Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
For most people, carp isn't just garbage fish - it's an invasive species.
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.
Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.
It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.
