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In natural science, abiogenesis (pronounced /ˌeɪbaɪ.ɵˈdʒɛnɨsɪs/ ay-by-oh-jen-ə-siss) or biopoesis is the study of how biological life arises from inorganic matter through natural processes, and the method by which life on Earth arose. Most amino acids, often called "the building blocks of life", can...
"How did the Stock Mkt arise from all this?", was the question posed on Facebook.
Right. Mutations are experiments in viability. The Stock Mkt is one. Possibly it will fail in its current parasitic form, mutating into something less degenerative. The Earth and humans would be better for it.
In fact, there are now hundreds of millions of Stock Mkt offspring around the globe. They are called investors.
In the old days it was a "fight or flight" strategy of survival. Lately another option has arisen...join that which threatens to destroy. Thus Evil arises, feeding upon itself.
Fewer and fewer humans have the courage to "fight". And even fewer the courage to "flight". It is an endangered virtue.
Courage evolves into expediency. A Stock Mkt arises. Humanity stagnates in self-absorbtion. Pathogens seize the moment.
Wolves in sheepskin. Wickedness wears a smile. "Come in", said the spider to the fly.
And to dust we return.
