Back to the Primordial Soup and Loving It!

There was a young Muslim called Ali,
Who had six Muslim friends, all called Ali.
The group made a pact,
And decided to act,
And blew themselves up in Thames Valley.

Right, a none too controversial start today. No stereotypes or sweeping assumptions of people being made whatsoever. Good, then we can be getting back to normal.

I hate Big Brother. So much so that I always watch the first program to find out what kind of freaks they have in this time, and then promptly hate myself for doing so. But this time around, I rather like it becuase, perhaps unintentionally, they've managed something rather clever.

Just to fill in some background before I explain further, Celebrity Big Brother has been drawn into a racism row because a group of thick, pig-ignorant, talentless munting 'women' have taken a dislike to a beautiful, intelligent, talented Indian actress. And of course racism is the first assumption in our modern politically correct world rather than, ooh let me think, bitchy jealousy.

Anyway, back to the point. Big Brother exists to poke fun at, and make spectacles of, the most stupid parts of society. It is not, as some overpaid, highly-misguided psychologists may claim, an important social experiment. Typically this consists of getting idiots to make idiots of themselves; not a massive challenge. However, this time round, it has managed to poke fun at the idiocy of society as a whole, in fact the whole world! We have UK and Indian diplomats talking of a "worsening diplomatic crisis" over ignorant comments made by people who don't matter on a show that nobody is watching. That Big Brother has managed to cause this much fuss by getting a fat, ugly chav, the stupidest footballer's girlfriend in the world, a dismally failed, manufactured popstar, and the chav's horrendous mother to not like someone much better than them in all respects just shows how stupid the world has become. The biggest irony is that there's no racism in it anyway, ignorance of culture maybe, but not real racism. They're just being mean. We all have to put up with that at some stage in our lives.

The very idea, or at least the modern day interpretation, of racism is racist. I can call a Welshman a sheep-rapist, a Scotsman a tight-fisted Scottish twat, a Frenchman a cheese-eating arms-in-the-air surrender monkey, a German a war-mongering sausage-fiend, and an American an American cunt (a disturbingly popular term in modern day supposedly tolerant British society) and no-one bats an eyelid. However, I can't call an Egyptian a canal-stealing camel-jockey, an Iranian an anti-semitic rag-head, a Nigerian a work-shy slave-descendent, or a Palestinian a terrorist without being banged in irons and called "the worst racist since Hitler" by the Guardian newspaper. My point isn't particularly that we should say these things to people, they're neither nice nor necessary; my point is where do you draw the line? If I can insult a Spaniard but not a Morroccan, isn't that in itself, racist?

Now of course, we have the typical response of effigy-burning as protestors in India take to the streets. Why the fuck do they bother? Don't they have better things to do, like work, or blogging. And why is effigy burning an instant reponse to everything these days. Your religion's being mocked; burn an effigy. An actress you're a fan of is bullied on TV; burn an effigy. What I want to know is, why does no-one look out for the little guy just trying to may their way in life causing minimum fuss and trying to make some small contribution? I don't remember Harvard or Oxbridge coming out and burning effigies of well known idiots when I was bullied for being good at maths at school.

Everything's geared towards protecting the stupid from themselves: "this freshly made coffee may be hot", "nut allergy sufferers should not eat these peanuts", and "going out in the rain may make you wet". We're eliminating natural selection in society and, as such, in danger of eliminating society itself. Useless people are outbreeding the capable; a situation which, if continued, will spell the downfall of civilization far before a bit of Carbon Dioxide will do a damn thing. It's a nice little trick of evolution to prevent a single species becoming over-dominant:

- A species becomes so dominant/widespread/civilised that survival of the fittest is no longer a driving pressure.
- Either the weakest are still so above other species, they have few natural dangers, or there are just so damn many of them that they all breed with minimal competition, or they become so nice and civilised that the strong feel a moral obligation to protect the weak.
- Whatever happens, the pressures that would eliminate the weakest from the gene pool are removed and forward evolution stops. It only takes a small change (political correctness, compensation culture, and the welfare state are excellent examples from everyday experience) to tip the balance of survival towards the weaker members of the population and to push evolution into reverse.

It's a subtle bugger that evolution. But this is a good thing, we wouldn't want to keep evolving. If watching sci-fi has taught me anything it's that highly evolved species are always really fucking boring. They walk around all serene, spirtual, and arrogant. And they've always got huge foreheads! My forehead is big enough already thank you very much; damn receeding hairline. I'll stick to laughing at Jade Goody being an ignorant thug, at people passing out through excitement at Robbie Williams' concerts, and at those who manage to injure themselves with a pillow.

I like the status quo (please note that I said THE status quo, not Status Quo).