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Women and children first (Women and children first)īail sailor, Bail, Bail, Bail (Bail, bail, bail)īrace yourself, brace yourself (Brace yourself, Brace yourself)īrace yourself, brace yourself a twelve (Brace yourself a twelve)Īll hands on, all hands on (All hands on, all hands on)īlood sky every mornin’ (All hands on, all hands on deck) Poseidon’s on a mission (Brace yourself, brace yourself)Ĭome the gails, mind the sails (Mind the sails, mind the sails)Īll hands on, all hands on deck (All hands on deck) Shoulda seen the warnin’ (Coulda, shoulda) About to take on water.”īlood sky every mornin’ (All hands on deck, all hands on deck) Poseidon’s on a mission.’Bout to turn it up to eleven.” The dead know better, so listen to the letter The dead know better so listen to the letter.Įchoes and specters and ghosts of none the wiserĪpparitions each of bad decisions brush on by.Įlectric fuzzy haze of regrets and dreams denied Ignorant the gluttons, and the needy rush on by these messages from the ever after.

The paramount and pompous disregard the cipher The dead know better, so listen to the letter.Įchoes and specters and ghosts of none the wiser,Īpparitions each, of bad decisions brush on by.Įlectric fuzzy haze of regrets and dreams denied. Time to make it right, it’s how it’s gonna to be. Time to pay your dues, time to set you straight Watch you pay the toll right in front of me Time to make it right, it’s how it’s gonna to be Time to pay your due, time to set you straight. Watch you pay the toll right in front of me. Time to make it right, how it’s gonna to be. What’s your purpose here, whatcha hope to gain? Knocked the wind out of my romantic side. You speak like someone who has never been knocked the fuck on out. You speak like someone who has never been smacked in the fuckin mouth. With all that racket from your lips a flapping. Yes, that means we’re talking down to you. Such actions, such moments, such unconscious selfless decisions define what it is to be human.īitches receive stitches, trolls receive 86’s.Ĭan’t hold your shit or your tongue you gotta go.Īnd should you choose to react like an imbecile I speak of pure acts of selflessness: the mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle, the person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on an upper story, the man who can barely swim who dives into a lake to rescue a drowning stranger. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of cost-free cake. Every hour of every day, a man risks his life at a moment’s notice to save another. We are capable-as our ancestors were-of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness.

If anything, our problem-solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology and our ubiquitous modern conveniences.Īnd yet, despite our predisposition toward fear-driven hostility, toward what we anachronistically term “primitive” behavior, another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our makeup.

We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millennia. On the contrary, present-day humans are capable of the same self-destructive behavior, the same crimes against humanity, the same violent power struggles as our ancestors. We possess no significant physiological differences from the Cro-Magnons or the Neanderthals, nor does evidence suggest our tendencies toward the barbaric have lessened over time. In fact, Homo sapien sapiens-modern humans-share an inherited gene pool with the earliest hominids like Australopithecus who lived 2.5 million years ago. We imagine these peoples as ignorant, primitive, barbaric. Surely we are more sophisticated, more capable of reason than the hunter-gatherers of 13,000 BC, more civilized than the marauding Vikings of 1,000 years ago. If one should ask the average citizen whether or not they believe humans are more highly evolved than our ancient ancestors, they will more often than not express the belief that we are indeed far, far superior. We in the modern age operate under a dangerous misconception regarding our heritage.

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