Not 1 in a million, 1 in 6 billion

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2/28/05 - You know, it might be because I attended my friends wedding yesterday, or the fact that I met up with an interesting lady friend later in the evening but I want to voice my opinion about the deleterious nature of romance versus the practicality of realism, and the eradication of subconscious delirium.

I'd like to start with romance. Why do certain people like romance? I believe it's because people would like to believe that they are more important than they are realistically. Everybody has a different idea of what is romantic to them, but ultimately it comes down to a story book idea of desires and wishes (hence the popularity of romance novels). Ultimately, when someone gives someone flowers, or someone goes through extraordinary trouble to create an obscure scene for a marriage proposal, the person who receives this gift of humanity's creative nature feels important and their ego is boosted. Then this leads to other people who see this act and also desire to have their egos boosted. I do not deny that a person with low self-esteem could greatly benefit from this type of treatment, or it could be more destructive, for the benefit of mankind, for a person who is a self proclaimed egoist. The egoist is not in any need of an ego boost and might actually pass off the act of creativity with limited interest. I believe there is far less egoists in society, hence romance is popular as time and scheduling permits anyway.

I would like to discuss the non-survival aspect of romance. I am in no way trying to stifle man's creative nature. It demonstrates the beauty of consciousness and ideas of abstraction that separate man from the lower animals. I would like to discuss how romance works contrary to the evolution of the sub-conscious billboard,"Survive!". When a person becomes a "Romantic", they are looking for a mate who will make them feel more important than the practicality of reality permits. They desire to be treated "like a king/queen" from the mate they are looking for. This greatly narrows their window of standards making it more difficult to find someone to mate with. In this sense it is a naturally deleterious conscious process. It's probably a desire created by the rippling of religious social consciousness from the past since it strives to make the regularly unperceived a tangible reality. Ultimately it stifles mankind's general natural procreation process.

Note: At the year 1800 man's population was 1 Billion. It took 3.5 billion years of evolution to bring man to that level of population. Now in the 2000's, population is over 6 billion and is expected to rise to 10 billion by 2050. In this context romance becomes more practical as minimal population control.

I have always believed that man is not a monogamous animal by nature. Being a male myself I feel that there is too many natural urges to mate with as many women as possible. Naturally, I can't believe that man is biologically supposed to be monogamous. In light of the recent population boom due to industrialization and increased life span, monogamy and romance become useful in some senses. The problem is mankind’s desire to perpetuate destructive sub-conscious desires that are by no means practical or realistic.

Ultimately this discourse is just food for thought. The idea that I'm trying to convey is if mankind as a whole were more practical, earth could be a more peaceful place to live. If mankind lived by 1+1=2, instead of I wish 1+1=5 then there could be alot more rational volition and reasonable diplomacy. I do not desire to reduce mankind to a rational robot, if you've looked at my site you know I myself am highly creative, under my own biased standards of who I could've been..........hehe, but I think some people know how to control the useful side of creativity and can use it to their advantage and other people create delusion in their minds and become slaves to it because they can't control the engram they've created and enhanced. I believe that people need a reality check. They need to realize as individuals that they are not "one in a million" as the romantics would have you believe, but in all practicality they are "one in six billion". No one should feel belittled or insignificant for realizing this, for it is simple reality. As a person upon contemplation of these ideas of insignificance and humility (as perceived by a hopeful romantic) be satisfied and feel positive that you are one step closer to living realistically in your everyday existence and in every thing you do.

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