keep your eye on the prize.
There are people who compete to be the world’s worst serial killer or arsonist. It’s like some people have inherited the competitive gene without any of the ethical ones. Everybody’s pulling in a different direction, to be the most extreme of whatever they are, and it makes progress difficult, it makes order problematic.
I’m still for democracy, and trust that good ideas will win out in the end because they are good ideas, even if there are a lot of roadblocks on the way. But, damn, people are a mixed bag.
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All I can offer is a Bell curve. Most people fit in the first or second sigma. Beyond that, you have seriously fucked up people. Witness the Republicans / people of the “Heartland”. No offense intended.