redirecting reproduction

Historically population growth was a robust community goal, while genetic (replicable molecule code) reproduction was a robust individual goal. Hence incentives to marry & multiply were naturally selected.

There are now new opportunities for memetic (replicable idea code) expression, while the challenges of supporting even existing (let alone added) population are growing e.g. with soil depletion, global warming, etc. Therefore community-level health (e.g. measured by task-layer multiplicity) may be better served by redirecting evolved behaviors from their molecule-code focus toward an idea-code focus instead. N'est-ce pas?

pandemic year 2

If only folks could get that masks are the antidote and not the cause for shutdowns. Moreover, of course, that our collective opponent is a virus and not a subculture.

honorable traditions

 In the language of the wild west, and in the spirit of those ancient highway "Burma-Shave" signs:

• It's bad manners to bring
• a knife to a slugfest, or
• a pistol to a blade brawl.
• Thus healthy traditions die
• when guns are held by all.

binarize less unify more

 In the world of big ideas (not math or binary logic) the opposite of stupid is also stupid. Binarizng descriptions of social events (does/doesn't cause illness as opposed to a probability, cartoonification with party rather than individual identifications) can mitigate electronic media's tendency to polarize.