tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post9057267670321692901..comments2024-03-28T00:38:49.562-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: The Darwin ModifierAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-20337741467117677712017-09-09T18:09:27.629-07:002017-09-09T18:09:27.629-07:00Very good article problem these days are we are su...Very good article problem these days are we are subsidizing stupid so one they don't learn from their mistakes and two they are allowed to breed...linemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18180668439619161153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-42238122872350698762017-09-09T11:01:47.575-07:002017-09-09T11:01:47.575-07:00Some years back at my moonlighting bartender job, ...Some years back at my moonlighting bartender job, I worked with a nice young guy named Paul, single and no kids. He seemed reasonably intelligent and he was likable. Then one night he went out barhopping, got rip-roaring drunk, and then decided to get on his quite fast motorcycle and go blasting down the freeway at 130 mph. Lost control on a curve, came off the bike and went under a guardrail, which decapitated him. "Won't be contributing to the gene pool" was one of the first thoughts I had when I heard thw news.<br /><br />I think back about when I was young and did dangerous and/or stupid things, and why I never died or even got hurt. And the reason is, at some point FEAR would always kick in. Whenever I wanted to see how fast my souped up car would REALLY go, whenever I wanted to see how much of the margin of safety I could pare away when climbing or whitewater kayaking or skydiving, at some point along the continuum, fear and a natural concern for self preservation would always kick in and I would back off. One of my skydiving instructors used to say at least a little bit of fear is what keep you safe. It wasn't the skydiving student who was somewhat fearful that he worried about. It was the one who had no fear that he worried about, and sometimes would turn away.<br /><br />I thing these Darwin Award types are the ones who have little or no fear until it is too late. People make preparations when they know a hurricane is coming because there is at least a small amount of genuine fear operating within them, however deep down or controlled. This is normal and healthy. It is the ones who lack this small glowing ember of fear deep within them who are the ones we end up reading about in the paper.<br /><br />George Truehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352709031834067303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-80983413092029759492017-09-09T08:18:30.402-07:002017-09-09T08:18:30.402-07:00Enjoyable read as (mostly) always.
I suppose we&...Enjoyable read as (mostly) always. <br />I suppose we've all been in situations where the Darwin Modifier would apply. In a long life "God protects angels and fools" and "Pure blind luck I wasn't' killed" have come up more than once for me.<br />One thing I forgot to mention about my non-prepped friend is she spends her life traveling the uncharted places in the world. She's been charged by Silverbacks in Rwanda, built rafts to float miles down some Asian river to a village that's never seen a tourist. Traveled through most of the Australian outback in an old 4x4 for months on end and in general done things you and I never though of doing on 6 continents. She reminds me a lot of those Victorian explorers who charted the world for the rest of us. Her particular Darwin Modifier is perhaps +1.5.<br />Maybe she thinks a gas station will always have gas and water will always flow out the tap is based on her prior experiences. There's the world she lives in where things work and will work and the third world she travels to where nothing is taken for granted and she does a work around. <br />Course she has no clue how any of that comes about and how fragile those systems are.lorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011213166003657827noreply@blogger.com