Said All These Chicks, They Smoke These Things

Everyone has an agenda, and that agenda is their own welfare and well-being. That's cool and understandable, but it should be known that there is never an exception-- not the guy that was trying to scam me into paying for White Sox tickets 20 minutes ago, not the crackhead who begs for change or robs some lonely pedestrian, and not the noble priest who always finds an angle to perceive the object of his attention by looking down his nose.
I don't have a steady stream of thought right now. I'm really just trying to process everything that I have ever learned or experienced. It's tough, huh, and I'm only 23 years in.
I'm currently reading a book and it's very enlightening. It stresses the importance of remembering that the human race didn't simply pop up 10,00 years ago and begin building cities and maintaining farms because that was the natural inclination of the species. Rather, the work of patient learning and adapting throughout the previous 2 or 3 million years culminated in a particular lifestyle. But "culminated" is the wrong word, entirely, as the agriculture that spread rampantly 10,000 years ago did so because it was aggressive, not because it was "destined" to be successful. Essentially, this... I don't remember the word that was used. Here's how it basically breaks down: 10,000 years ago there were tons of tribes all over the world, each with their own customs and rituals that had been tested and tweaked through time. Also unique to each tribe was their approach to eating. Often, groups hunted and foraged and maybe had a little garden for tomatoes and chives or something. If food was waning, the group moved on. That said, there were no famines because people didn't insist on staying in a particular place.
Then came along a great idea, coined "totalitarian agriculture," which spread in a kind of forceful way. Well, maybe not forceful. Tricky, though. See, some people would settle down and guard their little farms. This probably spread because it became a hassle to try to forage amongst dirty looks from some farmer dude. I don't know. But it spread relatively quickly (as far as the ol' "grand scheme of things" is concerned) and, as can be seen today, only isolated peoples tucked just past the reach of modern man have been allowed to continue living in accordance to the laws of nature. As I have implicitly stated, the current form of agriculture lives in opposition to the way nature functions and, thus, will be killed off by Darwinism, applied. For instance, people like robbing cows of their milk before they eat them. That's cool, so foxes and wolves also like eating cows. It isn't desirable for cows to be in such high demand outside of the human race, so the easiest solution is to kill off potential predators. This is, in essence, "playing god."
So that's what's on my mind. I think I'll read Into the Wild, but I already have a good idea of how it ends.
Oh, and I met Erik Larson the other night. It's funny meeting someone your mind idolizes (to an extent) only to be reassured that they're merely flesh and bones and blood and hair. He seemed genuine (which is irrelevant) and I'm excited to read his new book.