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The Unabating, Visceral, Unhesitating Violence of the World
A look at every animal species, right on up to our closest relative, the chimpanzee. One observation above all asserts itself, the unabating forever, unabating for ever and ever, visceral, unhesitating violence of the world. For a really, really long time, there was no life. It's just inert matter. Billions of years when just chemistry and physics matter. And then at some point, who knows why, ah, some of that inert matter started self organizing. That's what happened. Over time, these little buggers kept inventing new ways to kill and eat each other and new ways to avoid being killed and eaten. The creatures that are down there