Daniel and I bought Planet Earth to watch. I love watching it. I've never appreciated the big tv and HD so much till now. Learning about deserts, caves, mountains, fresh water, . . . and all the living organisms big and small that occupy those spaces. A few weeks ago I was over at a friends house stargazing and we wound up in a million different topics, mostly about man and nature, which brought us to the conclusion that mankind is so awfully out of place here. When looking at the animals of the wild, they blend in with nature, they survive--or try their best. Sometimes conditions change to give a given species a really hard time, like the fact that every year the ice melts a little quicker in Antarctica, so the polar bears have to swim a little further, getting more exhausted, making it more challenging for them to find or conquer their food, giving them a smaller chance of survival. Humans though, are so... different from everything else. Even if we did not have our intelligence to separate us from the animals, it's hard to imagine how we would survive. Especially if we were like the animals and had no clothes on. We would most definitely not survive in Canada. Due to our intelligence, however, we're successfully able to dominate the planet, our numbers growing more vast every year. There is no survival of the fittest to mankind... those who cannot run fast to avoid a predator have no need to run fast. The small, the weak, the injured, they all have a place to sit and become healthy, or to simply be without much risk at all. Due to human rights, all are equally entitled to life. But most of the people on Earth have arguably almost completely lost their instincts. We don't need them. Besides jumping when we're scared, you don't see much instinct in the human race. In fact, people, in the safety of the communities we have built, have had time to learn information, and lots of it. Vehicles, planes, skateboards were invented. Because we have no real place for us to be like the animals, fighting for survival, we create situations where we must "live on the edge". We jump out of planes and off of buildings, with a parachute that will hopefully rescue us. We drive very fast vehicles. We drive very fast motorcycles that with one mistake it's just you against the pavement. We play sports, fight each other in boxing matches, flaunt our colors in fashion displays.
It's actually pretty funny, and unreal. When you pay attention to how many ways people try to get in death's way because.. deep down, it's really our nature. We are alive to fight for our survival. So let us jump off a few more airplanes, buy a motorcycle, take up sports like the Skeleton. I suppose this is the best and the closest we can get to survival of the fittest in our comfortable safe intelligent world.