Xev, I wasn't trying to correct you on your 'original' quote - by saying that maybe it meant 'adaptable' instead of 'strong'.
I just meant to say that in reality - it seems that in our current state of perpetual change - only the adaptible survive - or 'do well' if you want to be specfic - although, there isn't really a difference.
Only the smart survive nowadays
On the outset, I would tend to agree with you - but in what form? It would seem to me that intelligence in the form of hunting skills would not help survival much anymore - as you can just go down the road to your nearest McDonalds.
If you're talking about a well rounded intelligence, with education and experience and 'common sense' - I'd agree with you more.
Depends on what form you want to survive in, distortion.
I wasn't aware there were really other ways to 'survive' in the colloquial sense of the word. Unless you're talking about 'surviving' through your influence in literature or as a prominent figure in history - I don't think there really is another way to survive as of yet. Just pass on your genes. Cryogenic freezing.. I guess :bugeye:
No offense, but being male, I don't think you understand strength. Men don't. Women don't either, really...so I guess I don't either. *Smiles*
I don't think anyone understands your strange generalizations, either
You know how Hobbes said that men's lives are nasty, brutish and short, in a state of nature? Women's lives are long and miserable. And to live a long and miserable life, one really has to be adaptable, to learn to submit to fate as the grass submits to the wind - always springing back up.
This seems kind of cynical to me - as if humans can't have genuinely fulfiling and enjoyable lives - as if it is necessarily always, constantly, a struggle against - entropy, really.
Of course people have to be adaptable to deal with change and continue to survive. I just mean to point out the it's the most adaptable people that do the best - Bill Gates seeing the potential for computers is an alright example. Ironic how we're talking about it
on a computer.
And, it was Bill Waterson, btw.
So I see adaptability as a strength in itself. Your thoughts?
p.s: The title itself is something I've always believed. I translated into German as an excersize, and realized that it makes a kick-arse title.
This is just semantics - really - I wouldn't say that adaptabilility and stength are synonomous - just similar. Just a matter of degree, I suppose.
The title is just a summarizing statement for natural selection as a function of evolution, really. :bugeye: It's true, I guess.
-Distortion
