survival of the fittest

     I am stunned by the way that people view life...the masses believe everything is as it should be.  Yet they are always complaining about how things are.  They point to our leaders and say that we need to follow their rules to survive.  Yet they are constantly complaining about the men in Washington, their taxes and their laws that are increasingly more difficult to follow.

     I ask why some men are so rich they could support thousands of men for an entire lifetime whiile others are too poor to feed even themselves.  Most common response given?  "Well it's survival of the fittest, right?"  That statement is true but it does not explain why that situation exists.  See, survival of the fittest refers to natures way of making sure that the strongest and smartest survive, while the weak fall.  It is designed so that only the best of each species carries on its genes.  So let me break down what is wrong with using that statement to describe the billion dollar men vs. those in poverty.

1.  If this governmental system truly was survival of the fittest, those people in poverty would have already died off by now.  But the rich men keep the poor alive with welfare, charity and wage employment.  That allows the big money to continue to be so powerful.  If the richest men were the fittest, their goal would be to let the weak die off, so that the rich shall inherit the earth.  Does it make sense for us to support them?  Does the biggest baddest lion give any of his food to the weaker lion from the pride across the field?  Does he offer this food to other weaker lions to get them to do the killing while the biggest baddest lion secures most of the deer for his own pride, and then let the weaker lions that did the actual hunting feast on the mostly bare carcass?  We, the people are the weaker lions in this analogy.  We are killing the deer, dragging the deer to this big bad lion, waiting for him and his pride to finish eating so that we may enjoy some of the scraps afterward.  We killed that deer, so we don't need the big bad lion to convince us to go do it.  In fact if we can kill our own deer, and the biggest baddest lion can't kill his own deer, then maybe we should kill that lion instead of killing for him.  Can those billion dollar men kill their own deer?  Politicians get driven around, waited on hand and foot by maids, wardrobe, speech-writers, public relations, and when they need to, the police.

2.  If you look at those men at the top of country, politically and economically; you will realize that most of them could not fend you off if you attacked them.  They need police to secure their safety.  Could they fend off those police?  Even some of us could fend off the police.  Have you ever heard of a criminal getting away by shooting a cop?  So wouldn't nature's "survival of the fittest" want us, the big bad workers, the farmers, the builders, the teachers, the scientists and other problem solvers to inherit the earth?  After all, we are much more fit than those weak pathetic billion dollar men.