Reflecting on the “Big Stuff” recently, I had to acknowledge that there might be something in the notion of “intelligent design”. Whilst no creationist myself, Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the survival of the fittest, although it may apply to Nature in general, I find deficient in explaining the evolution of the human species, in Britain anyway. For with regard to our own Nationals, it seems to me that it is the survival of the feckless which offers most evolutionary insight at the present time.
Take for instance the issue of Government-funded allowances, whether to cover the living expenses of Members of Parliament, or those of lesser citizens who rely, in ever increasing numbers it seems to me, upon state benefits to fund their lifestyles, regardless of whether or not they actually need such allowances. By contrast many hardworking people, including small business proprietors, are unable to access any kind of state support. Meanwhile, they observe that the life of the feckless is well-rewarded, and wonder whether they too should pursue it.
Is some “intelligent design” at work here, I wonder ? Or is it that the state benefit system, including its funding of MPs allowances, is just supremely stupid ?
The Witch of Worcester 