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When you drop your tyke off at Darwinian DayCare, he will be shunted into one of many groups determined by age and weight. The unsupervised groups are each free to roam around their own junglesque, self-contained ecosystem complete with age-appropriate predators.
Social development occurs much
more expediently, here at Darwinian DayCare, as the autonomous group of toddlers establish a social hierarchy, and each struggles for power.
Only through team-work can the children earn "Snack time". It will take near every one of them to over power their snack. Or protect their snack from competing predators, for that matter.
Your child will hone spatial skills as they negotiate the hazardous jungle terrain. They will be introduced to concepts such as gravity, kinetic energy and inelastic collisions in our many gorges and ravines.
Give your child the evolutionary boost s/he needs in today's competitive market, or graciously make way for those that can.
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[marked-for-tagline]: // complete with age-appropriate predators // |
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[Zen Tom], you seem to be annotating under the false pretense that enrollment would be voluntary. |
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I do, however, fail to see how this is not Darwinism. |
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Any hardship, whether it be an event such as an epidemic or the holistic enterprise of living, acts as a Darwinian catalyst. People do not survive. Period. Those whom are not as adept at survival are more prone to not surviving. |
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As to point # 2, you seem to be limiting the time-line to the day-care, only. (Of which I would be the first to admit is an oxymoron). Natural selection can not be contained in a building, to be experienced in small doses. Natural selection occurs across the whole species continuously. The "DayCare" is, tongue-in-cheek as it may be, just a catalyst; something juxtaposed to the medical advances that fervently work against natural selection. |
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Obviously, from having too much of an "Effect B" type economy, which allowed too much degenerate inbreeding... Such as how business regulators often retired from regulating, and then got hired by same companies they were previously overseeing. |
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Note that when the economy does eventually improve, most of the survivors of the current economy will be stronger and healthier than the average business was prior to the current recession. |
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Furthermore, when the economy grows, many of the new businesses will be "offspring" of other businesses -- in particular, of businesses which survived the recession. They'll inherit the many of the survivors' positive characteristics, and thus result in the next economic boom starting out with a healthy average population. |
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The fact is, cycling between economic booms and busts is inevitable, and we should see this as a Darwinian good thing. |
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Yes, [Zen Tom], the type B is beautiful and positive. The fact of the matter remains; As is in any biological system, balance is needed. |
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From my perspective, your yang has vastly over-powered my yin, in this modern world. |
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There is only so much of the world, and I personally feel that the mass of mankind depending on those resources has far surpassed the amount conducive to peak quality of life. |
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Assisted suicide would not be such a hot button if your utopia of type B progress was as pervasive as you claim it to be. Hell, people are trying to die. |
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There is a point in which so much effort is put into survival that survival is not worth the effort. |
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//Social development occurs much more expediently, here at Darwinian DayCare, as the autonomous group of toddlers establish a social hierarchy, and each struggles for power.//
Rather the opposite would be true, I suspect. By taking kids out of their natural environment (i.e. a society that is generally supervised by adults), you are nurturing an anti-social attitude. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is beside the point. To describe this concept as Darwinian though is completely wrong because you have already loaded the dice against normal development and adaptation. This is, of course, what education (whatever it's form) is intended to do, i.e. to provide society with intellectual tools which enable them to circumvent the vagaries of natural selection. |
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[Dr.Bob], did you not learn more *after* you where pushed from the nest? I most certainly did. |
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When people must depend on others for survival, social skills are nurtured. I am an anti-social bastard, myself, but when I'm deployed I step up my social skills. |
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Given enough time, everybody learns than fighting is counterproductive; that living in peace with your fellow man is the pinnacle of human achievement. ***However these lessons must be learned through experience to truly be appreciated*** |
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A positive role-model and parental guidance makes for a good foundation, but until a person figures it out for themselves, they are not really in possession of the underlying wisdom of their learned behavior. |
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//did you not learn more/
Nope, but I did learn lots of extra stuff. |
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//would be used as an excuse for lazy parents// |
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I was of the opinion that my idea, if implemented, would be used by horrible parents. I mean really, whats a guy got to do to get some bones around here? |
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I stand behind my philosophy that this planet has way too many humans on it, but the *idea* is entirely tongue-in-cheek. Lighten up, 21. |
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Having baby fight like rooster fight? Does this make you feel though boy or something? Wanna have a dual?? Let me know bro. |
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// Does this make you feel though boy or something? Wanna have a dual?? Let me know bro// |
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That's not even english... I went to correct your spelling of "tough" and "duel", but the sentences still don't make sense. You fail - at basic communication. |
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//You fail - at basic communication.// |
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Oh noo.. Now I have to jump into the Linguistic Selection Well; LSW. 'You are not a native english speaker you scum.. jump in the well!'.. Ahh, should have used MS Word to survive! Funny thing is most of the Midwesterners would have to jump too, if it were based on spelling! |
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//jump into the Linguistic Selection Well// |
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Your already there. It's called the halfbakery. |
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If you're wanting to knock Americans for poor grammar and spelling, you'd have better luck pointing your hypocritical finger at the south. I've lived in both, and I must say; The school system in the mid-west is very progressed and very effective. |
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//hypocritical finger at the south// |
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What! Mocking the cowboys, the true heros of America?! Well then you may have a point indeed. But although mid-west system may be progressed, it is still country-style compared to western education baby. |
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// //jump into the Linguistic Selection Well//
Your already there. It's called the halfbakery// |
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Aloha, what kind of an evolution is this that all you got to do is use MS Word to get selected? What a positive selection! Awesome skill! You wrote "you are" wrong by the way. |
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But kidding aside, they understood what I meant, they are just pretending they didn't. If I had written it in english, they would have pretended not knowing english: Como?? Que paso? Mi non-comprendro.. :(( |
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All I'm sayin is, to talk about evolution, you got to have balls first. Can't get away by letting the babies do the work! |
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//Mocking the cowboys, the true heros of America?!// |
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I said south, not west. As in Western? As in the movies with the cowboys? |
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// You wrote "you are" wrong by the way// |
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Yeah. That didn't get corrected by my spell checker. |
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//Can't get away by letting the babies do the work!// |
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I passed my Darwinian pop-quiz twice ... In Iraq. |
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So it's basically a Montessori program then? |
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