It is now well known that Charles Darwin
'stopped believing in God' in 1851, when Anne,
his beloved 11 yr old daughter, died of scarlet fever.
But when did his belief in society end?
I would suggest that his belief stopped like a broken watch
when he was goaded to publish 'On The Origin Of Species',
because of his awareness of his rival. His belief shrank
when he saw how his work generated disagreement,
as his society proved bound by the binary logic;
survival proves superiority vs extinction meant defeat
and only the fittest survive. Regardless of the idea
that hides in plain sight in Darwin's work
-that when any person dies, or a species dies back,
their decline is what makes way for the life that follows them.
Past matter had to decline for the life of all alive now
to share in the present, present matter will have to decline
for the life and matter of the future to have a present.
My biggest gift to the future will not be the life I have now,
which will be forgotten but the decaying matter out of which
new life will be built. Above all I don't want to be argued over.
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