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Survival of the Fittest Versus Mutual Aid

*Round One of an anticipated Twelve Round Bout* With Special Guest Referee: Pyotr Kropotkin And Everyone's Favorite Ring Girl: Leo Tolstoi Postproduction by: Herbert Spencer and Rupert Murdoch ---//--- I'm gonna toss you away To the crocs someday, - And that's when I'll say: "Try surviving through this!" "Without receiving my aid!" "If you think you're so 'fit' - Why not try to prove it?!" I'm sure you're gonna say: "Bu-bu-bu!" "But wait! " "I don't even know the difference between 'Darwin's theories on evolution' and 'Social Darwinism'!" - To which I'll likely refrain: "Yeah-yeah-yeah; That's what they always claim, When they have one foot stuck in a mouth And another foot bound for the grave..."

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Date: 11/27/2016 5:10:00 PM
I think I also see political and economic Darwinism here, and the suggestion that our evolutionary model is important to our enculturation; a kind of primal creation story, perhaps. Revolutionary material.
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