I don’t know who actually compiles this information, but typically you see states ranked in various magazines and advertisements. They use criteria like best schools, lowest crime, happiness score, income level, etc…, so what if we jammed that up a might bit! Given the acrimony I think we should divvy up states based on another set of criteria: 1. all black, or all white, or all Asian. 2. Only libertarians allowed. 3. Higher knowledge required. 4. We don’t give a fark everyone is welcome! 5. Must enjoy working. 6. Likes to do nothing. Within this frame of criteria, each state would be ranked. They could never deviate from this set of rituals. Because this criteria reflects who you are and will become – based on your own choices.
There was a Star Trek episode wherein Captain Kirk was with his soldier guys on planet Q where warring was going on and The Capt in all his wisdom wanted to join the war. Then these wisemen appeared, wearing cloaks, floating somewhat, immune from assault of any kind – they were all elderly men with white beards. They couldn’t believe how barbaric humans were despite millennials of training.
You see, humans are barbaric. Life became via barbarism and has remained so without evolution. It never evolved out of our psyche. Man is stagnant – and something else is propelling us. We are the exact same creatures that existed 10,000 years ago. History is about WAR. That’s how it is defined; schoolbooks, literary books, nonfiction etc.. history is war. That’s what splashes the news headlines daily – everything is a WAR. And those guys in the robes have left us to our demise. Likely quite disgusted.
The amount of jeers from the grandstands for ‘Death’ is like a cartoon. They can’t really demand children and women be pummeled and squashed. Yet they do! Eyes wide in anticipation of the Blood… That would be another Star Trek episode wherein society was obedient until the clock struck midnight and all chaos let loose. Landrau struck the clock again at 6am and everyone became obedient slaves. Barbarism – inherent in the psyche. But.. not everyone’s psyche.
It seems to me that calling for bad wishes on another person or persons is not too far up on the evolutionary scale. Death threats are now a yawn. If we were to accept the muddle of history/0mythology, the civilizations of 3000 BC were a more cohesive family – not by training – but by inherent wisdom. The Biden administration wanting to return Americans to the life in 1800 is an interesting – reverse evolution.
I imagine reverse evolutions are quite common in history – wherein entire cultures or societies lose their knowledge and must start over in building back to what they used to know. A circular. And then a select few so very much – Tesla and Da Vinci come to mind – bring society back from the darkness. Incredibly ingenious men persons appear in the midst of a dark tie and everything changes. And BOOM – we are back baby!
And then the FBI and CIA just had to ruin the party. Stealing every written patent and using the military to match Tesla’s brain. They couldn’t do it! Any more than the Pharma industry could match Dr. Bradstreet’s brain – he cured cancer – using natural human proteins. “OFF YOU GO!” It seems like such a waste of life. Smell the roses – that sort of thing.
SO – this is my brain – it doesn’t get a lot of sleep and has a tendency to go to the far far lands where man has never been…