The Blue Chip Prospect

 A wise man once said ain't no rest for the wicked, but who are these wicked beings? Is it humans? It is the Homo Sapiens? The Neanderthals? Or it is not referring to beings, but rather systems? Perhaps civilization as we know it? As I continue to foster my recently acquired habit of reading, combined with my gullible impressionism, I am forced to ponder the cliched age old debate, Hobbs v. Rousseau. "Give us power, or everything is lost" v. "Give us liberty or everything is lost." And in my mind, this begs the question, what even is power? How do you put a measurement scale in such a bind that it can finally measure and assess power? If power is simply the semblance of control over an an individual, a group/community, events or situations, or even just simply emotions, then are any of us really powerful? Or are we merely influential? We put these impositions on reality to try and gain some semblance of control over our lives, but what happens when the Killer Ape Theory is finally put into practical situations? Situations like war, like disasters, floods, hurricane attacks, or for my younger audience, pandemics. The reason for bringing up the Killer Ape Theory is that civilization is that illusive metric we have imposed on our objective reality and minds just to feel powerful. So what happens when someone somewhere decides to play god and puts the theory to a test? Would Hobbs nod in agreement when the results appear, or will Rousseau applaud from above for being proven right posthumously? Would we succumb to our baser instincts or barbarianism and simply initiate the ideology of the alcoholic Mr. William Golding? Or will the father Silverfox, Dmitri Belyaev gain substantial backing for his studies in the tundra?