Intelligence rules mankind, but only up to a certain point. When some heavily-muscled, sadistic guy is in the process of gleefully kicking the living shit out of you, it doesn’t do you a whole lot of good to quote erudite verses of Shakespeare and to cite Einstein’s theories regarding the futility and illogic of violence and to invoke Mahatma Gandhi’s principles disparaging physical confrontation. That’s where virility enters the picture and there is no intellectual equivalent for said, nor will there ever be so long as natural resources are fixed while the population of ANY living organism—doesn’t matter one bit how sophisticated and advanced that organism might be—is not. Primal physicality rules in the beginning and, most unfortunately, in the extreme end as well.
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